In The Devil's Beef Tub
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Episode 159 takes us once again to the British Isles, our first excursion into Scotland with the story of a physician (some accounts call him a gynecologist) accused of dismembering his wife and the nanny of their children, scattering their parts in a deep bowl-like valley near the town of Moffat, so named as it was known as a good spot for hiding stolen cattle.
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| 0:37.2 | In the devil's beef tub, Buck Ruckston's and indignation. In the Devil's Beef Tubb, Buck Ruckston's double jigsaw puzzle murder. |
| 0:47.3 | Susan Haynes Johnson of Dumbartonshire was on holiday at Moffat in Scotland on September 20th. |
| 0:54.3 | She was walking along the Moffat Edinburgh Road when she came to the Garden Home Lynn Bridge and walked over it, |
| 1:01.8 | lying in the ravine known as the Devil's Beef Tub, and she saw what appeared to be parts of a human body. |
| 1:08.8 | She returned to the hotel where she was staying and told her brother, |
| 1:12.9 | who was also on holiday with her. Alfred Charles Johnson went to the bridge and saw lying about |
| 1:19.6 | 10 yards away from it, a human arm. He went to the water's edge and found a forearm, a hand, and a human head. |
| 1:29.3 | They were all partially wrapped up in a newspaper. |
| 1:32.3 | He went straight back and informed the police. |
| 1:35.3 | Inspector Thomas Renfro began a search of the watercourse at the Garden Home Lynn. |
| 1:41.3 | He found four pieces of flesh about 30 feet from the bridge. |
| 1:46.0 | The next day he found further pieces of flesh some distance away |
| 1:51.0 | and then continued his search down the stream of the anon. |
| 1:55.0 | There he found some more flesh, and all these he handed to Inspector Strath. Police Sergeant Robert Sloan of |
| 2:03.1 | Dunfershire Constabulary said that on September 29th, accompanied by Mr. Johnson, he went to |
| 2:09.5 | Gardenholm-Linn Bridge, and below the bridge he found some human remains. There were four bundles, |
| 2:16.5 | and nearly two human heads, two forearms with hands, |
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