7. AMELIA DYER
A.K.A. – THE READING BABY FARMER
Although Amelia Dyer was tried and hanged for only one murder, claims state that many other victims died by her hand in Victorian England. Trained as a nurse, she eventually took the path of a baby farmer – someone who welcomed infants into her home and received payments for care and wet-nursing. But Amelia never took care of the children. Instead, she let them die by neglect, and pocketed all the money.
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