William Burke and William Hare, body-snatchers in Edinburgh, murdered at least sixteen people in order to sell their corpses to surgeon Robert Knox.
Sources
- History Day 2022: Dissection and the resurrectionists in the archives of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (rcseng.ac.uk)
- https://medicine-vet-medicine.ed.ac.uk/about/history/burke-and-hare (medicine-vet-medicine.ed.ac.uk)
- https://www.nls.uk/collections/stories/scottish-history/burke-and-hare-at-the-library/ (nls.uk)
- https://daily.jstor.org/burke-and-hare-and-knox/ (daily.jstor.org)
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- https://rcsedlibraryandarchive.wordpress.com/2018/07/25/the-burke-and-hare-murders-revisited-by-lisa-rosner-phd-distinguished-professor-of-history-stockton-university/ (rcsedlibraryandarchive.wordpress.com)
- https://serialkillercalendar.com/William%20BURKE.php (serialkillercalendar.com)
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