DESCRIPTION:
Red stains on the carpet, red stains on your knife, oh, Dr Buck Ruxton, you murdered your wife. The nursemaid saw you and threatened to tell, oh, Dr Buck Ruxton, you killed her as well…
— Lancashire nursery rhyme, parody of the song ‘Red Sails in the Sunset’, latter half of the 1930s
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COURT DOCUMENTS and information from the following news organisations and magazines were referenced in this episode: Aberdeen Press and Journal, Portsmouth Evening News, Birmingham Daily Gazette, Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, Hull Daily Mail, Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, The Scotsman, Western Daily Press, Western Morning News, Yorkshire Evening Post, Sunday Mirror, Daily Herald, Dundee Evening Telegraph, Leeds Mercury, Sunday Sun (Newcastle), Gloucestershire Echo, Coventry Evening Telegraph, Derby Daily Telegraph, Leeds Mercury, Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Shepton Mallet Journal, Nottingham Evening Post, Sheffield Independent and ‘Murder Casebook’ Magazine.
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MUSIC:
September by Kai Engel
Glimpse of Eternity by Meydän
Cobweb Morning by Kai Engel
Great Expectations by Kai Engel
Lurking Shadows by Myuu
Maestro Tlakaelel by Jesse Gallagher
Gaia in Fog by Dan Bodan
No 8 Requiem by Esther Abrami
Blue Feather by Kevin MacLeod
Please wake up by Meydän
Chalet by Meydän
Doll Dancing by Puddle of Infinity
Sergey Cheremisinov by Sleepwalker V
All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
REFERENCES:
NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES
Aberdeen Press and Journal - Wednesday 9 October 1935
Portsmouth Evening News - Wednesday 9 October 1935
Birmingham Daily Gazette - Saturday 12 October 1935
Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Saturday 12 October 1935
Hull Daily Mail - Saturday 12 October 1935
Portsmouth Evening News - Saturday 12 October 1935
Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Saturday 12 October 1935
The Scotsman - Saturday 12 October 1935
Western Daily Press - Saturday 12 October 1935
Western Morning News - Saturday 12 October 1935
Yorkshire Evening Post - Saturday 12 October 1935
Sunday Mirror - Sunday 13 October 1935
Birmingham Daily Gazette - Monday 14 October 1935
Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Monday 14 October 1935
The Scotsman - Monday 14 October 1935
Aberdeen Press and Journal - Tuesday 28 January 1936
Daily Herald - Tuesday 28 January 1936
Dundee Evening Telegraph - Saturday 1 February 1936
Leeds Mercury - Tuesday 4 February 1936
Sunday Sun (Newcastle) - Sunday 23 February 1936
Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 24 February 1936
Gloucestershire Echo - Monday 24 February 1936
Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Monday 24 February 1936
Gloucester Citizen - Monday 24 February 1936
Lincolnshire Echo - Monday 24 February 1936
Daily Herald - Wednesday 26 February 1936
Gloucester Citizen - Friday 28 February 1936
Nottingham Evening Post - Friday 28 February 1936
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 29 February 1936
Sunday Mirror - Sunday 1 March 1936
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Monday 2 March 1936
Derby Daily Telegraph - Monday 2 March 1936
Leeds Mercury - Monday 2 March 1936
Hull Daily Mail - Monday 2 March 1936
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 2 March 1936
Shepton Mallet Journal - Friday 1 May 1936
Nottingham Evening Post - Saturday 2 May 1936
The Scotsman - Monday 4 May 1936
Sheffield Independent - Tuesday 12 May 1936
DIGITAL ARTICLES
http://aboutforensics.co.uk/buck-ruxton/
https://virtual-lancaster.net/listing/virtual-tour-%E2%80%94-dr-buck-ruxton%E2%80%99s-house-murder
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/life-what-to-do-with-a-house-of-horrors-1526451.html
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Lancaster_Poor_Law_Union,Lancashire
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Parsi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/articles/2008/04/22/history_buck_ruxton_feature.shtml
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125087261/mary-jane-rogerson/photo
MAGAZINES
Murder Casebook [Issue 48]
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