"Ogress of Reading" - Amelia Dyer

Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

Spotify Studios

True Crime, Education, History

4.7 • 30.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Cunning, smart, ruthless, Amelia Dyer began a baby-farming business in 19th century England. Poverty-stricken mothers placed their children in her care trusting that she would find them loving homes. Instead, she pocketed the money, starved and strangled the babies before throwing them in the Thames river. Parcasters - If you haven’t already checked out our recent episodes on Female Criminals covering Diane Downs, check them out! Downs staged a murder involving her own children, listen now at parcast.com/criminals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes,
0:03.0	listener discretion is advised.
0:05.6	This episode includes discussions of murder and assault
0:08.8	that some people may find offensive.
0:11.0	We advise extreme caution for children under 13.
0:15.0	Infants, newborns, babies.
0:20.0	Whatever word we choose to use, they are our most precious creations on Earth.
0:26.0	As we cradle our young child, we watch in awe as they attempt to understand the world around them.
0:32.0	We become happy when we hear a baby's laughter,
0:35.0	scared when a baby cries, exhilarated
0:38.0	as we watch them sleep peacefully in their crib.
0:41.0	All we want is for our children to be healthy and happy. in their fathers cautiously driving with their infant from the hospital,
0:53.6	mothers nervous to breastfeed for the first time.
0:56.8	It becomes instinctual to want a shield and shelter
0:59.9	these defenseless beings.
1:01.8	Which made it all the more heartbreaking
1:03.8	when in March 1886, the body of a baby
1:07.2	was discovered in the River Thames.
1:09.6	A shock rippled through London
1:11.2	when the killer was unmasked.
1:13.2	Her name was Amelia Dyer, and she was paid to find adoptive parents for unwanted children,
1:19.4	only she didn't actually care for the infants she took in, quite the opposite.
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