Age: 27
Sex: female
Date: 7 Apr 1983
Place: Gypsy Brae, Granton
Sheila Anderson was run over multiple times at Gypsy Brae in Granton on 7 April 1983.
She was known to frquent the red-light dockland are of Leith and Granton.
It was thought that she might have been picked up by a kerb crawler.
The police said they were loking for a Rover car with a GB sticker on the boot that was seen in the area.
Her body was found by two CB radio enthusiasts on a track just before midnight and she was taken to hospital where she died soon after.
Sheila Anderson had been seen alive about 30 minutes before by police at 11.25pm outside Lindean House on Commercial Street.
A few hours later her shoes and handbag were found at a car park in East Lothian. It was noted that her underwear was nover found.
She had lived in Drylaw and was known to have left her home at about midday and to later go to the Willie Muir pub in West Granton at about 7.30pm.
She had had two children but had left them and had been a drug addict at the time of her murder.
It was known that she would become argumentative with her clients and it was thought that she might have argued with a client and that he might have run her over in an effort to get away without paying. it being noted that it wouldn't have been the first time that she had stood in front of a car to stop it driving away.
It was also thought that she might heave either lefpt out of or been pushed out of a moving car.
Red paint was found on her body, indicating that the car that hit her had been red.
In 2009 DNA evidence was recovered from some of the evidence, but the DNA profile wasn't in the database.
