29.8: Murder for Resurrection

William Burke and William Hare murdered sixteen people in the space of about a year in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. Burke was thirty-six and Hare twenty-one-years old. Many of their victims were plied with alcohol until they passed out and then Hare lay on the body as Burke closed the mouth and nostrils in a fairly novel method of killing that came to be called “burking.” They then transported the corpses in a tea chest, sometimes in broad daylight, to Dr. Robert Knox.

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29.8: Murder for Resurrection is an episode from Occult Confessions by Robert C. Thompson.

This episode is 01:00:34 long.

This episode was published on Apr 3, 2026.

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