It began as a lurid tale of sadism and corruption in Edinburgh’s old town. Between 1827 and 1828, William Burke and William Hare terrorized the cobblestone streets of Scotland’s capital ...

THE Edinburgh Dungeon have added a Burke and Hare themed addition to their Halloween tour to mark the anniversary of the pair’s final murder.

A NEW walking tour about Burke and Hare will chill you to the bone — as it takes place inside the cold, damp and eerie Falkirk Tunnel. The Resurrection play, from Scottish Canals and The Walking ...

Kill time in Edinburgh on a fiendishly grisly Burke and Hare tour. A film starring Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis about the gruesome twosome who terrorised Scotland's capital in the 18th century is ...

Burke was hanged outside St Giles Cathedral on January 28, 1829 - although it remains unknown what became of Hare. Burke's skeleton was donated to the Anatomy Museum in the University of Edinburgh ...

Burke, and his friend Hare, were two of the Capital’s most infamous murderers, thought to have killed at least 16 people throughout the year 1828, and they have appeared in literature, theatre ...

Burke and Hare's notorious Edinburgh crimes still shock after 200 years IT is almost 200 years since their crimes but Burke and Hare remain two of the world’s most infamous serial killers.

The names of William Burke and William Hare are inextricably linked to a particularly gruesome period of Scottish history. In the late 1820s they supplied Edinburgh’s anatomists with fresh ...