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About Edward Broughton
Edward Broughton was an English convict turned serial killer who was transported to Van Diemen's Land for fourteen years for house-breaking. He escaped from Sarah Island in Macquarie Harbour with four other convicts and he later confessed to murdering three of his companions and resorting to cannibalism. He and the other survivor Matthew MacAlboy were hanged in Hobart for their crimes.
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- serial killer
- Born
- 1803
- Died
- August 5, 1831