The Specimens

Inside the the grand walls of Edinburgh's nineteeth-century scientific institutions, anatomists began to map the secrets of the human body and led to the gruesome act of graveyard bodysnatching. But when stealing cadavers turns to murder, Burke & Hare became the most notorious serial killers of their time. This is the story of those grim events, told for the first time through the eyes of Susan and Helen (Nelly), two women caught up in those horrific times.