Edinburgh in the 1820s is the center of the Scottish Enlightenment and home to pioneering medical research. But it was also a city plagued by crime and one of its most infamous involved the owner of a lodging house named William Burke and the city's most prominent surgeon, Dr. Robert Knox. Join us on a "you-are-there" look at a cold-blooded horror story that shocked Edinburgh to its very core. Then, see how the city's newly formed police force made use of all the primitive forensics they had at their disposal to finally crack the case.

March 30, 1896. A bargeman heading for Reading on the River Thames spots a small package floating on the water. What he discovers inside will shock Victorian Britain and trigger a landmark investigation that will change the way the nation treats its most vulnerable. Witness the case of "baby farmer" Amelia Dyer, arguably Britain's most prolific serial killer, and see how Constable James Anderson, without the aid of modern forensics, was able to blow the case wide open using old school investigative techniques and a few crafty methods.