Amelia Dyer: The Ogress of Reading [Part One]

[@CuriousWorldProductions]

There are a couple of points I'd like to make regarding this video. 1. I realise this is a well known story, which isn't the kind of thing I usually cover at length. This actually started out as a 7 minute segment for my next Thames Tales video, but I wanted to include as much information as I could, including information that hasn't been included in other videos, so it ended up as a 64 minute project. 2. To whom it may concern: Reading (pronounced Redding) is a town in England. This is not a video about a book-lovng killer.

[@CloudFowest]

I've never heard of this, so of all people I'm glad to hear it from you first

[@TheSaneHatter]

Thank you for clarifying the spelling, but I *had* eventually guessed. My eyes initially went wide with the same misperception, but after a minute or so, my Anglophile tendencies and English knowledge reasserted themselves and got me to "read" the name correctly. (Memories of the "Reading Railroad" from Monopoly may have helped straighten me out on this point.)

[@CuriousWorldProductions]

@@TheSaneHatter I've seen so many comments regarding Reading and its pronunciation across social media, I thought I'd better explain.

[@ericanelson1973]

Reading, Pennsylvania is also pronounced "Redding".

[@TheSaneHatter]

@@CuriousWorldProductions It also occurs to me, after you mentioned Oscar Wilde's contemporaneous incarceration, that his "Ballad of Reading Gaol" may have been a reminder, as well.

[@TawnyC_]

The poor governess and her husband, looking and looking for their baby 💔

[@Azphreal]

She could have faked the breakdown, yes a doctor would have had to sign off on it but she had worked in an asylum so would have knowledge of the conditions inmates would have had.

[@SpiritofaGrandmother]

This is the most informative video I have seen concerning this case.Sadly this case wasn't unusual in that there were many people like Amelia Dyer in the US/UK/Canada that committed the same crimes as Amelia Dyer did

[@angelatheriault8855]

I had heard the basic story of this woman’s crimes but appreciate you went into more depth. I am not buying Amelia’s daughter and son-in-law were unaware of her activities either. The story the daughter told regarding her mother’s visit to their house was ludicrous. I

[@walkingdad6978]

Really look forward to CW vids. Thanks for your time and effort, greatly appreciated 👍🏻, as usual, told in your unique style. My favourite YT channel, keep up the outstanding work.

[@suzimonkey345]

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[@rolfsinkgraven]

That woman was really a monster, poor kids. Great video thnx.

[@suzimonkey345]

😔😢😔

[@suzimonkey345]

I’m English (London area) but I moved to the USA a couple of decades ago. The beautiful old photographs & postcards that you included make me feel homesick! It’s easy to forget how stunning our country is… 🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹

[@twistoffate4791]

Why did you leave your country? Just curious.

[@mileshigh1321]

This was amazingly researched and presented! The amount of photos you found that pertained to the story has taken this to another level! I look forward to Part 2! What a shocking story! All those poor Children.

[@amethyst1826]

Yes, much better than random pics that have absolutely nothing to do with the story!

[@Sestra_Prior]

Despite the grim subject matter, a vid from CW is always a treat. I had to pause this mid way through, because the story was a familiar one. After some head scratching and searching of my Kindle library, I realized that it had been used in one of the Ambrose Parry Fisher and Raven novels.

[@barrydysert2974]

Masterfully done! Your illustrations, photos etc, are absolutely outstanding! i find the depth and breadth of your research such that i must conclude that your card reads Dr. C. World, PhD PROFESSIONAL RESEARCHER !:-)

[@99fruitbat94]

A grim subject indeed . Thank you for your amazing research CW , no matter how much I think I know about these events you consistently provide more details . Well done again 👍

[@KatTheScribe]

Hello CW, always a treat to see you've uploaded even though the subject matter is grim. On to Part Two...

[@KatTheScribe]

Hello CW, always a treat to see you've uploaded even though the subject matter is grim. On to Part Two...

[@prakkari]

Can’t help but think that the channel That Chapter is inspired by this channel. This channel is two years older and in my opinion much more interesting because the cases are generally unknown as That Chapter is telling stories already beaten to death on YT. Thanks for your outstanding storytelling.

