Who was Robert Black and what was his cause of death?
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Robert’s time as a lorry driver taught him how to hide his victim’s bodies. ROBERT Black was a serial child murderer and rapist, who is known to have killed four girls but continues to be linked to more cases. His horrifying crime spree will be explored in the Channel 5 documentary series The Child Snatcher: Manhunt.
![[ Robert Black is believed to have killed at least four girls]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/newspress-collage-92oo5fn97-1737644566332.jpg?1737645188&strip=all&w=300)
Robert Black was born on April 21, 1947, in Grangemouth. His birth mother put him up for adoption and moved to Australia, leaving him to be taken in by foster parents. When his foster parents passed away, he moved between care homes where he suffered horrendous sexual abuse.
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In 1963, when he was 16-years-old, he was charged with lewd and libidinous behaviour after luring a seven-year-old girl into an air raid shelter before sexually assaulting her. Black never married and had only one known girlfriend called Pamela Hodgson, who broke up with him because of his “unusual sexual demands”.
![[ Jennifer Cardy was nine years old when she was murdered]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/newspress-collage-kvu6fdjyt-1737644618441.jpg?1737645009&strip=all&w=300)
Once he was allowed to live independently again, Black moved to London where he became a delivery driver. He drove across the country delivering posters and billboard adverts, a job which detectives would later say helped him to dispose of his victim's bodies.
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Black was convicted of murdering four children but is suspected of killing many more. While he was alive, Black was found guilty of murdering four schoolgirls across the UK. Detectives say, however, that number could be as high as 18 after new evidence was found which links him to more than a dozen more murders across the UK and Europe.
![[ Caroline Hogg's body was hidden hundreds of miles from her home]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/newspress-collage-j2pjid2wh-1737645305218.jpg?1737645336&strip=all&w=300)
