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Up the close and doon the stair,

But and ben’ wi’ Burke and Hare.

Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the thief,

Knox the boy that buys the beef.

The Burke and Hare murders were a series of 16 killings committed between 1827-1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures.

 

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Hey Guys 

As I am working hard to get out to you a new international series (and I want to do it justice!) I have spent a bit more time focusing on researching this time round. So I have for you another court round up along with a little bit of chit chat.

 

This one blew my mind that I had no idea this had happened. 100% this guy was something not right. Less murder more creeper. 

 

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Here's another Court round up to stuff your headphones with!

 

John sharp Snr was brutally killed in his own home over a cuppa Tea. By his own son!

What brought this guy to do this brutal horrible deed.

Lets find out!

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Welcome to the worlds end, "behind these walls is the worlds end". Never has the inscription on the walls of the Worlds end pub become more true than in 1977, for Christine Eadie and Helen Scott. Nearly 40 years after the horrific murders of the girls, a man was finally brought to justice. Join me in finding out who and dive right into his past, where only more murder and violence lies.

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This episode is all about two of the most famous groups of cannibals that lived in Scotland. Well as far as we can tell anyway!

These tales now things of myth and folklore, that we tell our children to scare them into behaving....Yeah some of us do that. 

 

Christie Cleek is a mythical Scottish cannibal who lived during a famine in the mid-fourteenth century. The legend of Sawney Bean first appeared in the British chapbooks(rumour magazines of the day). His family was an ever growing ever hungry, cannibal group of about 45-48 people strong! 

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