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From The Vault: Manufacturing Cadavers: The Burke And Hare Murders

Podcast: Profiles In Eccentricity
Published: Dec 18, 2025
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Summary

Johnboy tells the lads about the tawdry, tasteless, tacky saga of the men who killed lodgers and drifters in 19th century Edinburgh to gain measly sums selling the bodies to anatomical scientists all while everyone is absolutely shitfaced on whiskey!