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
Babes in the Wood murders (Wild Park) clear that the forensic samples taken as "tapings" in 1986 had been so carefully handled by the police and so well preserved by scientists that Altman could present them as a "time capsule" that proved Bishop's guilt. On December 10, 2018, after a nine-week trial at the Central Criminal Court — better known as the Old Bailey — with a jury of seven men and five women, they returned a guilty verdict after two-and-a-half hours of deliberation. Babes in the Wood murders (Wild Park) The Babes in the Wood Murders were the murders of two 9-year-old girls, Nicola Fellows and