In January 1829, William Burke was tried for the murder of sixteen people in 
Edinburgh, for the purpose of selling their bodies to anatomists in Edinburgh. His accomplice, William Hare, turned King’s evidence and avoided prosecution. He was hanged and sentenced to be anatomized and displayed; his skeleton still hangs today in the Anatomy Museum at Edinburgh University Medical School (click for geospatial location). Image: Drawing of Hare and Burke (c. 1850). This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.
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