The Burke and Hare murders involved 16 killings committed over a period of ten months. This occurred in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland, by William Burke and William Hare. They sold corpses to Robert Knox, a lecturer on anatomy in Edinburgh, the corpses were used for dissection at his anatomy lectures. Edinburgh was a leading EuropeanContinue reading “Burke and Hare murders, 1828- 1829.”
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