002 - The Burke Pocketbook

Shan fills Jaybee in on all the gruesome details of the Burke and Hare murders, and the horrific ways they're remembered in some museum collections. We're talking human leather (ew). Grave robbing, dissection, and human salads. Listen if you dare.

Resources:

Listen to another podcast! https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/most-notorious-a-true-crime-history-podcast/e/50827518

http://www.businessinsider.com/book-bound-in-serial-killers-human-skin-2014-11

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-lindsey-fitzharris/holding-a-book-bound-in-human-skin_b_3772196.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27903742

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/exm3bk/binding-books-with-human-skin-135

https://books.google.ca/books?id=8LoDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=burke+and+hare&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjy_o3QkI3aAhUD2IMKHRztDdM4ChDoAQgzMAM#v=onepage&q=burke%20and%20hare&f=false

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/feb/01/burke-hare-masks

https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/all-news/anatomy-280212

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-death-mask-of-william-burke-47205

Find "The Anatome Murders" &c by Lisa Rosner in a library near you:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/anatomy-murders-being-the-true-and-spectacular-history-of-edinburghs-notorious-burke-and-hare-and-of-the-man-of-science-who-abetted-them-in-the-commission-of-their-most-heinous-crimes/oclc/320800017