EPISODE 13: A Bad Wrap
In this week’s episode, Kate and Paul take us to 1935 Great Britain to discuss the murders of two women whose bodies were found floating in a creek. The investigation gets aided by some very unusual sources en route to solving a rather grisly case.
Sources:
“Notable British Trials: Buck Ruxton” by R. H. Blundell
https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.173614/2015.173614.Trial-Of-Buck-Ruxton_djvu.txt
“Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body” (National Institute of Health)
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/visibleproofs/galleries/cases/ruxton.html
“The casebook of forensic detection: how science solved 100 of the world's most baffling crimes” by Colin Evans
https://archive.org/details/casebookofforens00coli/page/n3/mode/2up
“The chilling story of Jigsaw Killer Dr Buck Ruxton - and the Manchester trial that made history” by Vickie Scullard (Manchester Evening News)
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/chilling-story-jigsaw-killer-dr-18614097
“A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes” by M. Lee Goff
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/g/goff-fly.html
“Solving Puzzles with Body Parts as the Pieces” by Amanda Schaffer (New York Times) 2006.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/science/solving-puzzles-with-body-parts-as-the-pieces.html
100, 75, 50 Years Ago (International Herald Tribune via New York Times) 2011.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/opinion/14iht-oldmar14.html
“The Ruxton Murders – 1935” (Glasgow Police Museum)
http://www.policemuseum.org.uk/crime-casebook/interesting-cases/the-ruxton-murders-1935/
“Crime Stories Extended: The Ruxton murders which needed the help of Glasgow officers” by Norman Silvester (Glasgow Times) 2021.
“Buck Ruxton” (The Forensics Library)
http://aboutforensics.co.uk/buck-ruxton/
“‘Jigsaw murders’: The gruesome case of a jealous GP” by Dean Ruxton (The Irish Times) 2016.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/jigsaw-murders-the-gruesome-case-of-a-jealous-gp-1.2759634
“PHYSICIAN IN BRITAIN SENTENCED TO HANG” (New York Times) 1936
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/03/14/88641568.html?pageNumber=8
“Why do Domestic Violence Victims Return to their Abusers?” by Wendy L Patrick, PhD (Psychology Today)