#robert knox

Aside from "incompetent handyman roleplay" what would you say is the funniest way you've ever killed a target in a Hitman level?

A recent one I pulled off:

When it comes to Cushing’s portrayal of Dr. Knox, I can’t quite decide whether he’d get along well with Cushing!Victor Frankenstein, or whether they would rip each other’s throats out. At least they can both appreciate the finer delicacies of sassy divaness and experimenting on bodies that were acquired through shady means 🤭

Robert Knox – Scientist of the Day

Robert Knox, a Scottish surgeon, died Dec. 20, 1862, at age 71. 

Poor little guy, nobody taking them seriously, even when one is right in front of them!

To cover the man’s outstanding debt the pair weighed his coffin down with tanning bark prior to his funeral and took his body to the medical school at Edinburgh University where they were swiftly pointed in the direction of Professor Robert Knox, a popular anatomy lecturer. Knox paid the duo seven pounds and ten shillings for Donald’s body.

Encouraged by the ease with which they had made this money, the pair struck again in early 1828 when another tenant named Joseph became ill. Too impatient to see if Joseph would actually die from his afflictions, Burke and Hare took it upon themselves to help him along – plying him with whisky and then suffocating him by covering his mouth and nose while he was forcibly restrained. This became their favoured method of execution as it left the body unmarked and undamaged for the students who were later to dissect the cadavers.

William Burke was hanged at Lawnmarket in front of a boisterous, cheering crowd of over 25,000 on 28 January 1829 and, fittingly perhaps, after being put on public display, his body was donated to medical science.

A number of anatomy students took ghoulish souvenirs of his skin, even using it to bind books and card holders. Burke’s skeleton is still on display at Surgeon’s Hall in Edinburgh next to his death mask and the life mask of Hare’s face.