Janelle and Vicky are on a bit of a break, but in the meantime we present our virtual show for the 2020 Elgin Fringe Festival. If you missed it last year, we have it here for you now! Join BTC as we talk about the long standing and ever great tradition of body snatching.
Research Links here!:
–“The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh’s Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes” by Lisa Rosner
-“The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Reveled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime” by Judith Flanders.
-Brown, Michael, and Caroline McCracken-Flesher. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 86, no. 4, 2012, pp. 690–691. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26305905. Accessed 21 July 2020.
-Lefebure, Molly. “The Blind Beggar and the Discharged Soldier: A Partnership.” The Wordsworth Circle, vol. 26, no. 2, 1995, pp. 87–97. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24044422. Accessed 21 July 2020.
-George MacGregor, The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times (Glasgow: T. D. Morison, 1884)
-“BBC NEWS: UK: England: Staffordshire: Police Comb Desecrated Grave Site.” BBC NEWS | UK | England | Staffordshire | Police Comb Desecrated Grave Site, 9 Oct. 2004, web.archive.org/web/20150403195214/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/3728980.stm.
-“Body Snatching.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 3 Aug. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_snatching.
-“Nurse Admits Stealing Body Parts, Forging Papers.” Relias Media – Continuing Medical Education Publishing, 1 Mar. 2008, www.reliasmedia.com/articles/10611-nurse-admits-stealing-body-parts-forging-papers.
-Patterson, Randall. “How Michael Mastromarino Illegally Harvested and Sold Body Parts — New York Magazine – Nymag.” New York Magazine, New York Magazine, 6 Oct. 2006, nymag.com/news/features/22326/.
-Superior Court of Pennsylvania. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee v. Michael MASTROMARINO, Appellant. 21 July 2010, caselaw.findlaw.com/pa-superior-court/1532363.html.
-Wilson, Kate, et al. “Skin & Bone: The Shadowy Trade In Human Body Parts.” The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, 2012, web.archive.org/web/20150911221911/www.icij.org/sites/icij/files/skinbone_4.pdf.
