Broadside Regarding the Burke and Hare Trials - http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/15228
Transcription of a contemporary broadside which describes Burke's hanging and gives information on some of the murder victims. Also a PDF facsimile of the broadside, and commentary. From the National Library of Scotland. |
Burke & Hare - http://www.wyrdology.com/edinburgh/burke-hare.html
A synopsis of the story of these serial killers. |
Burke and Hare--Murder for Money? - http://heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1267&id=197912005
Profile of these infamous criminals. [The Scotsman] |
Burke and Hare--The Bodysnatchers - http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A702802
Information on bodysnatching in 19th-century Britain, how the infamous duo operated, and what happened after they were caught. |
Burke, William (1792-1829) - http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/BUN_CAL/BURKE_WILLIAM_17921829_.html
Biographical entry on the convicted murderer, from the 1911 Encyclopędia Britannica. |
Graverobbers and Dr. Robert Knox - http://www.trivia-library.com/b/life-after-trial-graverobbers-and-dr-robert-knox-part-1.htm
Two-part essay on Burke and Hare follows up on the murderers' best customer and their female companions, after William Burke was hanged. |
The Corpus and the Hare - http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/mdd/v03/i08/html/10time.html
Supply rose to meet demand in nineteenth-century Edinburgh. Unfortunately, the demand was for fresh corpses. [Modern Drug Discovery] |
The Resurrectionists - http://www.scotshistoryonline.co.uk/burke.html
The dark side of Edinburgh's fame for its medical schools was the trade in cadavers. Photographs of city landmarks accompany the story of Burke and Hare. |
The Story of Burke and Hare - http://members.fortunecity.com/gillonj/burkeandhare/
Thumbnail sketch of the crimes and capture of these infamous Edinburgh murderers. |
Wikipedia: William Burke and William Hare - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Burke_and_William_Hare
Biographical article on the immigrant laborers who briefly had a lucrative trade in murder. |