Grave Robbers Turned Murderers: The Sinister Story of Burke and Hare
Grave Robbers Turned Murderers: The Sinister Story of Burke and Hare
Crimehub: A True Crime Podcast
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Show Notes
The Burke and Hare case was a scandalous episode in 19th-century Edinburgh where William Burke and William Hare, two Irish immigrants, resorted to murder to supply fresh corpses to medical schools. Operating in the early 1820s, they targeted vulnerable individuals, including travelers and the homeless, smothering them to sell their bodies for dissection. The discovery of their crimes shocked society and led to legal reforms regarding the procurement of cadavers for medical research.
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