Buck Ruxton - the “jigsaw murders”. There were only seven hangings in 1936
Buck Ruxton - the “jigsaw murders”. There were only seven hangings in 1936, but the one case really made the headlines that year was that of Dr. Buck Ruxton, which was one of the first instances of new forensic techniques playing a major role in securing a murder conviction in Britain. Buck Ruxton was born Bukhtyar Rustomji Rantanji Hakim in Bombay, India on the 21st of March 1899. He qualified there as a doctor before emigrating to Edinburgh in 1927 where he took a post graduate course in medicine and in 1930 set up practice as a GP at 2 Dalton Square, Lancaster. He changed his name by deed poll to Buck Ruxton around this time. Whilst in Edinburgh he had met and took as his common law wife, 34 year old Isabella Kerr whom he married in 1930 and the couple had three children. He was a popular young doctor in Lancaster. Their relationship was somewhat tempestuous as he was very jealous of her and accused her of having affairs. She had reported him to the police for assaulting her