Caregiver to Killer: Amelia Dyer & The Dark World of Baby Farming

Murder, Mystery & Makeup

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.9 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In the late 1800s, Amelia Dyer ran a group home for infants called a "baby farm"... But instead of helping these babies, what she did was unthinkable...

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0:00.0	Hi, friends. How are you today? My name is Bailey Sarian and today is Monday, which means it's
0:05.0	murder, mystery, and makeup Monday. Today I'm excited because we have an audio exclusive. Oh yes,
0:14.2	this is just for the podcast. This is just for you. I just want to give a disclaimer that today's
0:19.9	episode does involve children and infants
0:23.4	and death and murder. Hi. I'm sorry. So listener discretion is advised. Today we're going to be
0:32.9	talking about Amelia Dyer. Have you heard about her? Because I didn't. So let me tell you about her.
0:39.3	Okay, so she lived in the late 1800s,
0:41.3	and if the estimates are accurate,
0:43.3	she killed as many as 400 infants and children
0:47.3	over the course of her life.
0:49.3	Yes, you heard that number correctly.
0:52.3	400.
0:53.3	Again, these are estimates, but she was convicted of killing six.
0:57.8	So it's between six to 400, the number's in there somewhere.
1:02.6	And honestly, I think we can all agree that killing six alone is horrific in itself, right?
1:08.7	Okay, thank you.
1:09.6	I'm glad we agree.
1:10.4	A lot of witnesses and neighbors at the time think that police only scratched the surface of what this woman did.
1:18.7	So take a journey back with me to Victorian era, England.
1:23.2	A time when young women were vilified and the government did nothing to help them.
1:28.8	Amelia Dyer, she was born in 1838 in the southwest of England in an area called Pai Marsh.
1:35.2	I believe it's Pai Marsh, okay?
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