Burke & Hare, Part 1 | Morbid

Throughout the first three decades of the nineteenth century, doctors and medical schools across Europe struggled to find adequate supplies of bodies that could be used for the purposes of teaching in a medical theater. The outsized demand for fresh cadavers led to the rise of “resurrection men"", AKA Graverobbers. Disgusting duo William Burke and William Hare found what they believed to be a wildly easy way to provide doctors with a steady stream of recently deceased bodies. In the end, they brutally killed at least sixteen people. The crimes left a chilling mark on Edinburgh specifically, and all of Scotland in the end.
Thank you to Dave White for research assistance.
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I’ve never heard this case before. Imagine how excited I was to find it! I used to work in a grocery store where I could listen all the time all night. Now I really have to find time to fit Morbid into my day, but I manage! Even my husband loves it. Am I just a weirdo or do autopsy theaters sound kinda cool?

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was written in 1818, the same time period as all the galvanization experiments that Alaina talks about. Makes so much sense now how that book idea came about!

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