The Slaughter

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Hi guys! Hello there. Welcome to episode 25 of Slaughter. We're still making them. Can't stop us.

Still knocking them out. So this week we're back to doing two stories for your listening pleasure and I'm

going to kick us off with two people as well. Oh shit.

William Burke and William Hair.

Will and Will.

Yeah.

I mean that's good for people with bad memories because you don't have to remember people's names

when you've met them. I will only be friends

with people with my own name. That's been my philosophy for most of my university years.

It is true, trying to organize Lucy's Hendo. I'm like, right, so I've messaged Lucy, but I also need to talk to Lucy, and then Lucy's sleeping over it. They're all got the same bloody name. My hen do's tomorrow, and I'm as organized it, and I'm so excited. Next week, if Lucy's doing this podcast on her own. It didn't go well.

So excited!

So, William Burke and William Hare.

Both of them were actually born in Northern Ireland but committed over 16 murders in Scotland during a 12 month period. So I'll start off with William Burke. He was born in

County Tyrone in Northern Ireland in 1792 and he was from a poor but respectable working class family. At age 19 he left to join the army and one of the books I read said he left to either become a fife or a drummer.

Which basically means he joined the band but could he play both and then?

It's like he had big hands and beautiful lips so he must have either played

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