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	William Hare - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Hare owned a lodging house and, when an old lodger died owing rent, he and his accomplice William Burke decided to sell the body to a medical school.
		Hare turned king's evidence and got his freedom, while Burke was hanged.
		Deciding to lie low, Hare came to Kilkeel and soon landed in the workhouse; his identity was only revealed to the locals when a Dr Reid, a former medical student from Edinburgh, recognized him.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/William_Hare (150 words)

	West Port murders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The West Port murders were perpetrated in 1827-1828 by William Burke and William Hare who sold the corpses of their 16 victims to the Edinburgh Medical College for dissection.
		Burke lured her into the lodging house by claiming that his mother was also a Docherty but he had to wait because of James and Ann Gray who were lodging with them.
		Hare's testimony led to Burke's death sentence in December 1828 but Helen MacDougal was released, her complicity to the murders was found to be not proven.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Burke_and_William_Hare (1149 words)

	WILLIAM BURKE - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM BURKE
		This was the period of the body-snatchers or Resurrectionists, and Hare and Burke, aware that money could always be obtained for a corpse, sold the body to Dr Robert Knox, a leading Edinburgh anatomist, for 7, xos.
		The latter turned kings evidence, and Burke was found guilty and hanged at Edinburgh on the 28th of January 1829.
		From Burkes method of kffling his victims has come the verb to burke, meaning to suffocate, strangle or suppress secretly, or to kill with the object of selling the body for the purposes of dissection.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BU/BURKE_WILLIAM.htm (311 words)

	Murder in the UK
		William Hare is said to have died a penniless and blind pauper in London in 1859, having been a beggar in his last few years.
		William Noble, the shopman to Mr Rayner, a grocer at Portsburgh, near Tanner's Close, was then examined, and proved that on the night of the 31st October Burke, who had been in the habit of dealing at his employer's house, called there in order to purchase some trifling articles of grocery.
		Burke inquired her name, and on her mentioning the name of Campbell he at once claimed acquaintance and relationship with her, and finally took her away with him, saying that he would provide her with lodging for the night.
	www.murderuk.com /serial_william_burke_william_hare.html (5256 words)

	William Burke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Burke (1792 - January 28, 1829) was an Irish serial killer who, along with William Hare committed a notorious series of murders in Edinburgh in the 19th century.
		By 1827 he was living in a lodging-house in Edinburgh kept by Hare, another Irish laborer, and Maggie Laird.
		Condemned by Hare's evidence, Burke was found guilty and hanged at Edinburgh's Lawnmarket on January 28, 1829.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Burke (259 words)

	Burke & Hare: The Edinburgh Body Merchants - Famous Criminal - Homepage - Crime And Investigation Network
		William Burke and William Hare were probably the most notorious multiple murderers in 19th Century Scotland; their trial, for providing fresh corpses for the rapidly developing medical & surgical profession, sparked huge public interest, and the hanging of William Burke drew one of the largest spectator crowds ever assembled in Edinburgh up to that time.
		William Hare was another Irishman, born in Newry, who also emigrated to Scotland to work on the Grand Union Canal, although he and Burke did not meet until later, when both were living in Edinburgh.
		Burke and Hare spent with increasing abandon, so much so that they had to pretend to have inherited money, to explain their new affluence to curious neighbours.
	www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk /famous_criminal/11/home/1/Burke_Hare_The_Edinburgh_Body_Merchants.htm (2536 words)

	BBC - Crime Case Closed - Burke and Hare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Burke and Hare are reported to have first met in Edinburgh, after both men had left their native Ireland to work on the Union Canal in Scotland.
		Hare (pictured right) had settled at a boarding lodge with a recently widowed woman named Margaret, the two had struck up a relationship soon after her husband's death and they ran the lodge as if they were a married couple.
		Hare was released in February 1829 and many popular tales tell of him as a blind beggar on the streets of London having been mobbed and thrown in a lime pit.
	www.bbc.co.uk /crime/caseclosed/burkeandhare.shtml (1790 words)

	William Burke and William Hare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Burke left the house on the pretence of purchasing more whiskey, but his objective was more sinister, he had already decided that Mary was to be his next victim, he had left the house to search for Hare.
		William Newbigging completed the autopsy on November 3, his report indicated that Mary Docherty died due to smothering, but he was unable to determine whether this was due to an accident or murder.
		Burke and Helen McDougal were separately questioned; each gave differing accounts as to how Mary came to be at the house and the circumstances surrounding her death.
	www.thecrimeweb.com /william_burke_and_william_hare.htm (3887 words)

	Burke and Hare
		The evidence Hare and his wife provided sent Burke to his death on the gallows on 28 January, 1829 while his mistress Helen MacDougall escaped when the charges against her were found not proven.
		William Hare is said to have died a penniless pauper in London in 1859, while Robert Knox - the doctor who bought most of Burke and Hare's bodies so willingly - was never prosecuted.
		Burke and Hare killed their victims by strangling them using a method they had perfected which left no obvious trace of foul play and little evidence of the murder which they had committed.
	www.highlanderweb.co.uk /burkhare.htm (316 words)

