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'''William Burke''' (???? - January 28th, 1829) and '''William Hare''' (???? - ????) were two serial serial killers who killed 15 people in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh Edinburgh], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland Scotland], over a period of about ten months in 1828. The two men, who were from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster Ulster], sold the corpses of their 16 victims to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Knox Doctor Robert Knox] as dissection material for his well-attended anatomy lectures. Their alleged accomplices were Burke's mistress, Helen McDougal, and Hare's wife, Margaret Laird.
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'''William Burke''' (???? - January 28th, 1829) and '''William Hare''' (???? - ????) were two serial killers who killed 15 people in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh Edinburgh], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland Scotland], over a period of about ten months in 1828. The two men, who were from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster Ulster], sold the corpses of their 16 victims to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Knox Doctor Robert Knox] as dissection material for his well-attended anatomy lectures. Their alleged accomplices were Burke's mistress, Helen McDougal, and Hare's wife, Margaret Laird.


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