by DrEvil » Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:43 am
The "cover story" sounds perfectly plausible. Anatomy at the time was in its infancy, and getting your hands on corpses to dissect was hard, so they resorted to grave robbing. It was common enough that the people doing the robbing had a name: resurrection men. What doesn't sound plausible is "there were remains found buried on his property and he was a member of a Hellfire Club, ergo he murdered children". That's, to put it mildly, jumping to conclusions.
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