Dr Buck Ruxton & The Jigsaw Murders

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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By the 1930s forensic police work had just begun to come into its own. The late 1920s had introduced advancements that had seen investigations using more than simple fingerprint evidence to solve crime and in America the FBI’s technical crime lab would firmly establish itself over the first half of the decade. Both in the UK and the USA experts from outside of the police or detective agencies were routinely drafted in to help on cases and in the UK there were none more qualified than the professors in the medical universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. In 1935 a grim discovery in a rural Scottish town opened a sensational case that would see the country's finest experts challenged to not only help the police to solve a murder case, but to pioneer multiple new forensic techniques along the way, creating innovative methods that would go on to be used right up to the modern day. SOURCES Craddock, Jermey (2021) The Jigsaw Murders. The History Press, Cheltenham, UK Dundee Courier (1935) Moffat Crime: Devil’s Beef Tub Searched. Dundee Courier, Mon 07 Oct 1935. Dundee, UK. Aberdeen Press and Journal (1935) Grim Discovery Made in Ravine. Aberdeen Press and Journal, Mon 30 Sep 1935. Aberdeen, UK. Evening Sentinel (1935) Moffat Ravine Mystery. Evening Sentinel, 01 Oct 1935. Staffordshire, UK. Aberdeen Press & Journal (1935) Nurse Girl Disappears. Aberdeen Press & Journal, 09 Oct 1935, Aberdeen, UK. Dundee Courier (1935) Mr Buck Ruxton Charged With Murder. Dundee Courier, 14 Oct 1935. Dundee, UK. ------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	By the 1930s, forensic police work had just begun to come into its own.
0:07.1	The late 1920s had introduced advancements that had seen investigations using more than
0:11.7	simple fingerprint evidence to solve crime, and in America, the FBI's technical crime
0:16.9	lab would firmly establish itself over the first half of the decade.
0:21.4	Both in the UK and the USA, experts from outside of the police or detective agencies were routinely
0:27.2	drafted in to help on cases, and in the UK, there were none more qualified than the
0:32.2	professors in the medical universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
0:36.6	In 1935, a grim discovery in a rural Scottish town opened a sensational case that would
0:42.9	see the country's finest experts challenged to not only help the police to solve the
0:47.4	murder case, but to pioneer multiple new forensic techniques along the way, creating innovative
0:53.2	methods that would go on to be used right up to the modern day.
0:58.2	This is Dark History, and the facts are worth some fiction.
1:07.6	Hello and welcome to Dark History, season 7, episode 4.
1:11.5	I'm Ben, your host as always, it's good to be back.
1:14.9	I think we can just jump straight into it this week, especially as this episode I think
1:18.8	is a little longer, so we'll just jump straight into it and get going.
1:23.1	This episode is called Dr. Buck Ruckston and the Jigsaw murders.
1:30.8	Dr. Buck Ruckston sat back in the large, red velvet winged back chair surrounded by the
1:35.9	lavish decorations of his ostentatious drawing room.
1:39.8	Somewhere over the top, the doctor's taste in decor was a rich blend of dark, hardwood
1:44.6	veneers and deeply coloured orientalism with a host of garish touches.
1:50.1	The ceiling above his head was painted in thick, midnight blue and broken up with gold
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