The above photograph shows a tube containing a small piece of William Burke’s brain,
a criminal hanged in 1829 for murdering 16 people along with his accomplice, William Hare. The corpses of their victims were sold by Burke and Hare to Dr Robert Knox, a renowned professor in anatomy at the time who was aware of the illegal proceedings, as dissection material for his well-attended lectures. A popular rhyme was derived in remembrance of these crimes: ‘Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the thief, Knox the boy who buys the beef.’
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The mutilated corpse of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, the murder is still unsolved. He died on November 2, 1975, a few days before his highly controversial final film: Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom was scheduled to be released.
The Teeth recovered after serial killer Belle Gunness’ farm house burnt down, her dentist confirmed that these teeth belonged to Belle and that she must have died in the fire that consumed her property. It is thought that Belle had used these teeth to fake her own death, dressing a female corpse in her clothes and placing her false teeth next to them, ensuring the body would be incorrectly identified as herself.
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