	Burke coat of arms
		William de Burgh (called William the Conqueror by Irish annalists and wrongly described as William Fitzadelm de Burgo) was the progenitor of the Burkes in Ireland and brother of Hubert de Burgh, "the most powerful man in England next to King John".
		Richard Burke, known as Richard an Iarainn (of the iron), possibly because of the iron mines on his Burrishoole lands, was the second husband of Grania O Malley the pirate queen, one of the outstanding Irish women of the Elizabethan age.
		William Burke (1792 - 1829) of Cork was hanged as a notorious criminal.
	www.araltas.com /features/burke (2358 words)

	Who were Burke and Hare?
		It is clear Burke did not share the sectarian values of many of his countrymen, both from this and from the fact that his common-law wife of 10 years, Helen MacDougal, with whom he was tried for the Edinburgh murders, was a protestant.
		Burke was a small man, not even 5.5 ft tall- it would have been a feat of great strength to break the back of a 12 year old boy.
		Burke and Hare got her drunk and Hare murdered her (Burke did not want to be the one to kill her as she was a relative of sorts.) They stored her body in a trunk, given to them by Knox’s doorman, Paterson.
	www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk /studentwebs/session5/51/burhar.htm (2318 words)

	Graverobbers! The Trial of Burke and Hare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Burke and Hare were very successful graverobbers indeed.
		The anatomists who used Burke and Hare's services didn't ask many questions about the corpses that were brought to them at the medical school under the cover of darkness.
		Ironically, the anatomists to whom Burke and Hare supplied bodies were never brought to trial.
	www.tartans.com /articles/graverobbers1.html (659 words)

	William Burke and William Hare - Grave robbings turn to murder
		Because Hare and Burke did not spend their money wisely, they were looking for new victims very quickly to stock up on money again.
		Burke and Hare were sloppy here and chose another popular charactor for their next victim that got people talking even more.
		Burke was hung in 1828 and the public demanded that the doctor that accepted the bodies and Hare join him.
	www.unsolvedmysteries.com /usm337849.html (1124 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, THE FLESH AND THE FIENDS (1959)
		William Burke (George Rose) and William Hare (Donald Pleasence) are cronies and cut-purses, drinking pals and ne'er-do-wells.
		When Burke and Hare return to the rooming house at which Burke is the landlord, they find that one of the tenants has passed away without having the courtesy to pay his rent first.
		Hare mulls it over and, after they send Burke's wife, Helen (Renee Houston), away suggests to Burke that the tenant's rent could be paid—with plenty left over—with a visit to Doctor Knox.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews3/fleshandthefiends.html (1828 words)

	William Burke and William Hare - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		William Burke had served as an officer's servant in the Donegal Militia and left his wife and two children in Ireland.
		Hare's testimony lead to Burke's death sentence December 1828 but Helen MacDougall was released because her complicity to the murders could not be proven.
		William Burke was publicly hanged January 28 1829 in Edinburgh's Lawnmarket.
	www.music.us /education/W/William-Burke-and-William-Hare.htm (1186 words)

	Textualities: West Port Murders
		The murders committed by WILLIAM BURKE and WILLIAM HARE in early eighteenth-century Edinburgh are infamous and the story well known, though often corrupted in the telling, says bookseller/publisher Bert Barrott.
		Burke and Hare were not, however, as is sometimes suggested, grave-robbers but murderers who lured itinerant strangers to the squalid slum they occupied in Tanners Close off the West Port.
		A lengthy chapter describes the escape of Hare via Dumfries, where he was recognised by a mob and besieged in the police station.
	textualities.net /writers/features-a-g/burkew01.php (704 words)

	DeCastro Family Story: chapter 7 - Connecting families
		The chief asistant William Ferguson, later to be knighted for his work as a surgeon said to them "We would be glad to see you again" The Irishmen were William Hare, keeper of a three pence -a-night, three-to-a-bed flop house, and William Burke, one of the inmates.
		But at last Burke and Hare were caught, thanks to an inquisitiveguest at the lodging house investigating a pile of straw and finding under it a body.
		Burke was hanged on 28 January 1829, and by order of that hugger-mugger court his body was disected in its turn.
	www.decastro.gen.nz /deccon.htm (1112 words)

	Knowledge Base - Burke and Hare
		Hare tried to get away from Edinburgh to start anew, but the scandal ensured that he was faced with angry mobs everywhere he went.
		Burke’s body was used as an example for dissection, his skeleton still being preserved in the Anatomy Museum at Edinburgh University Medical School.
		Reaction to the Burke and Hare case was a major factor in the passing of the Anatomy Act of 1832, which made it possible for bodies to be donated to science.
	www.scan.org.uk /knowledgebase/topics/burkeandhare_topic.htm (669 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Burke and Hare - the Bodysnatchers
		William Burke, born 1792, first came to Edinburgh from Ireland in disgrace, having deserted his wife and children.
		At any rate, it was this idea which led to Burke and Hare placing a weight instead of the body into the coffin, which was laid into the ground with everyone presuming that Donald lay therein, and removing the body to Edinburgh's Medical School.
		Hare was smuggled, alone, out of Edinburgh, and is rumoured to have lived as a beggar for the rest of his life.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A702802 (1658 words)

