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Trailer Photos Top cast Edit. Paul Luty Cruncher as Cruncher. Roy Macready Merrilees as Merrilees. Derren Nesbitt Burke as Burke. Susan Coates Polly as Polly. Christine Pilgrim Rosie as Rosie. Yutte Stensgaard Janet as Janet. Caroline Yates Annie as Annie. Glynn Edwards Hare as Hare. Yootha Joyce Mrs. Hare as Mrs. Dee Shenderey Mrs. Burke as Mrs. Frederick Piper Lodger as Lodger. In , Burke and Hare, a pair of opportunistic low-lives, took the practice to a new extreme.

They murdered at least 16 innocent victims, including a year-old boy, in the name of medical science - and the freshness of the corpses they delivered for dissection earned them extra money. The names of Burke and Hare have become synonymous with body-snatching, but the true details of their crimes have been obscured by mythology and questions still surround the case.

In Enlightenment Edinburgh, how were Burke and Hare able to carry on their repulsive and murderous trade undetected for so long? Why was only one of the homicidal due brought to justice?

And what were the roles of Burke and Hare's common-law wives, the medical students who took delivery of the corpses and Dr Robert Knox, the distinguished teacher of anatomy whose dissecting table was the final resting place of the unfortunate victims?

Bailey reveals a sordid side to a society which was famed for its intellectual and progressive thinking, yet depended on predatory criminals for the advance of medical knowledge. In this compulsive and absorbing book, the evidence is thoroughly re-examined - and startling conclusions are reached. After the murders, the duo sold the cadavers to Robert Knox who then used them in his lectures for dissection. Leighton describes in detail the murders and evidence, as well as the trial and other elements of one of Scotland's most notorious crimes.

History is proudly republishing this classic work now in a brand new edition complete with an introductory biography of the author by Thomas Wilson Bayne. The four of them met by chance one day when Burke and Helen were out and ran into Margaret Hare and she invited them back to the boarding house for dirnks and to introduced them to her husband William Hare. It wasent too long after that, that they were paying lodgers of the Hares. They had began a freindship of some sort you could say, loved to drink, and easy money making schemes no matter what method they had to use.

During this time there was an increase in the number of students wanting anamotacial training and the medical classrooms soon became full to capisity. The anatomy classes were taught by a popular anatomists named Dr. The law provided that only the bodies of recently executed criminals could be used, due to religious beliefs. This lead to a shortage of cadavers for the medical students at the University.

When the University would receive. It wasent just Burke and Hare, it dates back as far as the s , but what makes them different is that there corpses werent from the graves at all, they were murdered by a special form of strangulation that Burke and Hare had perfected.