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The Burke and Hare murders were a series of sixteen murders committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures.
William Burke and William Hare (respectively, born 1792, Orrery, Ireland—died January 28, 1829, Edinburgh, Scotland; flourished 1820s, Londonderry, Ireland) were a pair of infamous murderers for profit who killed their victims and sold the corpses to an anatomist for purposes of scientific dissection. Hare immigrated to Scotland from Ireland ...
- John Philip Jenkins
The days of the Resurrection Men were over for good as was the temptation to kill innocent people for money that had proven so irresistible to William Burke and William Hare. There was money to be made from dead bodies in the Edinburgh of the 1820s...
The most infamous of which were the Burke and Hare Murders in Edinburgh, which occurred between 1827 – 1828. The New Carlton Graveyard Watch Tower, Edinburgh William Burke and William Hare both originated from the Province of Ulster in the north of Ireland and moved to Scotland to work on the Union Canal, Burke having abandoned a wife and two ...
The skeleton of murderer William Burke at the Anatomy Museum, University of Edinburgh. The murders committed by Burke and Hare in Edinburgh inspired others to murder for profit. The most...
May 4, 2022 · By Rachel Mackie. Published 4th May 2022, 12:17 BST. Updated 4th May 2022, 12:19 BST. Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276. Visit Shots! now. William Burke and...
Sep 22, 2021 · The best-known of the 'Resurrection Men' were William Burke and William Hare, who took the grisly practice one step further. The pair murdered at least 16 people during the period 1827-1828, selling the cadavers to Dr Robert Knox's anatomy school.
