Compact Murder
Burke and Hare
18:54
In 1828, William Burke and William Hare murdered people in Edinburgh and sold their bodies to an anatomy school. Behind their familiar names were victims with families, friendships and livelihoods, including Mary Paterson, James Wilson and Margaret Docherty. This episode of Compact Murder follows the trade that enabled the killings, the lodgers who exposed Docherty's concealed body and the…