Amelia Dyer: The Woman Who Only Killed New Borns (Female Murder Documentary) | Absolute Crime

Amelia Elizabeth Dyer was an English serial killer who murdered infants in her care over a thirty-year period during the Victorian period of the United Kingdom. In this Absolute crime original we see how Amelia used alias and addresses to avoid detection for many years. Originally she trained as a nurse and was widowed in 1869. Dyer turned to baby farming. The practice of adopting unwanted infants in exchange for money. She would take a baby for £5 and act like she was going to raise the child but instead kill them.
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[@thomasplouffe1363]

it wasnt just newborns, it was any baby that came into her care

[@Farrah300]

Murdering an adult is horrible enough, but murdering an infant is HORRENDOUS!!!

[@RinPhantomhive1001]

Agreed No One Has Any Right Of Snuffing Out An Infants Life Or Anyone’s Life For That Matter

[@freddyfurrah3789]

ABORTION

[@Lauren_C_O]

This is still happening today and it's devastating.

[@vilimiki6101]

...and nobody gives a ''hit!!!

[@detective2221]

@@vilimiki6101 sad

[@HoneySun16]

Baby farming??

[@Pippymint]

Evidence

[@margaretr5701]

@@Pippymint Look at history of newborn baby girls in India

[@americanwoman9342]

Absolutely frightening.. Especially cause my aunt married a Dyer of English descent in early 1900’s..

[@meekomason2256]

Same here

[@faithriddle]

Dyer was her married name. Her maiden name was hobley

[@kimberleysmith818]

There are a lot of dyers in the UK. It will date back to when surnames were based on trade so I wouldn’t worry too much.

[@tinaharnish]

Stop worrying. She wasn't a Dyer. He was her 2nd husband.

[@mickey.y6013]

She LOOKS like the inspiration for the Michael Myers mask. The last names even rhyme 💀

[@davyprendergast82]

Came here after hearing comparisons with Lucy Letby. I couldn't finish this, every word of this story is just too horrific

[@ingamelevi1929]

39:45 "By 1890, she started to make mistakes" That probably compounded with the first Sherlock Holmes book, A Study in Scarlet, releasing just 3 years prior. That book was the beginning of forensic science, and police started to use observation for the tool that it was.

[@2serveand2protect]

Interesting observation. Thank You.

[@JL-iu7fk]

No ABORTION...led to this!

[@erickaepworth6257]

No. Lack of boundaries and knowledge of Self leads to mindless sexual acts and unwanted pregnancies. Humanity has been programmed into becoming mere walking limbic systems. We have higher mind functions and the time has come for humanity to evolve or expire.

[@highwindsclarke2685]

0:33 Amelia Elizabeth Dyer was featured in the Ladykillers episode Suffer Little Children. The jury came to an immediate decision without retiring.

[@youinspiremyinnerserialkiller]

Thank you for reuploading this. I love this series and this episode

[@nikkikidd8428]

I have always wondered why she didn’t use the excuse that she was killing the babies in order to save them from suffering of starvation, abuse, neglect and the shame put upon them from a society that viewed illegitimate children as bastards and not worthy of anyone’s pity. She may have been cunning but she just wasn’t smart enough to use the state of cruel and heartless treatment towards orphaned, illegitimate or abandoned children in her favour. And she was not the only one guilty of the heartless inaction when it was commonplace for these starving and desperate children to be ignored by the countless many that walked past them daily without so much as a glance in their direction. And if we wonder how she came to be so cruel, we only have to remember that society just made it so darn easy for her and were just as responsible for her actions because she wasn’t a master criminal and plenty of people either knew what she was doing or at least had their suspicions.

[@rebeccaloggs457]

Because the why doesn’t matter if she’s a baby killer for profit. Meaning, she was deceiving women out of money in exchange for the murder of their babies.

[@matthewjabeznazario8769]

Amelia Dyer, the woman who treated babies like cattle. Ugh. How evil.

[@celineypie]

This is a prime example of how this kind of sociopath is enabled by the society around them. If there wasn’t stigma around unmarried mothers, if abortion and birth control were legal, if there were social services, Amelia would not have been able to do this.

