Discretion is advised. This is 10-minute murder.

In 1837, Amelia Dyer was born in Bristol, UK. She was an intelligent child who loved to read and write.

But her childhood, as you're going to hear, was not an easy one. Her older sister, Sarah Ann,

died at the age of six, and when her mother gave birth to another child, the little girl was named

Sarah Ann in her memory. Unfortunately, the second Sarah Ann also passed away. After

catching typhus fever, Amelia's mother was not in a very good position to be caring for her children.

Her diagnosis caused her to suffer from violent outbursts of rage, as well as uncontrolled

symptoms of mental illness. From a young age, Amelia was forced to act as

her mother's caregiver, and then when she was a preteen, her mother passed away. Amelia was then

sent to live with one of her aunts and become the apprentice to a local corset maker. When

Amelia was 24 years old, she met a much older man, 59-year-old George Thomas.

They decided to get married and both lied about their age when filling in their details

on their marriage certificate. Amelia pretended to be six years older and George pretended to be

11 years younger. On paper, their age gap didn't look very alarming,

but in reality, George was old enough to be her grandfather. Amelia originally trained to work

as a nurse, but after George passed away in 1869, she needed better money, and she needed it

quickly. On the advice of a friend, she turned to a different

career. Baby farming. At the time, baby farming was the term used after the incredibly

unethical process of taking babies who had been orphaned or birthed by single mothers in exchange

for cash payment. The problem with baby farming was obvious. Even though some

baby farmers took regular payments from the child's birth parents, many of them chose to only

accept large upfront payments before the baby was permanently transferred into their care.

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