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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.
Amelia Dyer: United Kingdom: 1879–1896: 6–400+ Baby farmer who strangled the babies in her care. Hanged. [158] 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 ...
"Reading Baby Farmer" – Amelia Dyer "Red Phantom" – Alternate nickname of the Zodiac Killer. Unsolved "Red Ripper" – Andrei Chikatilo "Redneck Charles Manson" – Donald Henry Gaskins "Rest Area Killer" – Donald Leroy Evans "Rhein-Ruhr Ripper" – Frank Gust "Ripper Jayanandan" – K. P. Jayanandan "Rio Bravo Assassin" – Pedro Padilla ...
A phantasmal woman seen lurking outside a jury room is believed by some to be that of nurse Amelia Dyer, dubbed the Ogress of Reading. Old Bailey hauntings: Victorian baby killer, ghostly ...
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.
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 ...
Amelia Dyer; H. James Holloway (conspirator) Y. Robert Yeamans This page was last edited on 22 April 2013, at 14:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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