The crimes of Edinburgh’s Burke and Hare, who murdered 16 people in order to sell the corpses for medical research, have inspired countless books and even a grisly rhyme. Now author Mairi Kidd ...

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Dr Sam Caslin from Liverpool University visits Edinburgh in search of historical sources that explain the motivation for the notorious murders of Burke and Hare. The film looks at the expansion of ...

Jack Lowden tells the true story of Scotland's notorious serial killers, Burke and Hare. What started two former canal labourers on a mass killing spree in 19th-century Edinburgh?

Burke and Hare ran a lodging house, where they had access to itinerant and otherwise vulnerable victims, and the bodies disappeared into the anatomy theatres, leaving no evidence behind.