The Bodysnatchers
Small Town Dicks
Audio 99
4.7 • 10K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Your favorite Scottish detective, retired chief constable Tom, brings us a gruesome case from the 1820s of how two depraved criminals went on a year-long killing spree while the rich and powerful of Edinburgh, Scotland all but turned a blind eye. Ultimately, the crimes of these two men brought about police reforms and social change but not before there were bodies everywhere.
Guest detective: Ret. Deputy Chief Constable Tom
Ret. Deputy Chief Constable Tom was one of Scotland’s most senior police officers. A graduate of Edinburgh University and The FBI Academy, his last role was as commander of a linked murder investigation, commonly known as The World's End Murders. He writes a regular "Inside Justice'' column for The Scotsman newspaper and has authored several books, including "The World's End Murders: The Final Verdict" and a groundbreaking study of forensic science called "Ruxton: The First Modern Murder." He is currently working on a new book examining the sex industry. He lives in Edinburgh.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy. |
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| 0:46.0 | It's a case about a series of murders that happened nearly two centuries ago. |
| 0:51.0 | The time frame makes this episode obviously a departure from our |
| 0:55.2 | regular format, but to be honest, murder in the 1820s is shockingly similar to |
| 1:01.9 | murder in the 2020s, and so are the motives. |
| 1:06.5 | As I was listening back to the final edit of this episode, it reminded me a little bit of |
| 1:11.2 | the legend of Sleepy Hollow. |
| 1:13.8 | I don't know why. |
| 1:14.7 | I mean, nobody's headless in this story. |
| 1:17.6 | At least, not at first. |
| 1:20.0 | But I could practically smell the squaller |
| 1:22.3 | and the rot of dead bodies that turn up in droves in this case. |
| 1:27.0 | It's a tale of two low-lifes named Burke and |
| 1:35.0 | to work, |
| 1:40.0 | to work and to make it worse, the rich and |
| 1:42.0 | and to make it worse, |
| 1:41.0 | the rich and powerful of Edinburgh at the time, we're in on it. |
| 1:46.0 | What's that saying? |
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