Until 1832, there was an acute shortage of legally available cadavers for medical research in British medical schools. The University of Edinburgh was a world renowned institution for the quality of their preparation. As medical science flourished in the early XIX, the demand for cadavers has increased rapidly, but by then the only legal supply of corpses - those of executed criminals - significantly decreased due to a reduction in executions caused by the revocation of Bloody Code. Suddenly, there were only 2 or 3 bodies available each year for a large number of students, a situation that attracted criminals seeking and outside income. The activities of the Body Snatchers (also known as Resurrector) resulted in fear and disgust by the public, which is why many cemeteries have increased their security, building walls and checkpoints, and even placing fences around graves. Up the close and down the stair, But and Ben with Burke and Hare. Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the boy who buys the beef (Popular song of Edinburgh of the nineteenth century: "In the attic and under the stair, But and Ben with Burke and Hare. Burke is the butcher, Hare is the thief, Knox the boy who buys the steak ")
William Burke (1792 - January 28, 1829) was born in Urney near Strabane , west of County Tyrone , in the province of Ulster . After tried their luck in many jobs and as a servant of an officer in the militia of Donegal, left his wife and two children in Ireland and emigrated to Scotland in 1817, where he worked on the Union Canal, and met Helen M'Dougal. Burke worked on as a laborer, weaver, baker and shoemaker.
The birthplace of William Hare (born in 1792 or 1804) is located in Newry or Derry in the province of Ulster. Like Burke, he emigrated to Scotland, where he worked as a laborer on the Union Canal. He moved to Edinburgh, where he met a man named Logue, who ran a hostel in the West Port. Logue's death in 1826, Hare married his widow, Margaret Laird, who continued to run the hostel, while Hare worked at the canal.
In 1827, Burke and M'Dougal moved to Tanner's Close, West Port, where he was the guest of Margaret Laird. Margaret Burke knew of his previous trips to Edinburgh, although it is unclear if they knew Hare. The truth is that when Burke moved to Tanner's Corner, both hcieron good friends. According to the testimony of Hare, who sold the first body was that of a tenant who died of natural causes, an old pensioner of the navy to be 4 pounds of rent Hare. Instead of burying the body, the coffin filled with land and took the body to the University of Edinburgh, looking for a buyer. According to the testimony of Burke, a student sent to Dr. Robert Knox an ambitious anatomist Edinburgh, who bought the body for 7 pounds and 10 shillings.
The next victim of Burke and Hare was a sick tenant, Joseph the Miller, who got drunk on whiskey and suffocated. When more tenants were no longer sick, decided to attract a victim of the street. In February 1828, invited the pensioner Abigail Simpson to spend the night in the hostel before returning home. Again, the drunk and then drown. Received 10 pounds.
Margaret Hare's wife, invited a woman to the inn and, after getting drunk, he sent for her husband. Later, Burke met two women in the Edinburgh area known as Canongate, Mary Patterson and Janet Brown, and invited them to breakfast, but Brown left when an argument broke out between M'Dougal and Burke. When he returned, he was told that Patterson had left with Burke, in fact, had ended in the dissection room of Dr. Knox. The two women were described in ancient chronicles as prostitutes. Later, he said one of Knox students had recognized the late Patterson.
The next victim was an acquaintance of Burke, a beggar named Effie. They were paid 10 pounds for his body. Burke later "saved" a woman that p 
Olicia going to stop saying that he knew. He sent his body to medical school just hours later. The next victims were an elderly woman and her grandson. Both bodies were sold for 8 pounds each. They were followed by an acquaintance of Burke, the sine Ostler, and a member of the family of Helen, Ann M'Dougal.
The next victim was Elizabeth Haldane, a former tenant in a time of need Hare asked to let him sleep in his barn. Burke and Hare also killed his daughter Peggy Haldane few months later.
The next victim of Burke and Hare was more familiar: a young crippled and mentally retarded named James Wilson, known as "Daft Jamie" who was 18 when he was killed. The boy tried to resist, and had to be reduced between the two murderers. The mother began to inquire about your child. When Dr. Knox uncovered the body in the morning class, many students recognized Jamie. The head and feet were cut after they discovered the body Knox students. Knox denied it was Jamie, but it seems that began dissecting the face first.
