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William Burke Murdering Last Victim, 1829

William Burke murdering Margery Campbell, the last of the Burke and Hare murders. Illustration by Robert Seymour, 1829. Colored etching of William Burke on trial. The Burke and Hare murders were a series of sixteen killings committed over ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland, by Irish immigrants William Burke (1792-1829) and William Hare (1792-?), who sold the corpses to Robert Knox (1791-1862) for dissection at his anatomy lectures.

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William Burke Murdering Last Victim, 1829

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William Burke murdering Margery Campbell, the last of the Burke and Hare murders. Illustration by Robert Seymour, 1829. Colored etching of William Burke on trial. The Burke and Hare murders were a series of sixteen killings committed over ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland, by Irish immigrants William Burke (1792-1829) and William Hare (1792-?), who sold the corpses to Robert Knox (1791-1862) for dissection at his anatomy lectures.

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