<prompt> Burking is: September 2012SuicidalAccidentalHomicidalNone of the above  <response>: Ans. C i.e. Homicidal The Burke and Hare murders West Po murders were a series of murders committed in Edinburgh, Scotland over a period of about ten months in 1828. The killings were attributed to Irish immigrants William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses of their 16 victims to Doctor Robe Knox as dissection material for his well-attended anatomy lectures. Burke and Hares accomplices were Burkes mistress, Helen McDougal, and Hares wife, Margaret Laird. From their method of killing their victims came the word burking, meaning to smother and compress the chest of a murder victim, and a derived meaning, to suppress something quietly 