29.8: Murder for Resurrection
From Occult Confessions by The Alchemical Actors
April 3, 2026 · 1h 1m · Season 29 · Episode 8
About this episode
The episode discusses the murders committed by William Burke and William Hare in Edinburgh and their method of killing known as 'burking'.
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.
Topics covered
- murder
- resurrection
- Edinburgh
- history
- crime
- burking
Keywords
- William Burke
- William Hare
- Edinburgh
- murder
- burking
- Dr. Robert Knox
- crime history
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Edinburgh
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