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	Wikipedia: William Burke and William Hare - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Burke_and_William_Hare Biographical article on the immigrant laborers who briefly had a lucrative trade in murder.
	William Burke & William Hare - http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/burke/index_1.html Multi-part essay on the killers and their string of victims.
	Broadside Regarding the Burke and Hare Trials - http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/15228 Transcription of a contemporary broadside which describes Burke's hanging and gives information on some of the murder victims. Also a PDF facsimile of the broadside, and commentary. From the National Library of Scotland.
	Burke and Hare--The Bodysnatchers - http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A702802 Information on bodysnatching in 19th-century Britain, how the infamous duo operated, and what happened after they were caught.
	William Burke - http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng601.htm Lurid and moralizing account of his crimes, trial, and execution. Includes excerpts from an interview with the condemned murderer. From the Newgate Calendar.

	The Story of Burke and Hare - http://members.fortunecity.com/gillonj/burkeandhare/ Thumbnail sketch of the crimes and capture of these infamous Edinburgh murderers.
	The Resurrectionists - http://www.scotshistoryonline.co.uk/burke.html The dark side of Edinburgh's fame for its medical schools was the trade in cadavers. Photographs of city landmarks accompany the story of Burke and Hare.
	Graverobbers and Dr. Robert Knox - http://www.trivia-library.com/b/life-after-trial-graverobbers-and-dr-robert-knox-part-1.htm Two-part essay on Burke and Hare follows up on the murderers' best customer and their female companions, after William Burke was hanged.
	Burke & Hare - http://www.wyrdology.com/edinburgh/burke-hare.html A synopsis of the story of these serial killers.
	The Corpus and the Hare - http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/mdd/v03/i08/html/10time.html Supply rose to meet demand in nineteenth-century Edinburgh. Unfortunately, the demand was for fresh corpses. [Modern Drug Discovery]

	Burke, William (1792-1829) - http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/BUN_CAL/BURKE_WILLIAM_17921829_.html Biographical entry on the convicted murderer, from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
	Burke and Hare--Murder for Money? - http://heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1267&id=197912005 Profile of these infamous criminals. [The Scotsman]

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