Season 5 - Episode 3

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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