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Episode 447: Burke & Hare Part 1
Morbid
The Mystery of the First Victim of Birkenhair
It's one thing to sell the body of a man who dies by natural causes and settle you with the death. It's quite another thing to systematically seek out a particular type of victim and murder them purely to be paid. According to Birken, the first victim of their scheme was Abigail Simpson. Hairs Confession identifies the first victim as a man named Joseph. So it's like whether they were first or not. Well they probably killed so many people that that's why there's a discrepancy.
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