In this week’s true-crime-adjacent Halloween special, Tyler and Devan talk to Darian Goldin Stahl about the infamous grave robbers William Burke and William Hare, who murdered 16 people in order to sell their corpses to the anatomist Robert Knox for dissection. Darian walks us through the story as well as what has changed in the procurement and use of cadavers in medical education.

• See more of Darian’s art here

• Read Devan and Darian’s book, Imaging and Imagining Illness

• Read more about body brokers (Reuters)

• Mary Roach’s book, Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers

• Read more about skin books