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In September 1935, police recovered 70 parcels containing body parts from under a bridge in Gardenholm Linn near Moffat, Scotland. Experts would have to reassemble the remains to prove that they belonged to Isabella Ruxton and Mary Jane Rogerson, two women who’d disappeared from Lancaster, England, where they lived with a popular, well-respected doctor named Buck Ruxton. Well, that was his name now…

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Episode Source List:
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/visibleproofs/galleries/cases/ruxton.html 

https://www.policemuseum.org.uk/crime-casebook/interesting-cases/the-ruxton-murders-1935/

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-64939242 

https://www.historic-uk.com/cultureuk/birth-of-forensics-buck-ruxton/

https://moffatmuseum.co.uk/buck-ruxton-1899-1936/ 

https://moffatmuseum.co.uk/the-discovery-of-body-parts-in-moffat/

https://moffatmuseum.co.uk/the-investigation/

https://moffatmuseum.co.uk/identification-of-the-bodies/ 

https://moffatmuseum.co.uk/identification-of-the-skulls/ 

https://moffatmuseum.co.uk/the-story-in-moffat/ 

https://moffatmuseum.co.uk/the-story-in-detail/ 

https://moffatmuseum.co.uk/the-story-of-the-murders/ 

https://moffatmuseum.co.uk/press-coverage-and-cuttings/ 

https://moffatmuseum.co.uk/trial/ 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6v8eg79j4o 

https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/collections/medicalhumanities/forensic%20medicine/casefiles/drbuckruxton1935/ 

https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/national/search-for-families-of-lancasters-dr-buck-ruxton-murder-victims-after-skulls-find-4873313 

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/jigsaw-murders-the-gruesome-case-of-a-jealous-gp-1.2759634 

https://www5.open.ac.uk/research-projects/making-britain/content/buck-ruxton 

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12117729.Murder_most_foul/ 

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/chilling-story-jigsaw-killer-dr-18614097 

“Buck Ruxton: The Jigsaw Murders. Murder Maps. Season 4, Episode 3. 2019. 

https://www.lancaster.gov.uk/sites/museums/explore-online/discover-our-collection/ruxton-diary 

https://mail.murderpedia.org/male.R/r/ruxton-buck.htm 

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/murder-maggots-forensic-entomology.html 

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/indias-independence/