Same plot as 'I sell the dead'?

No they did not !
Not even once.

Unlike the film a Trial did take place on the 25th Dec 1828 in Parliament Hall. Hare was a witness for the Crown. He freed himself in doing so and therefore killed Burke too. The two women in involved one Scots the other Irish were freed. Burke gave two interviews while in prison, saying that he and Hare murdered around 16-18 people. {He did not keep records or a list of the order of those killed}
Both are similar but in a different order, he strongly denied being a grave robber. It's true that the first died owing rent money the second helped to die earlier and then the others followed. The first body was carried to find a surgeon but they met a student of Dr Knox who directed them to Dr Knox's door.
Daft Jamie was well known in Edinburgh's West Port as was a young beautiful prostitute, so lovely was she that her dead body was sketched. This still can be seen today. Burke's body was dissected his skeleton is still on view and his skin used to make a wallet.
There was in fact no evidence against the men none of the bodies had any violence done to them. Knox was 'Brilliant' but his body was disfigured and the man was often ridiculed by children. What happened to Knox could easily have happened to any surgeon of the time.
There but for the grace of God !

It's also true that the doctors had a lot of bodies and yet only a very few were available legally. "SO WHERE DID THE REST COME FROM"?

This was going on everywhere and not just in Edinburgh.
Result the law was changed.



Up the close and doon the stair
Ben the hoose wie Burke and Hare
Burke the butcher Hare the thief
Knox the man who buys the beef.

Love film love cinema keep the suits at bay.

Reminds me of the 1959 British movie, Mania (US title), with Peter Cushing, an academic doctor at Edinburgh University in the early half of the C19th who doesn't seem to care where the corpses he orders for his anatomy lectures from two rogues are coming from.