[@annawesker675]

I suspect that a lot of babyfarmers did what Amelia did. But they were never discovered. Horrible thinking about it.

[@StephanieBrooks-gi2zi]

Yep I’m from Memphis Tennessee USA and we had the god mother of adoption and she did much the same thing steal and take in babies from young unwed mothers and those that were easily adopted she did but those who were deemed unadoptable they were left it cots exposed to the elements or suffocation by a pillow it’s sick and sad to think of a young mother trying to give her child the best life possible and trusting some one to do right by the baby to this day they still don’t know how many babies were stolen and killed or stolen and adopted

[@StephanieBrooks-gi2zi]

She had doctors who would take the babies from mothers and tell them their babies died she would walk the streets and if she seen a baby she thought she could sell or adopt she took it

[@VioletVisionTV]

How could someone be so evil to the most purest precious little lives that depend on us to be there protectors

[@plumduff3303]

I was reading about lucy letby now looking at history women often killed children..very sad.

[@moondancer4660]

I've been watching this for a while. I like the lady who is hostess.😊

[@joanna4289]

That is why now there is a 24 week abortion law in the UK now!!!

[@angiesullivan1326]

There’s special places in Hell for people like her. Hope the souls of all the innocents she killed scream in her ears for all eternity.

[@joanna4289]

Hell doesn't exist it is a delusion!!!

[@brendarigotti843]

Thanks for this series.👍 It's so interesting learning about these women & why they killed, especially in the 19 century. Life was cheap & choices were desperate & unthinkable! I can imagine that circumstances led to a cold heart & just a primal instinct to survive but killing babies...? Thats absolutely calculating & sick!!

[@kimberlysweet3521]

Sad situation but very interesting 🙂

[@Farrah300]

The scene where Amelia's mother is having one of her mental outbursts is so disturbing, and very sad😥

[@carolynfrancis1047]

This is a very disturbing video.

[@Jojo-kp5eb]

I am a nurse and Nursing is still a thankless profession today.

[@MissRenaeelee]

love Martina Cole got every book and read them / coffins dont have pockets but they do hold souls i know mine will rest well because i done no bad in my life

[@ildus48]

Ok, it is only so short time i was able to watch this video, it is just unbearable!

[@deniseshephard3347]

Im just mortified these innocent babies this is just sickening this is very dark

[@jannawalters232]

Now we have abortion, to take care of "the problem." Ghastly.

[@siw8899]

Just looking at her picture sells chills down my spine, what a sicko

[@Farrah300]

Amelia Dyer looked just as evil as she truly was.

[@ianclarke3627]

A true monster , and she looks it

[@anthonysummerfield3702]

Isn't it true that at her hanging due to the horrid nature of her crime that, mirrors were placed around the scaffolding so she could watch herself being killed. Is this fact or fiction?

[@janetpendlebury6808]

They placed a hood over their heads before they hanged them, so even if they did hang mirrors up (which they didn't) she wouldn't have seen anything.

[@anthonysummerfield3702]

@@janetpendlebury6808 I see, thanks for your reply.

[@bonnietoups2446]

Amelia died in the same manner she killed.

[@moondancer4660]

I'm sure most of the mothers knew what was going to become of their babies. They just didn't have the heart to do it themselves

[@Rat_Queen86]

But a lot of them went back to get their babies. So, I think they wanted a short term solution and they didn’t think their babies would be murdered.

[@littlejoe2595]

Planned parenthood vintage

[@paulineosullivan9654]

Absolutely heart breaking 😢

[@MegaLivingIt]

Hard to watch this. Ghastly.

[@2serveand2protect]

What am I supposed to do wth such a video? ...put a "thumb up" under a video with the life-story, of a PIECE OF HUMAN GARBAGE THAT KILLED INFANTS??? ...I mean - I do like the story-telling & compelling presentation but how do you put a "thumb up" underneath THIS??

