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Amelia Dyer was born the youngest of five (with three brothers – Thomas, James and William – and a sister, Ann) in the small village of Pyle Marsh, [2] just east of Bristol, the daughter of master shoemaker Samuel Hobley and Sarah Hobley (née Weymouth). Amelia learned to read and write and developed a love of literature and poetry.
The ghostly figure of a Victorian murderess is among the spectres believed to wander the halls of the Old Bailey. Nurse Amelia Dyer was aged 58 when she was hanged at the Newgate Prison on June 10 ...
Notorious Bristol "baby farmer" Amelia Dyer spent six months at Shepton Mallet Prison. Her trial was held at Long Ashton on 29 August 1879, and two newspapers report the summing-up of the judge, stating that she would reflect on her actions behind the walls of Shepton Mallet Gaol, for the period of six months under hard labour.
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In a broader, international context, Dean's misdeeds may also have been viewed in the same light as late Victorian contemporaries and fellow "baby farmers" such as Amelia Dyer in the United Kingdom (convicted in 1896) and John and Sarah Makin (1893) and Frances Lydia Alice Knorr in New South Wales (1893), as well as previous New Zealand ...
A convicted killer signed a $50,000 (£40,000) deal with his victim’s family to finally reveal what happened to her body, having kept it secret for more than 50 years.. Nizamodeen Hosein was ...
The birth parents of an 8-month-old girl subject of a now-canceled Florida Amber Alert were arrested Wednesday after police officers and a SWAT team retrieved her safely from a home in Broward County.
Amelia Dyer: United Kingdom: 1879–1896: 6–400+ Baby farmer who strangled the babies in her care. Hanged. [159] Alexe Popova: Russia: 1879–1909: 300: Samara poisoner for hire who was employed by women in unhappy marriages. After her arrest, she confessed to having poisoned some 300 men in a 30-year period but was adamant that she had never ...