When Caroline Muirhead’s boyfriend of just a few weeks suggested they get married, the then 29-year-old pathologist knew it was something of a whirlwind, but she was ready to seize the day.
‘I had this devil-may-care attitude of “What’s the worst that can happen?” ’ she recalls of the heady romance.
Now, more than five years on, she knows all too well what the worst looks like: within days of that proposal in November 2020, Alexander McKellar, the statuesque and handsome Scottish gamekeeper for whom Caroline had fallen head over heels, had unburdened himself of a deadly secret.
He confided that, three years earlier,
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