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The Burke and Hare murders (also known as the West Port murders) were a series of murders committed in Edinburgh Scotland over a period of about ten months in 1828. The killings were attributed to Irish immigrants William Burke and William Hare who sold the corpses of their 16 victims to Doctor Robert Knox as dissection material for his well-attended anatomy lectures. Burke and Hare’s accomplices were Burke’s mistress Helen McDougal and Hare’s wife Margaret Laird.
