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On Christmas Eve 2019, you might be driving around desperately trying to find that perfect gift, but on Christmas Eve 1828 the only show in prohibition Edinburgh was the infamous trial of Burke and Hare. Not many people know this, but in fact it was only the trial of Burke and his common law wife Helen McDougal. Hare turned King鈥檚 evidence and was given immunity from prosecution. The family of one of his victims, Daft Jamie, tried in vain to take out a private prosecution against him, but a significant legal precedent was set when this was refused and Hare fled south of the border. Burke however, as the judge made sure, was subject to the same fate as their sixteen victims, landing on the dissection slab in the anatomy theatre. Denise comes face to face with Burke鈥檚 skeleton, talks through the legalities of body snatching with Marisa Haetzman, one half of the crime writing duo Ambrose Parry, and marvels at the culture legacy of these grim deeds with Ian Rankin, whose own novel The Falls has a bizarre twist on the case.