	William_Hare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Hare owned a lodging house and, when an old lodger died owing rent, he and his accomplice William Burke decided to sell the body to a medical school.
		Hare turned king's evidence and got his freedom, while Burke was hanged.
		Deciding to lie low, Hare came to Kilkeel and soon landed in the workhouse; his identity was only revealed to the locals when a Dr Reid, a former medical student from Edinburgh, recognized him.
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=William_Hare (132 words)

	Robert O'Hara Burke
		Burke and Wills were sent by the Victorian government to travel from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
		Burke and Wills died at the end of June while waiting to be rescued.
		Burke and Wills died a lonely death and are possibly Australia's most famous explorers.
	www.davidreilly.com /australian_explorers/burke/robert.htm (1071 words)

	Forgotten City Lies Beneath Edinburgh
		It is also believed that parts of the vaults were used to store cadavers either dug from fresh graves or plucked from the streets and sold to Edinburgh's Medical School, whose appetite for bodies for dissection was endless and unquestioning.
		The city's notorious body-snatchers William Burke and William Hare are believed to have used the vaults from time to time to store their grisly merchandise before deciding that digging was too much trouble and turning to killing instead.
		Burke was hanged after being turned in to police by Hare who himself died a pauper in London in 1859.
	www.rense.com /general50/forg.htm (747 words)

	The Timeline: The corpus and the hare.
		Burke and Hare strangled their victims; they perfected a method that left no obvious signs of violence on the corpses.
		Burke and Hare assumed that their victims would not be missed, and even if they were, that the authorities would make little effort to begin an investigation.
		Burke was tall and muscular and had a tendency toward violent outbursts, while Hare was thin and spry.
	pubs.acs.org /subscribe/journals/mdd/v03/i08/html/10time.html (1658 words)

	William Burke - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		William Burke (1792 - January 28, 1829), was an Irish criminal.
		This was the period of the body-snatchers or Resurrectionists, and Hare and Burke, aware that money could always be obtained for a corpse, sold the body to Dr Robert Knox, a leading Edinburgh anatomist, for £7 10s.
		The latter turned king's evidence, and Burke was found guilty and hanged at Edinburgh on January 28 1829.
	www.music.us /education/W/William-Burke.htm (549 words)

	Burke and Hare the body snachers, Edinburgh, Scotland - UK History
		William Burke and William Hare, two Irish immigrants from Ulster, came to Edinburgh to work as labourers on the then New Union Canal and took up lodgings with Maggie Laird and Nell Macdougal, women of low virtue, in the sleazy district of the West Port (near Tollcross).
		It is believed that William Burke and William Hare are responsible for the deaths of between 13 –30 people but Burke was the only one prosecuted and then only for the murder of Mrs Docherty.
		No charges were ever brought against the Surgeon Dr Knox as being the recipient of the bodies for dissection within the school and William Hare is said to have died a penniless pauper in London in 1858.
	www.scotshistoryonline.co.uk /burke.html (878 words)

	The Falkirk Wheel - Burke & Hare
		Hare accosted her and enticed her to his den, where she was stupefied with drink, and put to death in the manner they afterwards pursued, by covering and pressing upon the nose and mouth.
		But, after a great discussion, it was thrown out, and Hare declared at liberty, if it could be so called, as it was said that he would be torn to pieces by the people if seen, such was the feeling his conduct had called forth among a peace-loving people.
		Hare, on being liberated, barely escaped the rage of the mob, but eventually reached Glasgow, where she embarked to her native country, Ireland, in the Clyde steam-ship Fingal, to become a wanderer on the earth.
	www.falkirk-wheel.com /history/burke-hare-3.html (1803 words)

	Amazon.com: Horrors of Burke and Hare: Video: Derren Nesbitt,Harry Andrews,Glynn Edwards,Yootha Joyce,Françoise ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Hare, Françoise Pascal as Marie, Yutte Stensgaard as Janet, Robin Hawdon as Lord Angus McPhee, Alan Tucker as Arbuthnot, Dee Shenderey as Mrs.
		Burke, Joan Carol as Madame Thompson, Paul Greaves as Ferguson, Derren Nesbitt as Burke, Harry Andrews as Dr. Knox, Glynn Edwards as Hare, Yootha Joyce as Mrs.
		Burke and Hare eventually become less selective in their choices, thereby attracting attention to themselves (but not before killing 16 people).
	www.amazon.com /Horrors-Burke-Hare-Derren-Nesbitt/dp/6302403537 (1171 words)

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