The latest victim was Marjorie Campbell Docherty. Burke drew the hostel saying that his mother was a Docherty, but was forced to wait because there were two other tenants called James and Ann Gray present. The Gray retired and, soon after neighbors heard sounds of struggle from the hostel.
The next day, Ann Gray was suspicious when Burke would not let him come to bed I had left some socks. When the evening's Gray were alone in the house, searched the bed and discovered the body of Docherty below. On the way to the station, they encountered M'Dougal, who unsuccessfully tried to bribe them with 10 pounds.
removed the body from his hiding before the police arrived. However, during interrogation, Burke said Docherty had left at 7 pm, while M'Dougal said he had gone for the night. The police arrested them. An anonymous tip led them to the office of Dr. Knox, where Docherty's body was found, James Gray identified. William and Margaret Hare were arrested shortly afterwards. The wave of killings had lasted a year.
When a newspaper wrote about the disappearance of 6 November 1828, Janet Brown found out and went to the police station where he identified the clothes of Patterson.
The evidence against the couple were not conclusive, so the Lord Advocate Sir William Rae Hare offered immunity if he confessed and testified against Burke. Hare's testimony led to the death sentence of Burke in December 1828. Was hanged on January 28, 1829, 2 and publicly dissected in the Edinburgh Medical School. His skeleton, death mask and objects made with the skin, are on display at the museum school.
M'Dougal was released because he could not prove their involvement in the crimes. Knox was not charged, but its role as an incentive of 16 deaths were a public scandal. Burke had sworn in his confession that Knox did not know anything about the origin of the bodies.
M'Dougal returned home, but was attacked by an angry mob. You may return to Stirling with his family. It is rumored that he went to Australia, where he died around 1868. Margaret Hare prevented the lynching, and returned to Ireland with his family. Never heard from again.
Hare was released in February 1829, and popular tradition identifies him with a blind beggar in London attacked by a mob and thrown into a pit, but none of this is confirmed. The last time you saw him was in the English city of Carlisle. Knox remained silent about his dealings with Burke and Hare, and continued to employ the Body Snatchers for their anatomy classes. Following publication of the Anatomy Act of 1832, its popularity among students decreased. When his requests for the College of Physicians of Edinburgh were rejected, he went to London Cancer Hospital, where he died in 1862.
crimes revealed the crisis in medical schools, and led to the publication of Anatomy Act in 1832, expanding the legal supply of corpses to deter such criminal behavior. The Lancet editorial claimed responsibility for the crimes to the Governor for the delay of its measures, and found some way to Burke and Hare co-authors of the new law show the faults of the Government both at the time of supplying corpses schools, such as when to offer trips to the needy.
The murders of Burke and Hare are referenced in the story of Robert Stevenson The Body Snatchers, in which two assistants employed by Dr. Knox purchased the bodies of the murderers.
In 1945 the film The Body Snatchers, directed by Robert Wise is starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff . The killings were adapted into the 1948 film Crimes Burke and Hare, but the British censors considered it inadequate and requested to delete the references to Burke and Hare. The film was released with other characters and other dialogues under the title Greed of William Hart .
The screenplay by Dylan Thomas (1953) on the crimes of Burke and Hare The Doctor and the devils tells the story of the murders changing the names of the characters. It was released in 1985 with Timothy Dalton as Dr. Rock (the equivalent of Knox) and directed by Freddie Francis.
In Meat and demons (1960), Peter Cushing plays Knox, Donald Pleasance and George Rose Hare Burke. In The Anatomist (1961) Alastair Sim gives birth to Knox.
Chapter of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour of November 23, 1964, The issue McGregor, Burke and Hare included as characters. Duggan Andrew McGregor plays a man who carries the tools of Burke (Arthur Malet) and Hare (Michael Plate). the 1971 film Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde transported to the murderers in the Victorian era, where they are employed by the Dr. Jekyll. Burke is played by Ivor Dean and Hare Tony Calvin.
In the 1972 film Burke and Hare Derren Nesbitt portrays Edwards Glynn Burke and Hare.
production Medicinal Purposes of Doctor Who (2004) places the Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) on the scene of the crimes. Leslie Philips played Dr. Knox, and David Tennant to Jamie Bobo.
film Burke and Hare, based on the facts, began filming in early 2010, and includes Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as Burke and Hare.
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