Edinburgh University wants the two women's descendants to help decide what happens to their remains.
A search has been launched for the families of two women killed 90 years ago in the Jigsaw Murders, after their skulls were rediscovered in a university storeroom.
Professor of anatomy Tom Gillingwater said: "We want to do the right thing by Isabella and Mary and, if appropriate, return them to their families so they can be laid to rest." As they carried out their gruesome task, another investigation was under way in Lancaster, north west England. Ruxton’s efforts to avoid justice were defeated by groundbreaking forensic techniques which confirmed the remains were those of Isabella and Mary.
"It was one of the most important criminal investigations of the 20th Century, not because of the horror of the case and the dismemberment of the bodies, but because of the forensic science," he said. "If you're asking me if I would have done the same thing with my 21st Century lens, absolutely not," said Prof Gillingwater.Mr Wood believes it is unlikely the women’s families knew they were holding funerals without all of their loved ones’ remains.“These were men who were determined to improve criminal investigation and they would have used these body parts to do that.
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