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	Podcast:		Criminalia
	Episode:		Burke, Hare, and the Anatomy Murders of Edinburgh
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:24:58
	Publish Date:		2022-05-03 01:32:40
	Description:		Contrary to popular belief, the famous body-snatching duo of William Burke and William Hare were not actually body snatchers. They never robbed graves at all -- they had their own way of supplying anatomists with fresh corpses, and it didn’t involve the graveyard. They simply killed people. And a new word was coined from the pair’s murderous practices: ‘burking'. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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