Episode 16: Burke and Hare
from Lawlessscotland's Podcast Hosted by Seonaid Barr
Up the close and doon the stair, But and ben’ wi’ Burke and Hare. Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the thief, Knox the boy that buys the beef. The Burke and Hare murders were a series of 16 killings committed between 1827-1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures. Enjoy s
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