Sweeney Todd

astondog | 09:56 Wed 04th Jan 2006 | History

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Is there any evidence that he was a real person or just fiction, Cheers

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jno

seems he may have been real - see here

The prog was OK last anyway

Sweeney Todd was executed on 25th January, 1802, aged 53. The full story is spread over a dozen pages here:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/todd/in dex_1.html

Chris

he was real, i just read a book on him. and he was 46 when he was hanged in Newgate Prison. he was suspected on murdering over 160 people.

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