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Episode 447: Burke & Hare Part 1

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The Killing of Elizabeth Haldane

Elizabeth Haldane showed up at Harris boarding house sometime in early spring of 1828. Mark Burke found the woman sleeping off drink in a pile of straw in the stable. And retrieved more alcohol to give to her. Once she was sufficiently drunk and very unstable, they suffocated her with the usual manner and left her in the barn until the following day. A few months later, Elizabeth Haldane's daughter, Margaret, was also murdered by Burke alone.

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