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Burke and Hare murdered two lodgers in June, "an old woman and a dumb boy, her grandson", as Burke later recalled in his confession. [56] While the boy sat by the fire in the kitchen, his grandmother was murdered in the bedroom by the usual method. Burke and Hare then picked up the boy and carried him to the same room where he was also killed.
Earl Conrad Bramblett (March 20, 1942 – April 9, 2003) was an American mass murderer, convicted for the killing of four members of the Hodges family in August 1994 in Vinton, Virginia.
Cold Case Files detailed the case in a 2001 episode titled "Daddy Knows Best". [3] Forensic Files also depicted the case in a 2004 episode titled "A Daughter's Journey". [1] My Favorite Murder discussed the case in a 2019 episode titled "Live at the W.L. Lyons Brown Theater in Louisville" [8]
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"The Body Snatcher" is a short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). First published in The Pall Mall Gazette in December 1884, its characters were based on criminals in the employ of the surgeon Robert Knox (1791–1862) around the time of the notorious Burke and Hare murders in 1828.
The cold case known as the "Crazy Killers of Brabant" revolves around two waves of deadly supermarket robberies carried out between 1982 and 1985, killing 28 people including children.
I can't quite reconcile the figures of the murdered you give in the last paragraph: 9 in Hare's house, 2 in the stables, 4 in Burke's brother's house. Not counting the woman Hare murdered and sold without Burke's complicity, I make the reckoning as follows:
After Smith was identified as the suspect in Hare’s murder, an arrest warrant was issued on charges of first-degree murder, armed robbery, shooting at or from a motor vehicle, tampering with ...