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Chrissy Sienickel

Oct 8, 2026

4:34
I mean, I understand what you were saying, that criminals could then, when they pass away, donate their body to these medical schools, and that was a law, but why weren't, you know, maybe, should I say regular people, you know, like the people that were not criminals, how come they just couldn't donate their bodies, you know, to science when they passed away then?
5:00
Well, the criminals weren't donating.
5:02
It was allowed, like, against their will, and, and they did not want it.
5:07
It was, um, akin to hanging from a gibbet, which is like you hang a body from a cage publicly, a practice that went on in Europe for a long, long time.
5:17
It was a way of shaming.
5:19
So for example, now this is not a-- This is a grave robber, but also a murderer.
5:24
So, uh, the most famous grave, uh, like, body snatcher people were actually two mu- murderers.
8:12
Okay, so how did the body snatchers go about stealing bodies? Was it really they just went to a graveyard, and they had, you know, a shovel, and they just spent that time digging them up? How'd they do that?

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