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    Amelia Dyer was a notorious British serial killer active in the late 19th century. She worked as a baby farmer, taking in illegitimate children for a fee but often neglecting or murdering them. Dyer was eventually caught after the bodies of several infants were discovered, and an investigation linked her to over 20 child deaths. She was convicted of murder and hanged in 1896, making her one of the most prolific serial killers in history.

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    Amelia Dyer

    Rijad Nezirović IX-2


    Essential Information
    Background.
    Background
    • In 1861, she became permanently estranged from at least one of her brothers, and moved to Trinity Street in Bristol, there sh e married
    George Thomas.
    • They both lied about their age in their marriage certificate, George was 59 and deducted 11 years from his age, and Amelia wa s 24 and
    added 6 years to hers.
    • They did this to reduce the age gap between them.
    • After marrying George Thomas, Amelia
    trained as a nurse.
    • From a contact known as Ellen Dane, she
    learned of an easier way to make a living,
    using her own home to provide shelter for

    Nursing
    young women who had conceived
    illegitimate children and then farming off
    the children for adoption or letting them die
    of malnutrition or neglect.
    • This practice came to be known as baby
    farming, in which people acted as foster or
    adoption agents, in return for regular
    payments from the infant's mother.
    Murders

    • Dyer was eager to make money from baby farming,


    and always assured her clients she was respectable
    and married and that she would provide a safe and
    loving home for a child.
    • In 1872, Amelia married William Dyer and they had 2
    children together.
    • For some time, Dyer avoided the interests of the
    police, and during her career she started murdering
    the children and taking most or all of the fee.

    • She was eventually caught in 1879 after after a


    doctor was suspicious about the number of child
    deaths he had been called to certify in Amelia's care.
    • Instead of being charged for manslaughter, she got
    sentenced to six months of hard labour for neglect.
    • In January 1896, a 25-year-old barmaid, Evelina Marmon, gave birth to
    an illegitimate daughter, Doris, in a boarding house in Cheltenham.
    • Marmon put her daughter up for adoption, putting it up for adoption
    in the 'Bristol Times' newspaper
    • Conveniently next to her own advertisement was another one, where
    supposedly a married couple who wanted to take in the child, Marmon
    responded to a "Mrs. Harding" and then got a reply from Dyer.
    • Dyer then took in the child, and wrote back to Marmon saying all was

    The murder of •
    well, Marmon wrote back, but no reply ever came.
    Dyer did not travel to Reading as she told Marmon, but to London,
    where her 23-year-old daughter was staying, then she murdered the

    Doris Marmon child by tying tape around her neck in a knot, causing the infant to
    choke.
    • Both Dyer and her daughter allegedly helped to wrap the body in a
    napkin, along the way, another child came to London, Harry Simons,
    who was strangled.
    • Both bodies were stuffed into a carpet bag with bricks for added
    weight, and then in Reading, at Caversham Lock, she forced the bodies
    into the river Thames through railings
    • In March of 1896, a bargeman at Reading retrieved a package
    from the Thames, and in it was the body of a baby girl, which
    was later identified to be Helena Fry, this was one of Dyer's
    murders.
    • From the small detective force at Reading Borough
    Police, Detective Constable Anderson found a label from
    Temple Meads station, in Bristol, and using microscopes they
    deciphered the paper and it said "Mrs. Thomas" and an

    Discovery of address
    • Although the police couldn't link "Mrs. Thomas" to be Dyer,

    corpses eventually they found out that at least 20 children have been
    put under the care of "Mrs. Thomas", which after the police
    raided her home, it was the revealed that Amelia Dyer was
    the suspect.
    • She may have killed over 400 children over the period
    of decades, one of the most prolific murderers ever.
    Trial and arrest
    • Dyer was arrested and confirmed that her
    daughter or her husband didn't have anything
    to do with the murders.
    • On the 22nd of May of 1896, she pleaded
    guilty at The Central Criminal Court of England
    and Wales, known as the Old Bailey, evidence
    from witnesses was given to ensure her
    conviction.
    • It only took the jury four and a half minute
    to find her guilty, she was sentenced to death.
    • She was hanged by James Billington at
    Newgate Prison on Wednesday, 10th of June
    1896.
    THE END!

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