Killed a Young Girl. It Was Fine and Hot. | The Murder of Fanny Adams
On a sunny Saturday in 1867, eight-year-old Fanny Adams accepted a halfpenny from a friendly stranger… and never came home.
Hours later, her severed head was found impaled on hop poles. Her body had been torn apart. Her eyes thrown into the river. And in the killer’s diary, police discovered one chilling line: “Killed a young girl. It was fine and hot.”
This is the true story of the most shocking child murder of Victorian England — the crime so horrific it still echoes in the phrase “Sweet Fanny Adams.”
Hosted by Alexander Lawson.
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