Tonight's episode will be about the noble art of bodysnatching... with some murder and mayhem thrown in for good measure. There will be tales of graveyard hi-jinks, friendships to die for, and close curtain calls with death. So, please grab your nearest shovel so we can dig into the dark dealings of death and how much doctors were willing to pay in the name of science and discovery.

Music By: David Fesilyan & David Renda

Sources:

Sappol, Michael. “A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteeth Century America.”

Fitzharris, Lindsey “Coffin Collars and Cemetery Guns: Fortifying the Dead Against Bodysnatchers”

Hamlin, Hannibal. Yale Journal of Biology. “The Dissection Riot of 1824 and the Conneticut Anatomical Law” March 1935.

Woolens British Gazette. October 13, 1822. ‘Advertisement for Bridgeman’s Patent Wrought- Iron Coffin’

Ofgang, Eric. “When Yale Medical Students Robbed a Grave for Science New Haven Erupted in Fury” March 19, 2018 conneticutmag.com

National Museum of Civil War Medicine “A Brief History of American Anatomy Riots”. February 12, 2017. www.civilwarmed.org

Haas, Maya Wei. How Fetus Dissections in the Victorian Era Helped Shape Today’s Abortion Wars. Smithsonian Magazine.

Jones, Richard. ‘The Iron Coffin’ May 21, 2016

‘The Raven Report’ theravenreport.com September 18, 2017 “Welcome to the Grim Underworld of the Resurrectionist”

Richardson, Ruth. “Death, Dissection and the Destitute”

Documentaries:

Magnus Magnussen Investigates: Burke & Hare: Throughout the 18th Century. Living Legends. BBC. 1979.

Dan Cruickshank Investigates: From Bodysnatching to Burning: Victorian Way of Death Documentary. BBC Two. Timewatch. 2001.

Histories Mysteries: Bodysnatchers. History Channel. 2000.