William Burke and William Hare

True Crime All The Time

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True Crime, Truecrime, Podcast, Documentary, Murder, Exhibit C, Serial, Killers, Society & Culture

4.7 • 13.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

William Burke and William Hare were killers who murdered victims in the city of Edinburgh and sold the bodies to an anatomist who needed cadavers for lessons. They killed at least sixteen people in one year, but their greed made them reckless, and they were ultimately caught.

Join Mike and Gibby as they talk about Burke and Hare. Graverobbing was a big thing many years ago, so much so that some people hired guards to make sure their loved one's bodies were not disturbed. Burke and Hare discovered they could make a lot of money selling bodies to a local doctor. But they took their plan to the extreme, decided to cut out the graverobbing, and began killing people on their own.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Hannah. And I'm Siruti. And we are the hosts of Red-handed, a weekly true-crime podcast.
0:05.7	Every week on Red-handed, we get stuck into the most talked about cases.
0:09.2	From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders, and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga.
0:15.0	Last year we also started a second weekly show shorthand which is just an excuse for us to
0:19.9	talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like.
0:22.8	We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood,
0:27.0	the gruesome history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction.
0:33.0	Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior.
0:38.0	Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized?
0:40.0	What drives a child to kill?
0:42.0	And what's the psychology of a terrorist?
0:44.4	Listen to Red-handed wherever you get your podcasts and access our bonus short hand episodes
0:48.8	exclusively on Amazon music or by subscribing to Wundry Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wundry App. Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to episode 391 of the True Crime All the Time podcast.
1:34.8	I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in True Crime, Mike Gibson.
1:38.9	How are you?
1:39.9	Hey, I'm doing good.
1:40.9	How about you? I'm doing great.
1:41.9	You and I just had a little pizza before recording.
1:46.0	Yeah, from my country.
1:49.0	Of Italy.
1:50.0	Italia.
1:51.0	Italia.
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