Away Game: Burke and Hare - The Anatomy Murderers

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Episode 088 - Over a ten month period, starting in late 1827, a pair of Irish born serial killers William Burke and William Hare killed 16 people, for fun and for profit in Edinburgh, Scotland. The corpses of their victims, twelve women, three men and one child, were taken to Surgeon's Square and sold off to anatomist Dr. Robert Knox, for use in his anatomy classes. Sources:BurkeandHare.comThe Anatomy Murders by Lisa RosnerDr. Heinrich Von Staden’s The Discovery of the BodySanjib Kumar Ghosh’s Human Cadaveric DissectionThe Diary of a Resurrectionist - 1811-1812 by James Blake Bailey on Gutennburg.orgMental Floss: The Era of the Body SnatchersMortsafes - The Vintage NewsBurke and Hare: Serial Killing for Science (Ghastly Tales of Scotland) | DocumentaryBroadside regarding the Burke and Hare trialsThe History of Burke and Hare - 1884 by George MacGregor Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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