[@Moneytane1976]

Baby farming, knew of this case as we had a very similar one here in New Zealand, a woman called Minnie Deans. Same year too 1895, kept her dead babies in hat boxes and buried them in the garden, she was one of the few women hung here.

[@johayes7529]

Now being a non Brit I read the title and thought now just how bad were these stories to make her an ogress. Feel free to laugh I did!

[@angelasorensen4443]

So pleased to have some new videos from one of my favorite KZbin creators, historian, narrator, researcher! Well done!

[@CuriousWorldProductions]

Thank you, Angela.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

I've been blessed today with warm sun outside and not one but two CW uploads!

[@katiebaird2696]

It’s a cold, overcast day where I am. The sun would be most welcome

[@suzimonkey345]

🌥🌦🌥🌦🌥

[@mijiyoon5575]

Well presented for such a difficult subject

[@suzimonkey345]

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[@paulflynn6169]

Documentary art at it's very best . Visceral , respectful and atmospheric as ever . The opening caption warning proves your respect for the viewer . I hope your career thrives .

[@suzimonkey345]

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[@KATHIESHOES]

What beautiful music to accompany such a sad story! This video came up as subscribed, but I don’t recall subscribing... must have been my husband! Thanks to you both!!!

[@joethebrowser2743]

Great 👍🏻🇬🇧

[@gem9923]

Her house is 4 doors down from mine, spooky to walk past and I always wonder if the people living there know!

[@suzimonkey345]

I love buildings with history & (metaphorical) ghosts. Our home was an old Workhouse 300 years ago! My great-great-Grandmother & my great-grandmother (as a baby) had to go into a workhouse, they were absolutely brutal! 😔😢😔

[@suzimonkey345]

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[@shadetreader]

This is what happens when we punish poverty.

[@annehelenegroven]

I have seen several videos about Amelia Dyer, but this is the best one I have ever seen. Really great presentation and narration. So much more information and pictures. Well done 😃😃

[@suzimonkey345]

I’ve just discovered this channel. It’s GREAT! 🌹❤️🌹

[@suzimonkey345]

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[@suzimonkey345]

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[@captainsensiblejr.]

The only woman hanged in New Zealand was a baby farmer like Dyer. She lived near Winton in Southland at the bottom of the South Island in the 1890s. Her name was Minnie Dean. She was caught as she rode local trains and was seen getting off a train without a baby that she was seen with when she got on the train. Investigation of her garden uncovered several buried baby bodies. Like Dyer, Dean's arrest caused a sensation in Victorian New Zealand. Minnie Dean is an important part of the folklore of Southland. Her grave in Winton was (falsely) reputed to be incapable of growing grass. In 1993, a controversial book was published re-examined her life and crimes. It concluded Minnie Dean was, unlike Dyer, a woman overwhelmed by mental illness and that neglect rather than premeditated murder killed the babies in her care. The same was argued at her trial in 1893, but the blatantly hostile judge sentenced her to hang. 1893 was the same year that New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the vote.

[@EddieM1994]

No wonder the infant mortality rate was so high if people just fed babies opium whenever they cried. Victorian-era medicine was almost as terrible as their attitudes towards children.

[@suzimonkey345]

Their green wallpaper was poisonous & slowly killing them!!

[@suzimonkey345]

I remember talking to a friend of my great-aunt who was a nurse between the wars… She said that babies who were born with “something not quite right” were given “sips of water & cuddles”. The mothers never knew that their babies were born alive. 😔

[@londonbeyondtimeandplace2489]

Brilliant video. Funny coincidence, CW, I have been preparing a talk about the exact same murder case with one of the authors you mention in your sources. It will go online this month. I will put a link to your video.

[@CuriousWorldProductions]

Wow, thank you. Would that be Angela Buckley by any chance?

[@londonbeyondtimeandplace2489]

@@CuriousWorldProductions Correct.

[@lorrainechingwarara]

My night has just been made pleasant, thank you. Love your channel so much

[@joethebrowser2743]

It's just got even better there is a second part as well.

