Why is it that criminal trials grip the imagination of the meekest law abiders in us. What is the psychological urge that holds us to the crime columns of our daily papers? What sends so many of us packing to the public seats of the law courts? Dr Buck Ruxton slew his beautiful English wife Isabel and their servant, before dissecting their remains into all but unidentifiable parts. In the law courts for this particular trial, women fainted and retired from the galleries, whilst the indisputable evidence was presented...