Amelia Dyer: Britain's creepy lady serial killer, who killed more than 400 children

On the day of 3 April 1896, a fisherman was fishing in the Thames River in London with his boat as usual. Meanwhile, a packet got trapped in his trap. He was stunned when he opened the packet. The packet contained the body of a small girl. The boatman informed the police about the discovery of the dead body. After which the death of more than 400 children was revealed due to this one dead body. Let us know what is this whole story…

Today we will talk about a dreadful incident that happened in Britain in 1896. This incident is related to baby farming. In fact, in those days some people in Britain used to pay money and leave their children to baby farmers to take care of them. Some of these baby farmers were such that they took care of the children only for a short period of time. Then after a fixed time they were handed over to their relatives. But there were some baby farmers who used to take money and keep the children with them forever. Then they were sold to some needy who did not have children of their own. In a way, it was a children's business.

But there was also a baby farmer who took money from people to take care of the children. But instead of taking care of the children, he killed them. According to the report of Daily Mail, this woman brutally killed more than 400 children in the greed of money. Who was this woman and how her antics were revealed, let's know in detail...

On 4 April 1896, a fisherman found the body of a little girl wrapped in a packet while fishing in the River Thames. Whose age was less than a year. A white tape was wrapped around his neck. It appeared that the girl had been strangled to death with this tape. Along with this, a paper was also with the dead body, in which the address of a house was written. The fisherman immediately informed the police about this. The police took the dead body into custody. Then reached the address which was written in that paper.

This was the address of a woman named Amelia Dyer. As soon as the police entered Amelia's house, they smelled human flesh there. After that, when the police searched the house, they found many vaccination papers and a lot of clothes of small children. Along with this, he found some newspapers in which it was found that this woman had printed advertisements of baby farming under many names including Mrs. Harbing and Mrs. Smith. In that house, the police also found paper and tape similar to those found near the dead body of that girl.

Dead bodies of several children found in the Thames River

As soon as the evidence was received, the police started the dragging operation. During that dragging operation, the police found more bodies of children from the river. When the count of corpses reached 50, the police asked Amelia, who are these children and how many children have you killed in this way. Amelia told that the name of the child is also written in the tape that is attached near the neck of every child. But he did not tell how many children he had killed. She told that she used to tape the child's mouth. Then she used to strangle them to death by putting tape around their neck.

Amelia, 24, married Thomas, 59.

Now the question before the police was why Amelia killed these children? Then in strict interrogation, Amelia started telling her story to the police. He told that he was born in 1837. She was the youngest of 5 siblings. His mother's mental condition was not good due to which his childhood was not good. She used to take care of him. Then in 1848 his mother died. After this she started living with her aunt in Bristol. In 1861, when she turned 24, she married a man named George Thomas. George was 59 years old at that time. Both got their respective ages written falsely in the marriage certificate. George listed his age as 48. Whereas, Amelia listed her age as 30.

left nursing job for daughter

After marriage, Amelia took nursing training. Soon he also got a job. Amelia then gave birth to a daughter. He did not have time to take care of a daughter named Ellen Thomas. So she quit her nursing job. Everything was going fine. But in 1869 husband George Thomas died. After this, Amelia started facing even more shortage of money. For money, he again started baby farming. In this, she used to take care of the children for some time by taking money. Then she used to return the children after a fixed period of time.

children died of starvation

Then in 1872 she married William Dyer, a brewery worker from Bristol. He also had two children. Whose names were named Mary Ann and William Samuel. Shortly afterwards she also divorced William Dyer. Now he had to raise his three children only with the money he got from baby farming. In such a situation, greed came in her mind and she started playing with the health of the children left for care. She doesn't give them food. Due to which the children would have died due to starvation. It was running fine for some time. But after the death of a child, when the parents got the investigation done, it was found that the death of the child was due to Amelia's negligence. When the matter reached the police, it was revealed in the investigation that in the same way many children were killed due to Amelia's negligence.

Amelia released after 6 months in jail

Then in 1879 the police arrested Amelia. But due to lack of any concrete evidence against him, he was released from jail after 6 months. Now Amelia had understood that if she keeps the children for care for some time only, then she cannot kill the children. That's why now he started giving advertisements in newspapers with different names. In which he wrote about buying children forever instead of temporary care.

used to kill children and throw them in the river

Due to the difference of name, people would have handed over the children by giving money to Amelia. They would have thought that Amelia would either take care of their children forever. Or will hand them over to someone in need. So that the future of the child becomes. But they didn't know what Amelia was going to do with their children. Now Amelia would kill the children just hours after adopting them. Then she used to throw their dead bodies in the river. At the same time, she used to bury some children as well.

Hanged on 10 June 1896

The police were also stunned to hear Amelia's statement. He told that he did not remember how many children he had killed. According to the Daily Mail, police estimated that Amelia killed more than 400 children. The police also presented Amelia in the court. Due to the evidence, the court sentenced Amelia to death. After which he was hanged on 10 June 1896. Before death he was asked if you have anything to say? So Amelia's last words were 'I have nothing to say.'