{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65ce3745707bcb0017b8427d/69dc318ffdeddc4b12447210?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Irish Serial Killers Who Sold Their Victims’ Bodies","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65ce3745707bcb0017b8427d/1776038107147-c5f89a4b-15fe-481c-b683-92ace3acd0f8.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Burke and Hare are two of the most infamous serial killers in history, but they weren’t typical murderers. In 1828, Edinburgh, they killed at least 16 people and sold their bodies to medical schools in a booming underground body trade. This episode explores the real story behind the murders, the anatomy trade, and how they were finally caught.</p><p><br></p><p>This episode was written &amp; hosted by me, Jenny Claffey. Researched by Karl O’Reilly.</p><p><br></p><p>Links</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://cotyrone.com/~inthenews/fever-1817-18/#:~:text=It%20was%20confined%20to%20the,brought%20in%20a%20larger%20number\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fever &amp; Famine 1817-18 – In The News | Co. Tyrone People From The Past</a>.</p><p><a href=\"https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/273015595\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">21 May 1947 - GRIM MURDER PARTNERSHIP HELPED MAKE EDINBURGH'S MEDICAL FAME - Trove</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.realmarykingsclose.com/blog/the-burke-and-hare-murders/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Burke and Hare murders</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyxWW72PNvs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Life in Ulster in the 1800s</a></p><p><a href=\"https://burkeandhare.com/bhperps.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Perpetrators, Burke and Hare</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.mercattours.com/blog-post/the-story-of-burke-and-hare#:~:text=Who%20were%20Burke%20and%20Hare,and%20becoming%20boisterous%20when%20together\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Story of Burke and Hare - Edinburgh</a>.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.witcherytours.com/william-burke-museum#:~:text=In%20an%20ornate%20black%20box,for%20Bit%20of%20a%20Burke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The William Burke Museum | The Cadies &amp; Witchery Tours</a></p><p><a href=\"https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24794#:~:text=The%20bodies%20were%20handed%20over,flourish%20(Richardson%2C%201988)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bodies and bureaucracy: The demise of the body snatchers in 19th century Britain - Philp - 2022 - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvrsydm#z7tj7yc\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Burke and Hare: The body snatchers - BBC Bitesize</a></p><p><a href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2706054/#:~:text=Despite%20the%20preference%20for%20avoiding,law%20now%20prohibited%20such%20transactions.&amp;text=Nevertheless%2C%20he%20of%20necessity%20found,any%20knowledge%20of%20the%20practice.&amp;text=Bacot%20obtained%20an%20additional%20%C2%A3,cause%20of%20supplying%20the%20schools\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Procuring Corpses: The English Anatomy Inspectorate, 1842 to 1858 - PMC</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/feature/bodysnatchers\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The gruesome true story of the bodysnatchers who robbed graves and resorted to murder in 18th-century Britain</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history/glasgow-william-burke-hare-murder-22914222\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The untold story of serial killer William Burke's wife and her mysterious disappearance from Glasgow</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zr6ycdm/revision/3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pull factors affecting immigrants - Immigration to Scotland 1830s-1939 - National 5 History Revision - BBC Bitesize</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/irish-immigration-to-Scotland.html#:~:text=While%20most%20of%20the%20temporary,Scottish%20industries%2C%20especially%20in%20textiles\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Irish immigration to Scotland</a></p><p><a href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09677720241273567\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">An immigrant Irish contingent in the crowd at the execution of William Burke in Edinburgh in 1829 - Ken Donaldson, Christopher Henry, 2025</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.escapethepast.co.uk/post/burke-hare-edinburgh-body-snatchers\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Who were Burke &amp; Hare? Edinburgh’s Infamous “Body Snatchers\"</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.geriwalton.com/burke-and-hare-two-edinburgh-murderers/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Burke and Hare: Two Edinburgh Murderers - </a><a href=\"http://geriwalton.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">geriwalton.com</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.thedungeons.com/london/information/news/body-snatchers/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Body Snatchers | The London Dungeon</a></p>","author_name":"Jenny Claffey"}