Knox did not deal with Burke and Hare directly. The pair were paid £7 10 shillings for Donald’s body – that's roughly £508 in today's money. Image caption, A contemporary sketch of William ...

It's 1828, the time of one of Edinburgh's most infamous stories, the notorious killing spree of Burke and Hare. It's well known they murdered 16 innocent people, but I'm planning to use historical ...