BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

This is an eye for a killing, the true story of Scotland's most notorious serial killers, burke and hair.

What are you looking for?

Looking for a body. Where have you moved it?

You've found nothing like that here.

Edinburgh in 1828 is one of the leading centres of medical training and dissection in the Western world.

To teach anatomy, you need bodies.

Cadavers on which to demonstrate in practice.

Where do you get them?

From the poor, unclaimed in hospital,

from criminals legally executed,

and from the resurrectionists,

men whose job it is to dig up graves by night

and sell the contents to the anatomists,

or as they'd call them, the doctors.

Burk and hair. you might have heard their names

you might also have heard that they were

19th century grave robbers

they weren't

they didn't dig up a single body

they simply murdered for cash

16 times

...