1 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: Susan, how do you want to be introduced? 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 2: You can just use my first name if you don't mind, 3 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 2: and tell. 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: Me you know what your trepidation just is in general way. 5 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 2: I would hate for any member of our family to 6 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 2: have something bad happen just because we were unfortunately related 7 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 2: to a serial killer. 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: Susan's worried about this podcast even though her great great 9 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: great uncle died almost two hundred years ago. This is 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: season two of tenfold war wicked on exactly right. I 11 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: call this story the body Snatcher. Nineteenth century Scotland. Sixteen 12 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: helpless victims killed using a brilliant method. Two ruthless murderers, 13 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: but only one had a conscience, and one ambitious doctor, 14 00:00:55,720 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: doctor Robert Knox, who pioneered modern medicine in the laboratory. 15 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: Students wought to get into his classroom because he had 16 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: fresh bodies for them to dissect. 17 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 3: You don't have to make it more gory. It's already 18 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 3: to people that are killing people for money, It's gory enough. 19 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: This season is about discrediting myths. 20 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 3: You've got no idea who's telling the truth. If he 21 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 3: was a doctor, he must know that many people just 22 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 3: don't die. 23 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: It's about betrayal. 24 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 3: There's only one particular person who has a vendetta against 25 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,839 Speaker 3: Knocks at that point, he seems to have been the 26 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 3: only corps who had known that he was about to 27 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 3: be murdered. 28 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: It's about why William Burke and William Hare still matter. 29 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 3: They would have just gone into a grave and rotted 30 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 3: away because they were taken to Knox. They trained thousands 31 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:46,400 Speaker 3: of surgeons on them. 32 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: And how this story ends shocked everyone in nineteenth century Europe. 33 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: It even shocks me now. 34 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 2: These bodies have been had to hear probably the little 35 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 2: over year, and so they're almost all skeletonized. 36 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: It's quite shocking when you find out that there's a 37 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 1: mass murderer in your family tree and we literally have 38 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: a skeleton in the closet. But ultimately it's about a 39 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: family that just wants answers about the killer in their past. 40 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 2: So he had to have known that that's who was 41 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 2: in the tea chest, righty, wow, Wow, I never heard 42 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:26,799 Speaker 2: anything about this. 43 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: I'm Kate Winkler Dawson and this is season two of 44 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 1: Tenfold More Wicked, a podcast about the world's most famous 45 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: grave robbers who never actually robbed a grave. Season two 46 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: of Tenfold More Wicked premieres on Monday, January twenty fifth 47 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: on Exactly Right. Subscribe now on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, or 48 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: wherever you like to listen.