Edinburgh Phrenological Society It was denounced as an attack on faith and morals... read today, it must be regarded as really rather more orthodox in its teaching than some of the lucubrations of the Dean of St Paul's and the Bishop of Durham". Phrenologists from the Society applied their methods to the Burke and Hare murders in Edinburgh. Over the course of ten months in 1828, Burke and Hare murdered sixteen people and sold the bodies for dissection in anatomy lectures. Burke was executed on 28 January 1829, while Hare turned King's evidence; Burke was publicly dissected by Professor Monro the next day,
The "Frenchman's Garden" Murders The "Frenchman's Garden" Murders The Frenchman's Garden Murders were a series of 6 murders that were perpetrated in the town of Peñaflor, Province of Seville, Spain, between 1989 and 1904. The crimes were committed by Andrés Aldije Monmejá, known as "El Francés" for being a native of Agen, France, and José Muñoz Lopera. Both men had set up an illegal gambling house, robbing and murdering some of the visitors. After being condemned to the death penalty, both were executed by garrote on October 31, 1906 in the Pópulo Prison of Seville. Based on these facts, the film director Paul Naschy