pork pie murder?

[serendipity2]

Hi can anyone tell me if I am right in thinking there was a murder comitted by a woman who then made pork pies out of her victim it was shown on tv on Michael Winners true crimes i think?

[joko]

well thats the story of sweeney todd, which is not a true story, could that be it?

[serendipity2]

No this was a true storie I am sure.

[Richie1976]

Pork comes for pigs, not humans!!

[cheater123]

This is different to the one you heard but I have a crime book which has all newspaper articles in since about the 1800's and some butcher turned his murder victims into sausages!!!

[JamesEverton]

You might be thinking of an episode of 'Tales of the Unexpected' by Roald Dahl. Plot summary here:

http://www.roalddahlfans.com/shortstories/lamb .php

I don't think that there's any suggestion that this was based on a true story.

[GGM]

When I was a young girl in the forties, I read a book called Fifty Most Amazing Crimes, in which there was a story of a German butcher called (if I recall correctly) Fritz Harman or Harmann.

After murdering his victims he would use their flesh to make sausages and pies. He sold the pies as Pork Pies to his customers.

This happened in the late 1800s or early in the 1900s.

I have never heard of a woman who has committed the same crime but that is not to say, that there has not been such a case.

[Sado]

A girl disapeared in Blackburn some years ago. Two relatives were arrested for her murder. One was a butcher, the other worked at a nearby pie factory. It makes you wonder!

[deepseadiver]

Fanny Adams (Sweet Fanny Adams) was the child victim of a notorious Victorian murder case. Fanny (or Frances) Adams aged nine was murdered at Alton, Hants on 24 April 1867. The murderer (Frederick Baker, a solicitor's clerk, aged 24) cut the body up into pieces, some of which were allegedly found in Deptford Victualling Yard. Baker was tried at Winchester and hanged in December 1867. At about this time tinned mutton was introduced into the Navy and soon acquired the name of Fanny Adams. The tins were subsequently used by sailors as mess gear. The name "fanny" is still the Naval slang for a cooking pot as well as being used in the nickname sense.
Not what your looking for serendipity but i thought it was an interesting story