Good evening. This is crime classics. I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime.

Listen. That's a pair of scissors, hand wrought in gold in the shape of a peacock.

The young lady who's using them is trimming her husband's beard.

The beard has just been washed to get the blood out of it.

For, a few hours ago, out on the bounding main,

her husband stabbed a few fellows from up close.

And the beard has been perfume too,

to get the gunpowder and sulfur smells out of it,

because there's just been a battle.

And now the beard is being trimmed before curling because her husband is very vain about

his beard.

It is a black beard which caused some 18th century pundit to dub him black beard.

His real name, Edward Teach, a profession, pirate.

His wife, Hannah.

Hannah's all done.

The beards all ready for curling.

Such a good wife.

Oh, no, she wasn't.

Tonight, my report to you on Blackbeard's 14th wife.

Why, she was no good for it.

Crime Classics.

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