Horror, Sleaze and Trash.

In 1867, an 8-year-old girl named Fanny Adams was found by horrified villagers in the following pieces:

• Her bloody head, stuck on a hop-pole with the eyes gouged out and one ear tore off.
• Her chest, severed at the diaphragm, with the heart scooped out.
• Her arms, deposited separately, with two copper pence pieces clutched in one hand.
• One foot, dropped in a field of clover.
• Her eyes, recovered from the nearby River Wey.
• Her heart, lying on it’s own.

It is believed that the river discarded the rest of her remains. The man who committed the brutal murder was Frederick Baker, who, while on his lunch break at work, walked through the meadows and stumbled across Fanny Adams with two of her friends, who he made go home. He then lured Fanny to a field and bludgeoned her with a large rock. He then dismembered the young girl with a small pocketknife, had a beer, and returned to his officer, where he wrote in his diary: “Killed a young girl. It was fine and hot.” He was quickly apprehended and hanged at Winchester.