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Body Snatcher
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Body Snatcher
A person who illegally removes a dead body from a grave or vault, usually for profit. The practice was common in the 19th century due to demand for cadavers for medical students studying human anatomy


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Byline: Nancy Sheehan COLUMN: TEN THINGS TO DO We could go on and on about how great Worcester novelist Jack O'Connell's fourth novel, a dark thriller titled "The Resurrectionist," is but then you would just accuse us of local literati aggrandizement and, eeuuww, that would smart.
22) First, however, a summary of why Bradshaw and Disley went dead or missing might be instructive to future resurrectionists.
Frankenstein becomes complicit in the crimes of the Doomsday men, or Resurrectionists.
 
 
 
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