Burke and Hare - The Anatomy of Murder

Edinburgh, 1828. In the fog-soaked alleyways of the city’s West Port, two Irish labourers discovered something chilling: in a city desperate for scientific progress, a fresh human body was worth a fortune. William Burke and William Hare lured at least sixteen of Edinburgh’s most vulnerable souls to their lodging house, smothering them without trace before delivering the corpses to the celebrated anatomist Dr Robert Knox — no questions asked. Behind the gas-lit lecture halls of one of Europe’s greatest medical cities lurked something monstrous, and when their reign of terror finally unravelled on Halloween night 1828, it would scandalise a nation and haunt Edinburgh forever.*music by leberch from pixabay