BURKE William

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William Burke
Status
Identification Status	Identified
Criminal Status	Executed
Personal Information
Born	Spring 1792 Urney, Ulster, Kingdom of Ireland
Died	January 28, 1829 (aged 36) Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Cause of Death	Executed by hanging
Gender	Male
Race/Ethnicity	White
Criminal Information
Offender Type	Serial Killer
Method of Killing	Suffocation
Accomplice	William Hare
Criminal penalty	Death
Victims	16
Span of crimes	December 1827 - October 31, 1828
Country	United Kingdom
State	Scotland
Date apprehended	November 1, 1828

Victims

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Name	Age	Disappeared	Body Found	Cause of Death

Documentaries

YouTube Documentaries

• Burke and Hare – The Anatomy Murderers, Biographics on YouTube

Podcasts

• Burke and Hare - Part 1. Serial Killers with Greg Polcyn & Vanessa Richardson.
• Burke and Hare - Part 2. Serial Killers with Greg Polcyn & Vanessa Richardson.

In popular culture

Film adaptations

• The Anatomist (1956) on IMDb
• Burke & Hare (1972) on IMDb
• Burke and Hare (2010) on IMDb

Related Articles

• The Burke and Hare murders
  • William Hare

See also

• London Burkers

Links

• Burke and Hare murders at Wikipedia
• William Burke. Radford University.