Let's hope your gut is wrong about this.
Todd can be redeemed without dying even if, say, he was responsible for someone else's death. Saving a life would do the trick. It's really good that Todd's mysterious past that changed him so drastically is being explored at last. Stuart Blackburn promised that but failed to deliver.
All the soap mags hinting at something tells us nothing really. They always over-dramatise every detail to try and sell more copies and - unless they have proof that says otherwise - are just regurgitating what the Corrie publicity department have told them in order to keep us guessing.