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Perpetrator

Amelia Dyer

Born
27 November 1837
Died
10 June 1896, aged about 59
Record
Wikidata Q660912 · Wikipedia

Perpetrator in The Reading Baby Farmer

Former nurse and baby farmer who used many aliases; convicted of murdering Doris Marmon and hanged at Newgate.

1896 · Reading, Berkshire, and Willesden, London · Executed

For £10 'Mrs Harding' promised a mother's love to babies born outside marriage. In 1896 the Thames at Reading gave up what she had done with them. Read the case.

Dated events

  1. Dyer is sentenced to six months' hard labour after a doctor reports the deaths of children in her care.

  2. Posing as Mrs Harding, Dyer collects Doris Marmon in Cheltenham and takes her to Mayo Road, Willesden.

  3. Police arrest Dyer at 45 Kensington Road, Reading, after using a decoy client.

  4. Dyer collects Harry Simmons at Paddington station.

  5. Dyer travels back to Reading with a weighted carpet bag.

  6. Dyer is tried at the Old Bailey for the murder of Doris Marmon, convicted and sentenced to death.

  7. Amelia Dyer is hanged at Newgate Prison.