S2 Ep28: The Harrowing Murders of Amelia Dyer

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

To countless women, Amelia Dyer offered salvation: She was a supposedly married but barren woman who offered to adopt babies whose parents (usually unwed mothers) couldn't afford to raise them properly. Dyer promised to rear the "precious" babies as her own and even offered the biological mothers the chance to visit and stay part of the children's lives -- for a small fee, of course. Eventually, one body surfaced that could be tied to Dyer, and then another. Soon, police realized that Dyer had been running a so-called baby farm, killing dozens of helpless children over a span of decades before her undoing.

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0:00.0	How are the days are coming?
0:02.0	How are the days are coming?
0:04.0	How are the days are coming?
0:06.0	Yes, it's official.
0:08.0	Holidays are coming.
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0:12.0	brings the magic this Christmas.
0:15.0	It's always a real thing.
0:18.0	How are the days are coming?
0:20.0	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they earn the label crime of the century.
0:34.0	But the stories that made headlines in decades past are necessarily remembered today.
0:42.0	I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author.
0:46.0	In each episode of this show, I'll examine a case that's maybe less known today,
0:52.0	but was huge when it happened.
0:54.0	This is crimes of the centuries.
1:10.0	For two months, Avelina Edith Marmon had been living a young woman's nightmare.
1:15.0	She had given birth to a beautiful baby girl, a girl she loved and wanted to see thrive,
1:20.0	but Avelina knew that simply couldn't happen if the girl stayed with her.
1:25.0	Avelina made little money as a 25-year-old bar maid.
1:28.0	She was not married.
1:30.0	But her lover was to a different woman, and he was keen to keep it that way.
1:35.0	Abortion was illegal and, if procured by illicit means, incredibly dangerous.
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