BURKE AND HARE MURDERS

This was the heinous murdered of 16 people in 1828 in the capitol of Scotland,Edinburgh.
Two friends and business partners William Burke and William Hare used to sold the corpses to the Robert Knox who was a lecturer of anatomy in Britain and he used those corpses to dissect it during his lectures and practical demonstration to taught the students.But with time the supply of carcass fall immensely as Edinburgh was the epicenter of the study of anatomy of that time .So the waning of the carrion lead the supplier to went for body snatching which was generally a unscrupulous way of stealing the dead body buried in the graveyard.With time as this profession got the emoluments ,the demand of more cadaver were increased and this basic principal of supply and demand leads to a  dirty-dealing.A boarder at the William Hare was fall sick ,in the doubt her illness impede the other members of the house or just to earn more revenue  from selling the dead body they killed her and sold her body to the Robert Knox who thought she was already a corpse .This abomination and abhor action enhanced their revenue and they in order to gain more dead body and profit started killing the natives .In last ten months they killed 16 people which leads to a terror in the town as the commune thought this was an agility of some serial killer . With in a year such humongous number of death shattered the people's faith to the government and local authority but soon the brute murders by the Burke and Hare was disclosed when the others guest in the house found the last victim Margaret Docherty  and in revert they immediately contacted the Police .Initial there was not much evidence against the Burke and Hare but still they were the prime suspect .Eventually the local Police made a deal with the Hare in return of his immunity,he unimpeded all the crimes he had done with the Burke .As a result Burke was went under a trail and finally found guilty and was hanged .
This nauseating crime and chain of murders convulse the whole Scotland and to prevent from such further incident and crime,the Anatomy Act 1832  was passed. But in order to accretion this entitled several precious life was massacre.