[@suzimonkey345]

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[@mjrchapin]

Babies fared badly then and still do, all too often. The laws, made by men, didn't help. I think "Ogress" is not the right word; you might have a sociopath here instead. Infant mortality was a fact of life. Remember that children were toiling in workhouses, starving on the streets etc. It's not as though she were serving them up as food and obviously, many 'farmers' were donig much the same.

[@Dufoth]

And still do?

[@antonkovalenko364]

Welcome back, брат. We missed you.

[@suzimonkey345]

🥰

[@ros1424]

Well worth waiting for. Very well covered and atmospheric. Takes us back to the time and social circumstsnces. Very tough.

[@suzimonkey345]

😔😢😔

[@Sexyblkmetalchick]

What an evil woman! How could she kill all those innocent children?

[@sicooper4230]

Money honey.

[@suzimonkey345]

😔😢😔😢😔

[@twistoffate4791]

Because she herself is evil.

[@STOPjammietime]

how incredibly sad, and what a stupid policy by the government that helped cause this explosion in unwanted babies. Amelia was a monster but not the only responsible party in this situation.

[@jolenehendrickson8915]

Excellently done

[@suzimonkey345]

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[@hatuletoh]

As an American, I saw the title of this video and in my head pronounced Reading as "reeding." So I wondered if the story was about a particularly draconian librarian or something.

[@ktcooki276]

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[@CuriousWorldProductions]

Yep, this is why I pinned my comment.

[@suzimonkey345]

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[@nicolevarnam2290]

Thanks So Much! Excellent job as Always My Dear Sir. Can't wait for part 2

[@suzimonkey345]

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[@jolenehendrickson8915]

I've read about her

[@christopherlawley1842]

There is a music hall song about this wretched woman

[@Dufoth]

How could their be so many monsters at the same time doing the same thing?

[@ceeceecee6138]

Once again, you have made an amazing in depth set of videos. Thank you!

[@suzimonkey345]

❤️🌹❤️

[@rich9697]

I watch to much of this murder shit it's not good for my spirit.

[@aidanlynn]

Just read about the case, glad to see it as your next video.

[@suzimonkey345]

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[@edaturk7529]

Excellent video as usual! Thanking you for your intensive research on the subject and careful tactful narrative.. I’ve been a subscriber since the beginning and your channel is still my favourite.. Keep up the hard work mate.. Always looking forward to seeing your next video.. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🥰👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@Agapy8888]

Looking forward to both your narrations.

[@suzimonkey345]

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[@-Reagan]

It angers me that society created this killer and yet society walked away free to attempt the same things for generations up to today, when we still have struggles with poverty, moralistic condemnation of women who are born to circumstances and people insisting on childbirth with no access to stemming the flow.

[@j.cr.1207]

I (respectfully) disagree that society created this killer. Amelia was an evil person who CHOSE to murder children for money. And even after being caught and sentenced DECIDED to keep killing the babies she fostered, strangling them and hiding their bodies. Nah sorry but we can't blame society for her crimes.

[@pattityson2958]

promosm

[@Licmebalzutube]

I missed something....i thought she was making money selling the kids so why was she killing so many?

[@CuriousWorldProductions]

She was taking money from the mothers, killing the children, then taking on more.

[@Licmebalzutube]

@@CuriousWorldProductions yeah i relized once i watched part two i just left this comment up. She was pure evil you did a great job with these videos. It can't be easy researching people like this trash

[@weilandiv8310]

They always have to tease us with the easy to obtain... Laudanum.

[@TA-xj5we]

🐿🤤

[@violagentsch]

How did a paperbag survives laying in water?

[@brianallsopp69]

Jill The Ripper ? Just a thought ,,,,,

[@tamlandipper29]

Aside - is the podcast on Spotify? Because I can't find it.

[@CuriousWorldProductions]

Hi Tamlan, which podcast?

[@daryld4457]

Unsubscribed. You're true colours shone through on the Black Bigalow channel, I thought you were better than that.

[@CuriousWorldProductions]

I'm not sure what you're getting at. I didn't comment on Shane's condition. I sympathize completely as far as that is concerned. But the situation between him and Hannah is clearly a money making PR show, which is dishonest. It's obvious.

[@yesiamthatgradeAcunt_]

Welcome back, good Sir🙏 We've been waiting patiently for you.