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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.
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 ...
Dyer, Amelia: 1869–1896 6 400+ Executed in 1896 Known as "The Ogress of Reading"; baby farmer who murdered infants in her care [26] Erskine, Kenneth: 1986 7 11 Sentenced to life imprisonment Known as "The Stockwell Strangler"; gerontophile who murdered elderly citizens in London [27] Grieveson, Steven: 1990–1994 4 4+ Sentenced to life ...
Amelia Dyer – serial killer of children (1896) Stacy Keach – actor, served six months after being arrested for cocaine smuggling (1984) Anthony Joshua – professional boxer, spent two weeks in HM Prison Reading (2009)
Muriel McKay was kidnapped and held for ransom in 1969 but her remains were never discovered
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.
Renewed Investigations by Scotland Yard in 2011 led to dozens of arrests for activities related to the phone hacking scandal. This list of persons arrested in phone-hacking scandal is a chronological listing of individuals arrested in conjunction with the illegal acquisition of confidential information by employees and other agents of news media companies referred to as the "phone hacking ...
Aaron Dyer, an attorney for Combs, described Monday's searches as "gross overuse of military-level force." Neither Combs nor any of his family members have been arrested, Dyer noted in his statement.