Season 1 Episode 10 - Amelia Dyer “The Reading Baby Farmer”

In this week's episode we talk about Amelia Dyer, an English serial killer who murdered infants in her care over a thirty-year period during the Victorian period of the United Kingdom. Trained as a nurse and widowed in 1869, Dyer turned to baby farming—the practice of adopting unwanted infants in exchange for money—to support herself. Her case led to stricter laws for adoption and child protection, and also helped raise the profile of the fledgling National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), which formed in 1884.

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Season 1 Episode 10 - Amelia Dyer “The Reading Baby Farmer” is an episode from Kocktails & Killers by Heather and Layna.

This episode is 00:33:16 long.

This episode was published on May 9, 2021.

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