Acknowledgements and Thanks

1The Natural History Museum for the loan of The Ruxton Maggots
2Moffat & District Community Council for Financial Support to bring the Ruxton Maggots from London
3Dr. Erica McAlister (Natural History Museum) for her specialist advice and her stimulating Talk at Moffat Academy
4Joe Craig (ex-Police Scotland) for the loan of much material & images for the Exhibition and his steadfast support
5Dumfries & Galloway Heritage Service (Anne Rinaldi) for Exhibition material and photographs
6Lancaster Museum for access to Ruxton’s Diary
7The family of Sergeant Robert Sloan for information and support
8Muriel Lammie for the loan of family archive material for the Exhibition
9Ralph Fairweather for information about his father PC James Fairweather
10Eric Howarth for the copy of the Prison Letter
11Emilio Dicerbo for his local archive information
12Getty Images, Glasgow University Peter McDermott, James T M Towill, Lancaster Constabulary for images used in the Exhibition
13Moffat Museum’s Volunteers, without whom we could not put on the Exhibition at all.

References

1Medico-Legal Aspects of the Ruxton Case – Glaister and Brash (Published by E & S Livingstone 1937)
2Trial of Buck Ruxton – Edited by R.H. Blundell & G. Haswell Wilson (Published William Hodge & Co Ltd 1937)
3Crime and Punishment, Accident and Disaster. Moffat Miscellany Vol 2 by Jim Storrer (Published by Jim Storrer 2009)
4Ruxton: The First Modern Murder – Tom Wood (Published by Ringwood 2020)
5Written in Bone – Sue Black (Published by Penguin Random House 2022)
6The Jigsaw Murders. The True Story of The Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics – Jeremy Craddock (Published the History Press 2021)  
7Heritage Service, Ewart Library, Dumfries – Photographic Archive