BBC - Great Crimes and Trials Series 3 Set 1 (1995) Part 12 Buck Ruxton The Ravine Bodies Mystery

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Part 12 Buck Ruxton The Ravine Bodies Mystery

The discovery of body parts in a lonely Scottish river began a fascinating trail of detection. This led to a doctor who dismembered his wife and his children's nursemaid. In the 1930s, Dr Buck Ruxton, the Savage Surgeon, almost got away with the brutal double killing known as the Jigsaw Murders. On the morning of 29 September 1935, a young woman glanced over an old stone bridge to find the horrifying sight of a partially decomposed human arm protruding from a package. The package contained the remains of two women, who had been extensively and skillfully mutilated in an attempt to obliterate any forensic evidence that could identify them, and thus, the murderer. The women had been dismembered, their body parts wrapped in newspaper and clothing. Because investigators had to piece together the corpses, the case came to be known as the Jigsaw Murders. Despite killer's efforts, with the aid of anatomists, police were able to literally piece together the clues in the victims' bodies and finally home in on the 'Savage Surgeon' who murdered them Buck Ruxton. Investigators were able to gain access to the Ruxton home where traces of blood and human tissue were found in the bathroom. They also matched fingerprints from one of the bodies to prints left on Mary’s possessions. On 12 May 1936, Ruxton was hanged for the double murder of Isabella Kerr and Mary Rogerson.

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