The murder of Fanny Adams in 1867 was a shocking event, not just in her sleepy town of Alton, but throughout the United Kingdom and beyond.
Little could anyone back then have known that the death would spawn a saying still used over 100 years later.

Today we're looking back at the tragic case and visiting some of the locations where this horrific event took place.

00:00 Introduction. Who was Fanny Adams?
00:43 Fanny's family and the town of Alton.
02:28 The Day of the Murder A day playing turns to tragedy
07:26 A search party is formed and remains are found
09:40 Frederick Baker is arrested
12:30 Frederick Back is found guilty and sentenced to death.
13:28 The origins of the term 'Sweet Fanny Adams'
13:56 Outro; far from nothing.