Pathologist Reports Fiancé for Cyclist Death Cover-Up

Dr. Caroline Muirhead, a forensic pathologist from Glasgow, Scotland, learned shortly after her engagement in November 2020 that her fiancé, Alexander "Sandy" McKellar, had struck and killed cyclist Tony Parsons with his vehicle three years earlier and buried the body with his twin brother Robert on the Auch Estate in the Scottish Highlands.

Muirhead met McKellar, a gamekeeper on the 28,200-acre estate near Bridge of Orchy, through Tinder in early October 2020. Their relationship progressed rapidly from a first date on the estate to a proposal after about two months. McKellar confessed the incident during preparations for a Christmas visit to Muirhead's family home in Glasgow. He said that on September 29, 2017, while driving drunk on the A82 road in Argyll after a night out, he hit Parsons, a 63-year-old retired Royal Navy officer, grandfather, cancer survivor, and charity cyclist on a 100-mile route. Instead of seeking help, the brothers returned, collected the body and bicycle, and buried Parsons in a bog on the estate used for animal carcasses.

An autopsy later revealed Parsons suffered severe blunt force trauma to his ribs, pelvis, and spine, and evidence suggested he...