Filming was completed yesterday morning at the University of Edinburgh’s Anatomy Museum, home to William Burke’s skeleton and site of the Irish criminal’s dissection after his execution in 1829.
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Edinburgh makes a killing as Burke and Hare return to city streets
At the end of a long week in Edinburgh filming the movie Burke and Hare – a major Hollywood version of Scotland’s infamous tale of serial killing – the stars of the show, Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis, came face to face with the grisly remains of their murderous historical counterparts.
