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Secrets of serial killers who sold their victims’ bodies for dissection ‘revealed by wife’ at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
THE story of a serial killing duo who sold their victims' corpses for dissection will be told on stage for the first time 'through the words of one of their wives'.
During a 10-month killing spree, which started in November 1827, William Burke and William Hare slaughtered 16 at the lodging house run by Hare and his wife.
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