The Woman Who Murdered Babies for Money

Amelia Dyer: Angel Maker

The Woman Who Murdered Babies for Money was written by and Allison Vale. The 256 page book was published by Andre Deutsch Limited in 2011 (originally in 2007) with an ISBN 10 of 0233003169. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. The Woman Who Murdered Babies for Money mentions 1 serial killers including Amelia Dyer. The author Allison Vale has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

TRUE CRIME. See this lady? You would not want to lock horns with her. You certainly wouldn't give her your baby. But in the late nineteenth century, that's exactly what a lot of women did. Why? Because in an era when having a child out of wedlock was so severely frowned upon, Amelia Dyer took advantage of this. She advertised in the press offering to 'adopt' unwanted babies, charged the poor grief-stricken mums GBP 10 for the privilege, took the wee babes off their hands - and then drowned them in the River Thames. As well as relating the story, the authors explore the circumstances that enabled such crimes to be committed. Unregulated 'adoption' was a widely acknowledged problem. The Child Protection Act did not yet exist.