AN infamous double murder case solved by pioneering Scottish forensic experts is to be turned into a TV drama. The series will tell the story of Dr Buck Ruxton who murdered his wife and maid and scattered their bodies in Moffat, Dumfriesshire, in September 1935.
The case became known as 'The Jigsaw Murders' after police later discovered 70 body parts nearby including two severed heads.
Teeth and fingerprints had been removed by the killer to prevent identification.Suspicion fell on Dr Buck Ruxton, of Lancaster, whose Scottish wife Isabella, and their maid, Mary Rogerson, had been reported missing by their families.It was a landmark case for forensic science and the first in which insects helped solve a crime.Scientists from Edinburgh and
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