Burke and Hare murders Elizabeth Byrd used the events in her novels "Rest Without Peace" (1974) and "The Search for Maggie Hare" (1976). The murders have also been portrayed on stage and screen, usually in heavily fictionalised form. David Paterson, Knox's assistant, contacted Walter Scott to ask the novelist if he would be interested in writing an account of the murders, but he declined, despite Scott's long-standing interest in the events. Scott later wrote: Burke and Hare murders The Burke and Hare murders were a series of 16 killings committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were
Malexander murders also sentenced for war-crimes, including torture of Muslim prisoners, which he had committed during the civil war in the ex-Yugoslavia as part of a Croatian paramilitary group. Olsson was confined to the Hall Prison. During the night between 27 and 28 July 2004, he escaped from his jail, but was captured 2 days later. Malexander murders The Malexander murders () were the murders of two police officers, Robert Karlström and Olov Borén, at Malexander, Sweden on 28 May 1999. The murders were committed after a bank robbery in Kisa earlier that day. Three men were convicted of the crimes, Tony