body snatching

An account of how counterfeiter Benjamin Boyd's gang stole the body of Abraham Lincoln and demanded Boyd's release from jail and two hundred thousand dollars as ransom and the efforts of the Secret Service to recover the remains.

Armed with shovels and crowbars, thieves throughout history have unearthed graves out of greed, hunger, and curiosity, recounts little-known stories of body snatchers and crooks of the crypt, from Jamestown, Virginia, to Sipan, Peru.

Looks at grave robbing and body snatching throughout history.

When her mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical research.

Team Rocket stole they key and locked up Pikachu! They put Pikachu in a cage and gave the stolen key to Wobbuffet. But Wobbuffet-- the clumsy blue Pokemon--took off and is lost in the woods. How can Ash and the gang save Pikachu with the only key?.

An account of how counterfeiter Benjamin Boyd's gang stole the body of Abraham Lincoln and demanded Boyd's release from jail and two hundred thousand dollars as ransom and the efforts of the Secret Service to recover the remains.

Examines religious, economic, scientific, and political motives for body snatching and grave robbing.

Body snatching is the act of digging up bodies from graveyards. This creepy practice was at its most prevalent in the 1800s.when doctors paid for bodies so that they could learn about human anatomy. Readers will be amazed by bizarre accounts of famous body snatchers and how they were brought to justice.

Gustine, a fifteen-year-old prostitute in nineteenth-century England, agrees to procure the dead bodies of victims of the bubonic plague for surgeon Henry Chiver to use in his anatomy school in exchange for his care of her baby boy, who was born with a remarkable anatomical defect, but her loyalty to the doctor is challenged by his growing greed and his obsession with the child.