Burke, Hare, and the Anatomy Murders of Edinburgh

Criminalia

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True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Contrary to popular belief, the famous body-snatching duo of William Burke and William Hare were not actually body snatchers. They never robbed graves at all -- they had their own way of supplying anatomists with fresh corpses, and it didn’t involve the graveyard. They simply killed people. And a new word was coined from the pair’s murderous practices: ‘burking'.

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