29.8: Murder for Resurrection

Occult Confessions by Robert C. Thompson

Apr 3, 202601:00:34Comedy

William Burke and William Hare murdered sixteen people in the space of about a year in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. Burke was thirty-six and Hare twenty-one-years old. Many of their victims were plied with alcohol un...

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