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Burke and Hare
Author | : Owen Dudley-Edwards |
Publsiher | : Birlinn |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 9780857907530 |
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In a boarding house in West Port, an old army pensioner dies of natural causes. He owes the landlord rent. Instead of burying the body, the landlord, William Hare, and his friend, William Burke, fill the coffin with bark and sell the corpse to Dr. Robert Knox, an ambitious Edinburgh anatomist. They make a profit of GBP3 and 10 shillings. After this encouraging outcome, Burke and Hare decide to suffocate another sickly tenant. So begins the criminal career of the most notorious double act in serial killing. Here is the unvarnished, human story behind the infamous Burke and Hare murders. We delve into their past, their personalities and the circumstances that made them resort to murder as a money-making scheme. It's a tale of desperation and greed, of outsiders, ambition, corruption and betrayal. And it's all true!
The Infamous Burke and Hare
Author | : R. Michael Gordon |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2009-10-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780786454563 |
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Body snatchers and grave robbers were the stuff of Victorian lore, but two real-life culprits took the crimes out of shadowy cemeteries and into criminal court. William Burke and William Hare aided Scottish surgeons competing for anatomical breakthroughs by experimenting on human corpses. As the duo evolved from petty theft to premeditated murder, they unwittingly brought attention to the medical practices of the era, leading to Burke's death by hanging. This account not only explores the work of the resurrectionists, it reflects the nature of serial killers, 1820s criminal law, and Edinburgh's early role as a seat of European medical research. Readers interested in the legal aspects of these crimes will find the trial testimony included to be a valuable resource.
The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times
Author | : George Mac Gregor |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Anatomy |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4285339 |
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The Anatomy Murders
Author | : Lisa Rosner |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2011-07-07 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 9780812203554 |
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Up the close and down the stair, Up and down with Burke and Hare. Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the man who buys the beef. —anonymous children's song On Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the company of William Burke and William Hare. Days later, police discovered her remains in the surgery of the prominent anatomist Dr. Robert Knox. Docherty was the final victim of the most atrocious murder spree of the century, outflanking even Jack the Ripper's. Together with their accomplices, Burke and Hare would be accused of killing sixteen people over the course of twelve months in order to sell the corpses as "subjects" for dissection. The ensuing criminal investigation into the "Anatomy Murders" raised troubling questions about the common practices by which medical men obtained cadavers, the lives of the poor in Edinburgh's back alleys, and the ability of the police to protect the public from cold-blooded murder. Famous among true crime aficionados, Burke and Hare were the first serial killers to capture media attention, yet The Anatomy Murders is the first book to situate their story against the social and cultural forces that were bringing early nineteenth-century Britain into modernity. In Lisa Rosner's deft treatment, each of the murder victims, from the beautiful, doomed Mary Paterson to the unfortunate "Daft Jamie," opens a window on a different aspect of this world in transition. Tapping into a wealth of unpublished materials, Rosner meticulously portrays the aspirations of doctors and anatomists, the makeshift existence of the so-called dangerous classes, the rudimentary police apparatus, and the half-fiction, half-journalism of the popular press. The Anatomy Murders resurrects a tale of murder and medicine in a city whose grand Georgian squares and crescents stood beside a maze of slums, a place in which a dead body was far more valuable than a living laborer.
Burke and Hare
Author | : Alanna Knight |
Publsiher | : National Archives UK |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2007-06-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105129867698 |
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Burke and Hare were suppliers of corpses to the Edinburgh medical establishment in a reign of terror 1827-8. This work throws light on the bodies trade, and features trial reports, confessions, prison records and illustrations.
Hare Krishna Transformed
Author | : E. Burke Rochford |
Publsiher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2007-05-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780814775790 |
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Though they are intimately related, most textbooks cover either religious studies or theology, leaving students lacking in exposure to one or the other of these associated disciplines. Religious Studies and Theology: An Introduction offers a comprehensive introduction to both subjects in one inclusive volume. The text is written in an accessible style and is meant for beginning students and all those interested in learning about these fields. It is divided into six sections, including Theories of Religion; World Religions; Biblical Studies; Practical Theology; Systematic Theology; and The Philosophy of Religion. The volume also contains a guide for further reading as well as boxes to explain key terms. Offering thorough and cutting-edge coverage of all aspects of these fields, it is the only introduction to the whole of religious studies and theology in a single-volume format. Contributors: Douglas J. Davies, Seth D. Kunin, Hugh Goddard, Martin A. Mills, Matthew Wood, F. Michael Perko, Paul Ellingworth, Ken Aitken, Helen K. Bond, John Swinton, Henry R. Sefton, Francesca Aran Murphy, and Derek Cross.
Hare Krishna in America
Author | : E. Burke Rochford |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0813511143 |
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Traces the growth of the Hare Krishna movement in the U.S., describes the experiences of individual followers, and analyzes recruitment patterns, activities, and leadership of the movement.
Murder Houses of Edinburgh
Author | : Jan Bondeson |
Publsiher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2020-10-28 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 9781800467811 |
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Which of Edinburgh’s most gruesome murders has happened in your street? And were they committed by Burke and Hare, by the Stockbridge Baby-Farmer, by the Demon Frenchman of George Street, by the Triple Killer of Falcon Avenue, or perhaps by one of the Capital’s many faceless, spectral slayers