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    “Burke and Hare realised that Edinburgh's surgeons would pay hard cash for bodies”

    Mar 16, 2023 2 minutes

    PROFESSOR LISA ROSNER (left), historical consultant on a new radio series about the crimes of William Burke and William Hare, talks to us about their 19th-century murder spree

    Burke and Hare murdered at least 16 people in 1828. What drove them to commit these crimes?

    They absolutely did it

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