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Burke and Hare - Trailer

1 decade 4 years 4 months ago

Wikipedia - The Burke and Hare murders (also known as the West Port murders) were serial murders perpetrated in Edinburgh, Scotland, from November 1827 to 31 October 1828. The killings were attributed to Irish immigrants William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses of their 17 victims to provide material for dissection. Their purchaser was Doctor Robert Knox, a private anatomy lecturer whose students were drawn from Edinburgh Medical College. Their accomplices included Burke's mistress, Helen M'Dougal, and Hare's wife, Margaret Laird.[1] From their infamous method of killing their victims has come the word "burking", meaning to purposefully smother and compress the chest of a victim.

And now they look to have made a pretty funny movie about it. Too soon?

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siftbot

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Moving this video to alien_concept's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

alien_concept

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*promote

siftbot

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Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by original submitter alien_concept.

kymbos

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I'd love to see our Simon return to form, after his... misjudged... foray into Hollywood.

And Isla... I have a special place in my heart for that woman.

This looks good.