Angel of death

Britain has seen all sorts of killers, but this serial killer must be on of, if not, the worse. Amelia Dyer, later named the ‘’Angel Maker’’, made desperate mothers believe that she was owner of a foster house for their children. She would take the mothers’ money promising them to find a good home for their child, but instead she would strangle the babies and dump their bodies in the River Thames. In the late 1860s, for as long as 30 years, she was able to commit the crimes of around 400 babies without being suspected. People would even ask her to suffocate their child at birth so that doctors would not make the difference between that and still-birth, making the crimes ‘unchallenged’. After she was discovered for her true colours, the Victorian society was so shocked that songs were written about her and adoption and child protection laws were straitened. When the police finally became suspicious and met with her, she told them that they would recognize the bodies that were ‘’hers’’ in the river by the tape around their neck. The disturbing woman was hanged at the age of 58, in 1896, at Newgate Gaol. Her case has been reopen since her death to be categorised as the worse Britain had ever lived, and she will forever be part of the world horrors.  

For more, read the article bellow:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283302/Britains-worst-serial-killer-The-Victorian-angel-death-murdered-400-babies.html

Written by Aimée Pocock