Quizzes

[izabelle]

what crime did Burke and Hare commit?

[mazie]

Grave Robbers

[mrs_overall]

They were grave robbers but they ended up being convicted of murder.

[boleynground]

According to Qi , they were murderers not graverobbers. It is a fallacy that they were graverobbers - just been reading up on them on Wikipedia.

Someone else might like to jump into this debate - the required answer might be Grave robbing, depending on whoever set the quiz!

[jackthehat]

Apparently, they supplied cadavers to surgeons by digging up recently buried corpses; and then decided to get rid of having to do all that earth-shifting by supplying the surgeons with 'freshly-killed' corpses. All their own work.

[Tichfield]

They murdered people in order to sell the bodies for dissection in Ebinburgh's medical school.

Burke was convicted and hanged. Hare was not prosecuted in return for his giving evidence against Burke.