In this episode I explore the case of a Buck Ruxton who tried to run from his past, changing his identity, and presenting the image of a respectable doctor, yet behind the façade was a man consumed by jealousy, whose paranoid mind would drive him to murder.

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episode resources


Notable British Trials TRIAL OF BUCK RUXTON EDITED BY R. H. Blundell Barnstcr-at-Law AND G. Haswell Wilson, M.D. Professor of Pathology at the .University of Birmingham

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

https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/buck-ruxton-lancaster-surgeon-who-16859672#
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/chilling-story-jigsaw-killer-dr-18614097
http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/buck-ruxton
https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/retro/lancasters-jigsaw-murders-pieced-together-evidence-649701
Dundee Courier - Monday 14 October 1935
Dundee Courier - Wednesday 06 November 1935
The Scotsman - Monday 02 March 1936
https://galton.org/fingerprints/books/wilton/Wilton-1957-ruxton.pdf
https://ia902908.us.archive.org/5/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.173614/2015.173614.Trial-Of-Buck-Ruxton_text.pdf