Serial Killers Burke and Hare - Death count 17
News of the Times Episode 338 | 1828 - 1831
1828 Edinburgh was rocked by the news of a murder couple within their midst who has been killing unfortunates and then selling the freshly murdered bodies who have been smothered specifically to leave the corpse “natural looking”. Their gain is between £8 to £10 a body - approximately £1200 per body in today’s money.
Burke and Hare would become arguably the most infamous killing couple in the whole of Great Britain. According to Burke’s own official confession, they killed 17 unfortunates and had an understanding with the lead dissector, famous in his field, Dr Knox.
This infamous case created a new term “burking” - the act of killing for the purpose of selling the body to medical facilities and brought into sharp relief the issue that had been created by government policy. That was a need for medical bodies, but there were not enough bodies to meet the need. Burke and Hare spotted the gap in the market.
We take a look at this astounding case, the background, the crime and the postscript in the remarkable case of Burke and Hare in today’s episode of Sinister Saturdays.
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