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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.
The story of Burke and Hare, infamous grave-robbers and murderers in 19th century Edinburgh. Burke and Hare, Edinburgh’s most ghoulish residents! In contrast to the increase in numbers of executions in the wake of the Bloody Code, the Judgement of Death Act 1823 saw the number of crimes punishable by death in Britain drop dramatically.
William Burke and William Hare were a pair of infamous murderers for profit who killed their victims and sold the corpses to an anatomist for purposes of scientific dissection.
- John Philip Jenkins
Learn how two Irishmen became notorious for selling the bodies of their victims to medical schools in 19th century Edinburgh. Discover the history of anatomy, dissection and body snatching in Europe and Scotland.
Sep 9, 2011 · Burke and Hare: Directed by John Landis. With Bill Bailey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Smiley, Tim Curry. A black comedy about two 19th-century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.
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- Comedy, Crime, History
- John Landis
- 2011-09-09
Burke & Hare is a 2010 British black comedy film, loosely based on the Burke and Hare murders of 1828. Directed by John Landis from an original screenplay by Nick Moorcroft and Piers Ashworth, the film stars Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as William Burke and William Hare respectively.
Burke and Hare took the body to Edinburgh University under the cover of darkness. They were hoping to find an assistant of the famous surgeon Professor Alexander Monro to sell it to. Instead, a student directed them to the premises of Dr Robert Knox, another well-known surgeon and anatomist.
