Burke and Hare

William Burke and Billy Hare were a pair of murderers who killed their victims in order to provide bodies for anatomical study. The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe once encountered them. (AUDIO: Medicinal Purposes)
While aboard the SS Marie Antoinette in 1890s London, Clara Oswald referred to the ship's crew of Clockwork Droids as "Burke and Hare from space", because those clockwork robots had likewise been committing murders in order to harvest organs from the victims. (TV: Deep Breath)
Category:Human murderers