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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.
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.
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 ...
10 June 1896: Amelia Dyer was hanged at Newgate for the murder of 6 babies. It is now believed that she may have killed over 400 infants. 7 July 1896: Charles Thomas Wooldridge was hanged at Reading Gaol for the murder of his wife. The execution inspired Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
Amelia Dyer: United Kingdom: 1879–1896: 6–400+ Baby farmer who strangled the babies in her care. Hanged. [160] 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 ...
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