253 | Fleshmanian Devil: Alexander Pearce "The Tasmanian Cannibal"
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🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Alexander Pearce was an Irish convict and thief who was sentenced to seven years of hard labor on Sarah Island, the Macquarie Harbour on the west coast of Tasmania in March 1822. Shortly after his arrival, Pearce and seven other inmates escaped and became fugitives. Pearce later confessed to killing the other men with an axe and eating their remains for sustenance and survival. Pearce was found guilty of murder and hanged in the Hobart Town Jail on July 19, 1824.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey John, it's Malachai again, and I think I have another really good story for you. |
| 0:05.0 | But first, I have to ask just one question. |
| 0:08.0 | How many days do you think you could go without food or water desperately hungry before you decide you have to eat |
| 0:16.4 | Nicole. Wait, what? That's a weird question. |
| 0:21.7 | Um, probably about two days. |
| 0:24.1 | I also recently discovered where John would actually kill me where he would |
| 0:35.6 | dispose of my body among the dirt and trees trust me you have not discovered that no |
| 0:39.9 | we've discussed this we've discussed where you would keep hiding my body. |
| 0:45.8 | Where? There is a something that has to do with the military. |
| 0:51.0 | Don't tell people, shit, because now they're going to know where my dead body |
| 0:56.1 | will be found. |
| 0:58.1 | Okay. |
| 1:00.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.1 | Yeah. My body will be found a. |
| 1:02.3 | All right, well at least I know where to visit you. We found. Yeah, my body will be found in |
| 1:04.6 | All right, well at least I know where to visit you. We found a couple heads there before. |
| 1:06.1 | Oh, of like wives. |
| 1:08.9 | Cheating wives. |
| 1:09.9 | Well, you sent me treating. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm still supposed. |
| 1:12.2 | Well, I ain't be cheating, so. |
| 1:14.8 | Well I ain't be a wife, so. |
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