The Tale of Corpsewood Manor

• 💡 Charles Scutter, a former university professor, and his partner Joey, built a remote home named Corpsewood Manor in Georgia, living an off-the-grid lifestyle.
• 🏠 The manor featured a unique "chicken coop" with a "pink room" or "pleasure chamber" used for intimate encounters.
• 😈 Charles, an atheist, used satanic imagery to provoke locals, and the manor became a hangout spot known for its unconventional atmosphere.
• 🔪 Two individuals, Tony West and Kenneth Avery Brock, were drawn to the manor, leading to a violent robbery and the murders of Charles, Joey, and their two dogs.
• 💀 The killers were eventually caught, and their defense that Charles and Joey were devil worshippers was rejected by the jury.

The Murders of Burke and Hare

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 William Burke and William Hare, Irish immigrants in Edinburgh, Scotland, became notorious for murdering individuals to sell their bodies for anatomical dissection.
• 💀 Instead of grave robbing, they killed people before burial, supplying fresh corpses to anatomists like Dr. Robert Knox, who paid for the bodies without asking questions.
• 💰 The pair escalated from selling bodies of those who died naturally to murdering at least 16 people, including vulnerable individuals, to meet the high demand for anatomical subjects.
• ⚖️ The murders were discovered when a lodger's body was found hidden in Burke's home, leading to their arrest and the exposure of their crimes.
• 💀 William Burke was hanged and his body publicly dissected, while William Hare was released and driven out of Scotland.
• 📚 The story of Burke and Hare highlights the demand for anatomical subjects in 19th-century Edinburgh and the dark economy that arose from it.