7. Amelia Dyer
Amelia Dyer is another name on this list whose sheer alleged murder toll is almost too much for the mind to fathom. Despite being eventually hanged for a single murder, some sources put her total death count to be over 400! Apparently, all of those victims were babies. Dyer was initially trained as a nurse, but eventually opened up her home to receive mothers of illegitimately conceived children.
For a substantial initial fee, Dyer would take the children from their unwilling mothers and assure them that she would provide care for the babies before finding them a safe, loving home. What she did, of course, was the exact opposite. In her tamest violations, Dyer would let the children wither slowly from neglect and malnourishment. In other, incomprehensibly brutal cases,
Dyer would wrap the infant’s neck twice-over with tape and watch them pass horrifically away. Harold Shipman, with his 250 victims, is commonly known as Britain’s worst serial killer, but amateur historians would do well to keep Amelia Dyer’s cursed name in mind during the telling of their unfortunate tales.
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