Burke & Hare: The West Port Murders

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The story of William Burke and William Hare, two Irish men living in Edinburgh in 1827, who spied an opportunity to make money through murder. Now known as simply the Burke and Hare murders or The West Port Murders, this is dark history that took advantage of a very unique and grisly opportunity. For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories Connect with me at Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories Or you can contact me direct via email at [email protected] Music was recorded by me © 2017 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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