Tag: gravedigging
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BURKE AND HARE: THE ORIGINAL BODY SNATCHERS
‘Burking’ is defined as the crime of murdering a person, ordinarily by smothering, for the purpose of selling their corpse. The word ‘burking’ is derived from a man who perfected this method, one William Burke. Along with his partner William Hare, the pair wreaked havoc for a ten month period in 1828 throughout the city…