William Burke and William Hare
publication date: Sunday, November 17, 2024 (part of November 2024)
category: Crime
clue: Their Scottish murder spree changed the culture around medical dissection and cadaver donation, but not enough to keep one of them from being on display to this day in Edinburgh.
explanation: Over the course of 1828, Burke and Hare murdered sixteen people, mostly lodgers at their hotel in Edinburgh, and then sold the cadavers for medical research. The ensuing scandal forced Scotland to change its strict restrictions on donating human remains for medical research. Burke's skeleton remains on display at Edinburgh Medical School. more…
intended difficulty: easy
multiple: This goo was of multiple famous people. Players were required to guess all names for their answers to be correct.
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Denise Sawicki, and Aaron Shurtleff