Edinburgh Jigsaw Murder victims laid to rest 90 years on after appeal finds family

Two women have finally been laid to rest 90 years after they were murdered.

Headlines were made in 1935 as the killings were referred to as the jigsaw murders . Their bodies were found in Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway, after they were killed in Lancaster.

Decades later, the remains of Isabella Ruxton and Mary Rogerson were discovered in an Edinburgh University storeroom.

The case broke new ground in forensic science when Edinburgh University helped build evidence against Dr Buck Ruxton, who was hanged for his wife's murder.

The BBC reports the university uncovered the women's skulls and some bones in its archive and located their families following the public appeal last year.

The university chose not to search for the families privately, because it was not known whether Isabella