Burke and Hare murders doctors, the Burkes and Hares were charged with murder. As part of his investigation Christison interviewed Knox, who asserted that Burke and Hare had watched poor lodging houses in Edinburgh and purchased bodies before anyone claimed them for burial. Christison thought Knox was "deficient in principle and heart", but did not think he had broken the law. Although the police were sure murder had taken place, and that at least one of the four was guilty, they were uncertain whether they could secure a conviction. Police also suspected there had been other murders committed, but the lack of bodies hampered
Babes in the Wood murders (Wild Park) clear that the forensic samples taken as "tapings" in 1986 had been so carefully handled by the police and so well preserved by scientists that Altman could present them as a "time capsule" that proved Bishop's guilt. On December 10, 2018, after a nine-week trial at the Central Criminal Court — better known as the Old Bailey — with a jury of seven men and five women, they returned a guilty verdict after two-and-a-half hours of deliberation. Babes in the Wood murders (Wild Park) The Babes in the Wood Murders were the murders of two 9-year-old girls, Nicola Fellows and