In Victorian England, beneath the smog-choked skies and soot-stained bricks, a quiet horror was unfolding. Amelia Dyer a former nurse turned baby farmer, promised desperate mothers care and comfort for their infants… but what she delivered was death. With white tape as her calling card and the Thames as her accomplice, Dyer became one of history’s most prolific serial killers, hiding in plain sight as London’s population boomed and its poorest slipped through the cracks.
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Show Sources & Further Reading
Bastardy and Baby Farming in Victorian England
Baby Farming, A Victorian Horror Story
Victorian Baby Farming
Baby farming - Wikipedia
Nineteenth-Century Baby-Farming and the Demonisation of Working-Class Mothers
Social Life in Victorian England
The Victorian women forced to give up their babies
Single, Unwed, and Pregnant in Victorian London
Amelia Dyer - Wikipedia
Amelia Dyer Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life
Amelia Dyer | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
The Grisly Story Of How 'Baby Farmer' Amelia Dyer May Have Slaughtered As Many As 400 Children
Amelia Dyer: The Victorian nurse who strangled babies - BBC News
Amelia Dyer: The Victorian Baby Farmer - Owlcation
Amelia Dyer: Baby Killers | Gresham College
Amelia Dyer "The Reading Baby Farmer" - Crime Museum
The Baby Farmer | Thames Valley Police
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