[@WonkyDonkey3000]

Who said you had to? LOL

[@suikerkahuure5753]

I m going for a beer cause Christ! 🤯 Wtf is wrong with these people Shit!

[@coffeecrimegal5968]

I’m pretty sure you need the root of the hair for any testing.

[@antoniaburns3522]

I am going to support all women, found pregnant, in this time, something I see wanting. These poor women. Where is the sympathy? As it is still, today, sadly, where does the man/father go? He took/takes what he wants and then dissappears. Not held responsible in any way. Until men are legally responsible for both unborn and born children, these poor women will continue to exist. No man should have an opinion!

[@LowejaDogs]

So sad. And the final figure of babie would probably surpass 100 but we will never know. Poor little souls. RIP

[@msprissmiss]

I wouldnt say it waa a time childrens lives were worthless, if that were true she wouldnt be in business. She wasnt a serial killer, either, a mass killer, not a serial killer, though, by definition.

[@ABeautfulMess]

Make more please..

[@thinkthensend9228]

Or better yet, I hope we run out of material

[@megansavage7152]

diabolical

[@aldomayorga2261]

lol shes trying to tell a story by being dramatic,oh so dramatic

[@manpreetbrar838]

Pure Evil work of a demon 😈

[@breannablueford6011]

What city is she in ????

[@emmacassidy8482]

London

[@nosmallo]

Reading - not a city. Technically Amelia Dyer was in Caversham which is slightly north of Reading, but due to urban sprawl, it's pretty much part of the town nowadays. The babies' bodies were found near King's Meadow.

[@johntaylor-lo8qx]

This is too dark for me.... Can't stomach it, sry.

[@nintendair5991]

Thats your problem

[@kimberleysmith818]

The past was dark and disgusting at times.

[@user-pw2fj2rq3f]

WHY SUCH A INDESCRIBABLE EVIL STORY HAS NOT AT LEAST BEEN KEPT IN MEDIA,AUTHORS OF TRUE CRIME WHICH IS WORSE THAN JACK THE RIPPER. SERIOUSLY IM APPALLED THAT THING IS NOT IN HEAVEN. THAT'S NICE TO THINK SHE IS A LOST SOUL OR HELL WHERE I BELIEVE EXISTS .DEVIL WOMAN. NO I MEANT DEVIL THING! 30:57

[@Serioussamurai500]

This is Awful :(

[@TeekayMani]

Lucy Letby’s idol must be Amelia Dyer

[@user-we6vc7lg4u]

And beverley alit

[@MrScabtree]

And Myra Hindley

[@WonkyDonkey3000]

Or Beverely Allitt

[@liluralongion2232]

Now use yall common cents

[@wicket8748]

Telling people to use common sense but can’t spell

[@LuannOsbourne]

34:44 bash her

[@CarlosGarcia-wh5bw]

Was she Israeli?

[@joanodom2104]

Not one of the babies used in this documentary were even close to newly born. Just saying.

[@kimberleysmith818]

Have you watched films? Newborns are rarely used in films, even Hollywood. The fact your takeaway of a documentary about baby deaths is that the babies aren’t young enough is worrying.

[@jaiscott7168]

Jeremiah 6 30 kjv Reprobate silver shall men call them because the LORD hath rejected them

[@TuoviLarsson]

This is very disturbing. But we are still abort muerdering babies. Very disturbing and evil that too. All babies are valueable just because they are human beeings. Yeshua Jesus Christ Abba Yah and precious Holy Spirit loves all babies. Rip little dear onez

[@jaynecooney9549]

Don’t have sex then simple

[@joanodom2104]

Do you have any idea how many young women were raped in those days?

[@joanodom2104]

Easy to say with birth control readily available, unless you've never had sex even once that wasn't solely for procreation. Sheesh! Some people!

[@siobhanhobson]

Sex education was non-existent and many people didn’t realise that was what caused pregnancy. Sex was never talked about.

[@user-fw3hp7bb6d]

@@siobhanhobson That's not true 😂

[@Rat_Queen86]

So….you are blaming the mothers and fathers for Amelia Dyer murdering babies? Wow