![]() ![]() As well as relating the story, the authors explore the circumstances that enabled such crimes to be committed. Pocketing the cash, she strangled her victims with white tape, then wrapped their bodies either in brown parcel paper or in a carpet bag, to be recovered only weeks - or months - later. She advertised in the press offering to "adopt" unwanted babies, charged the poor grief-stricken mums GBP 10 for the privilege, took the wee babes off their hands - and then drowned them in the River Thames. Why? Because in an era when having a child out of wedlock was so severely frowned upon, Amelia Dyer took advantage of this. But in the late nineteenth century, that's exactly what a lot of women did. You certainly wouldn't give her your baby. ![]() ![]() See this lady? You would NOT want to lock horns with her. ![]()
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