Ruxton outside his home in Dalton Square, Lancaster, c. 1934
Born
Buktyar Rustomji Ratanji Hakim
(1899-03-21)21 March 1899
Bombay, British India
Died
12 May 1936(1936-05-12) (aged 37)
HM Prison Manchester Manchester, England
Other names
The Savage Surgeon
Occupation
Physician
Criminal status
Executed 12 May 1936
Children
3
Motive
Jealousy (Isabella Ruxton)
Eyewitness elimination (Mary Jane Rogerson)
Conviction(s)
Murder
Criminal charge
Murder
Penalty
Execution by hanging
Partner(s)
Isabella Ruxton (née Kerr)
Details
Victims
Isabella Ruxton Mary Jane Rogerson
Date
15 September 1935
Country
United Kingdom
Location(s)
Lancaster, Lancashire
Date apprehended
13 October 1935
Imprisoned at
HM Prison Manchester
Buck Ruxton (born Bukhtyar Chompa Rustomji Ratanji Hakim; 21 March 1899 – 12 May 1936) was an Indian-born physician convicted and subsequently hanged for the September 1935 murders of his common-law wife, Isabella Ruxton (née Kerr), and the family housemaid, Mary Jane Rogerson, at his home in Lancaster, England. These murders are informally known as the Bodies Under the Bridge[1] and the Jigsaw Murders, while Ruxton himself became known as The Savage Surgeon.
The case became known as the "Bodies Under the Bridge" due to the location, near the Dumfriesshire town of Moffat in the Southern Uplands of Scotland, where the bodies were found. The case was also called the "Jigsaw Murders" because of the painstaking efforts to re-assemble and identify the victims and determine the place of their murder.[2] Ruxton himself earned the title of "The Savage Surgeon" due to his occupation and the extensive mutilation he inflicted upon his victims' bodies.[3]
The murders committed by Buck Ruxton would prove to be one of the United Kingdom's most publicised murder cases of the 1930s. The case itself is primarily remembered for the innovative forensic techniques employed to identify the victims[4] and to prove that their murders had been committed within the Ruxton household.[5]
^Whittington-Egan 1992, p. 139.
^"The Buck Ruxton "Jigsaw Murders" Case". NLM. nlm.nih.gov. 3 December 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
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