Episode 269 Burke and Hare - Resurrectionists and Murderers
This episode is a doozy. For spooky season we dig into the life and crimes of the infamous duo, William Burke and William Hare. During a time when resurrectionists ran rampant, Burke and Hare cchanged the game. Instead of digging up fresh corpses for the medical establishment to practice upon, they killed people (through a method called burking) and sold their bodies as fresh corpses. We cover the history of medical science at the time and why fresh cadavers were necessary.
We discuss the lifes of Burke and Hare, what led to selling their first body and how they made so many others. In modern…
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