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Buck Ruxton & the

Jigsaw Murders

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Moffat, Scotland, 1935

Packages found in river

Numerous body parts

wrapped in newspaper

Moffat

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Questions

How many bodies?

Who were they?

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Newspaper wrappings

Two female bodies

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Morecambe

Special edition

of Morecambe

newspaper

Answers

Police contacted

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Mrs.” Ruxton

& her maid

Moffat

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Skeletal remains

Flesh and distinguishing

features removed

How to identify the body?

Face

mutilated

Fingers

removed

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Identifying the bodies

Photographs of the women

Look at the angles the women posed in

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Identifying the bodies

Bodies proved to be

Mrs. Ruxton & her maid

Buck Ruxton arrested

Superimposed

the two photos

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Other evidence

Bloodstains in the

Ruxton house

Ruxton claimed innocence

Convicted of murder

Jury did not believe claim

Buck Ruxton

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Other evidence

Controversial case

Photographs not good

enough as evidence?

Buck Ruxton confessed

Validated technique

Buck Ruxton