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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.

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 ...

Otherwise, I focused on William Burke’s partner Helen MacDougal, Hare’s wife Margaret, and Susan, the wife of Robert Knox, the anatomist who bought the bodies from the killers.