History of Edinburgh the meantime the Old Town continued to decay into an increasingly dilapidated, overcrowded slum with high mortality rates, and was practically segregated socially from the rest of the city. This was especially true where the sub-division of tenements offered the cheapest lodgings in narrow alleyways that formed the backdrop to the infamous 'West Port Murders' of Burke and Hare. In 1865 Alexander Smith wrote of one of the poorest districts, The Cowgate is the Irish portion of the city. Edinburgh leaps over it with bridges: the inhabitants are morally and geographically the lower orders. They keep to their own quarters,
Eight Immortals Restaurant murders "Human Meat Roast Pork Buns". Eight Immortals Restaurant murders The Eight Immortals Restaurant murders, also known as the Eight Immortals murders or the Pork Bun murders, was an incident in which Macanese gambler Huang Zhiheng murdered a family of 10 in their restaurant. The murders were committed by Zhiheng after the family failed to repay gambling debts. The Eight Immortals Restaurant was a Chinese restaurant in the Portuguese colony of Macau. The modest eating establishment was connected to the Eight Immortals Hotel. The restaurant was owned and operated by Zheng Lin, a former street hawker who moved his business from