Burke and Hare Killed 16 People and Sold Them to a Doctor. Only One Man Hanged.

How many people did Burke and Hare kill? Sixteen, in less than a year, in Edinburgh in 1828, and they sold every one of them to the anatomist Dr Robert Knox. Only one man was hanged for it. This Burke and Hare documentary tells the true story from the record: the body shortage behind Edinburgh's anatomy schools, the resurrection men, the West Port lodging house, Daft Jamie, the Halloween night that got them caught, the deal that set William Hare free, and why Burke's skeleton is still in a university museum. Two confessions that don't agree. A rhyme sung in the street. A new word in the English language. This historical true crime documentary follows the whole case: Edinburgh's anatomy schools and Alexander Monro; the grave robbers; Burke and Hare, two labourers from Ulster, with Helen McDougal and Margaret Hare; Old Donald and the first payment at Surgeons' Square; Joseph the miller, Abigail Simpson, Mary Paterson, Mrs Haldane, Peggy and Effy; the boy by the fire; Mrs Ostler and Ann Dougal; James Wilson, Daft Jamie; Margaret Docherty and Ann and James Gray; Robert Christison and the missing proof; Sir William Rae and King's evidence; the Christmas Eve trial and the "not proven" verdict; the Lawnmarket, January 1829; Hare's coach to Dumfries; Knox's fall; and the Anatomy Act of 1832. CHAPTERS 0:00 Who Were Burke and Hare? 1:16 Why Did Burke and Hare Kill? 2:13 What Were Resurrection Men? 3:28 How Did Burke and Hare Meet? 5:23 Did Burke and Hare Rob Graves? 6:38 Who Was Burke and Hare's First Victim? 8:09 How Did Burke and Hare Lure Their Victims? 9:24 Who Did Burke and Hare Kill? 10:32 Which Murder Haunted Burke? 11:15 Why Did Burke and Hare Fall Out? 12:17 Who Was Daft Jamie? 13:15 How Did Burke and Hare Get Caught? 14:34 Why Couldn't the Police Prove Murder? 16:05 Why Were Burke and Hare Treated Differently? 16:52 What Happened at Burke's Trial? 18:54 What Does "Burking" Mean? 19:53 Where Is Burke's Skeleton? 21:16 What Happened to William Hare? 22:59 What Happened to Dr Robert Knox? 24:19 How Many People Did Burke and Hare Kill? The sixteen people are named wherever the record names them, as people, with no injuries described and no bodies shown. Myths are told as myths: the lime pit, the blind beggar of London, the peddler in the Highlands. Every Infamy Ledger episode is the whole story of one infamous case, with myths told as myths and no gore. SOURCES Wikipedia: "Burke and Hare murders", "Robert Knox", "Alexander Monro (tertius)", "Resurrectionists in the United Kingdom", "Anatomy Act 1832", "London Burkers", "Not proven", "Mortsafe", and the records and histories they cite. Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Robert Knox); University of Edinburgh (history of the medical school); National Library of Scotland ("Burke and Hare at the Library"); the Traditional Ballad Index ("Burke's Confession"). PICTURES (all public domain, one CC0) William Burke, William Hare and Helen McDougal sketched in court, "West Port Murders", Edinburgh, 1829 Hand-coloured prints, Edinburgh, 1828-29: "William Burke, the murderer"; "William Hare, King's Evidence"; "Helen M'Dougal"; Burke and McDougal; Mary Paterson; "Mrs. Campbell or Docherty"; "Daft Jamie" "Daft Jamie", James Wilson, attributed to Andrew Geddes (City Art Centre, Edinburgh); James Wilson, print, about 1829 William Hare and William Burke, engraving, 19th century; "A correct account of the life, confession, and execution of Willm. Burke", 1829 From William Roughead, "Burke and Hare", 1921: Burke and McDougal at the bar; William and Margaret Hare at the trial; Tanner's Close; the crowd at the Lawnmarket, 1829 Robert Knox, engraving, about 1830; caricatures of Knox, Edinburgh, 1829 (British Museum) Alexander Monro "Tertius", John Watson Gordon (University of Edinburgh Art Collection); Sir Walter Scott, Henry Raeburn, 1822 Thomas H. Shepherd, "Modern Athens", 1829: Surgeons' Square, the University, the West Bow, the Lawnmarket, the Cowgate, the Canongate, Parliament House, Greyfriars, the Old Town, Calton Hill Edinburgh Castle from the Grassmarket, George Washington Wilson (Cornell University Library); Plan of Edinburgh, 1844 (David Rumsey Map Collection); "The Heart of Midlothian", 1852 "The Edinburgh and London Royal Mail", J. F. Herring Sr., 1838 (Berger Collection); "The London-Dumfries Royal Mail", C. B. Newhouse (Yale Center for British Art, CC0) Maps: Natural Earth (public domain); the England-Scotland border and places are approximate MUSIC "Aftermath" and "Stay the Course" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Infamy Ledger: the whole story of history's most notorious crimes. Subscribe:    / @infamyledger   #BurkeAndHare #TrueCrime #HistoricalTrueCrime #Edinburgh #BodySnatchers #CrimeDocumentary #InfamyLedger