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Amelia Dyer: Angel Maker: The Woman Who Murdered Babies for Money by Allison Vale, Alison Rattle (Hardcover, 2007)
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See this lady? You would NOT want to lock horns with her. You certainly wouldn't give her your baby. But in the late nineteenth century, that's exactly what a lot of women did. Why? Because in an era when having a child out of wedlock was so severely frowned upon, Amelia Dyer took advantage of this. 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. 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. As well as relating the story, the authors explore the circumstances that enabled such crimes to be committed. Unregulated adoption was a widely acknowledged problem. The Child Protection Act did not yet exist. In Mrs Dyer's case, though, such shameless profiteering did not, ultimately, go unpunished: the police finally located Mrs Dyer, kept her under surveillance and then mounted a sting operation, using a young woman to pose as a potential customer. Amelia Dyer was arrested when she opened her front door to find two policemen on her doorstep. Finally confessing, she said, You'll know all mine by the tape around their necks. She was hanged in 1896.Product Identifiers
PublisherWelbeck Publishing Group
ISBN-139780233002248
eBay Product ID (ePID)87726907
Product Key Features
Book TitleAmelia Dyer: Angel Maker: the Woman Who Murdered Babies for Money
AuthorAllison Vale, Alison Rattle
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicTrue Crime
Publication Year2007
Number of Pages232 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height234mm
Item Width153mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorAllison Vale, Alison Rattle
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 28 Feb, 2021
Recommended
Have read this before & it is very compelling.First heard of Amelia Dyer from Martina Cole’s Ladykillers DVD & that is also very good & have also got Mary Ann Cotton book which is also compelling.If your into this sort of thing it is highly recommended & I also have another of Amelia Dyers books which is a very good read.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 17 Oct, 2018
1816
A good read about a mass murderer of children in 19th century. Really surprising she isnt more infamous.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 07 Aug, 2019
How the worlds most prolific serial killer got away with it for so long.
I live in one of the areas Mrs Dyer operated in and so I probably found much more interesting, but it is still a very compelling read.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
