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  2. Amelia Dyer - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Old Bailey hauntings: Victorian baby killer, ghostly ...

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    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 ...

  4. HM Prison Shepton Mallet - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Lonely hearts killer - Wikipedia

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    Amelia Dyer (1836–1896) – known as "The Ogress of Reading" ... Boyfriend later died, as did a man who replied to her personal ad. Henri Désiré Landru ...

  6. “Should Give You Nightmares”: 53 Historical Facts Humanity Is ...

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    Image credits: hackyslashy Seduction, love, cheating, betrayal, lust, and longing are as much a part of history as war and famine, conquests and rebellions, progress and repressions.

  7. This Man Knows the Truth About Amelia Earhart. Why ... - AOL

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    Like many people, he had believed that on a long flight around the world, Amelia Earhart and her copilot, Fred Noonan, crashed and died. “That was the intuitive answer,” he says.

  8. Infanticide in 19th-century New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    Minnie Dean and others may have been viewed as equivalents to John and Sarah Makin and Frances Lydia Alice Knorr in adjacent New South Wales in Australia, or Amelia Dyer in the United Kingdom, who were her historical contemporaries. Such trials also built up a volume of relevant case law within imperial jurisdictions.

  9. How explorers found Amelia Earhart's watery grave. Or did they?

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    The Deep Sea Vision team was out to solve the greatest aviation mystery of all: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart on July 2, 1937, during her epic flight around the world.