Baby Farmer Murders Over 400 Innocent Babies ...

A young woman’s parents found her brutally murdered in the back seat of her own car, her face so badly mutilated they could barely recognize her. But less than 24 hours later, forensic testing revealed something impossible—the dead woman wasn’t their daughter. Their daughter was ...  Show more

Four relatives gathered for a quiet family lunch—but within days, three were dead and one was fighting for his life. At the center of it all was a homemade beef Wellington, a lethal dose of death cap mushrooms, and a host who walked away untouched. What followed was a trail of hi ...  Show more

Over three decades, Amelia Dyer killed upwards of four hundred infants. She conned desperate mothers while fine-tuning the details of her operation, until a bargeman’s discovery in 1896 forced the baby-farmer to have a reckoning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho ...  Show more

When it comes to serial killers, few have been as prolific as Amelia Dyer. In 19th century England, Amelia ran a group home for infants called a baby farm. But instead of helping these children, she murdered them. Eventually, her scheme was revealed. But could the police stop Ame ...  Show more

Lucy Worsley investigates the ordinary lives and extraordinary crimes of Victorian women accompanied by a team of female detectives. This time, Lucy is on the case of a baby farmer who’s thought to have killed between 200 and 400 children, by strangling them and throwing the bodi ...  Show more

In Victorian Britain, there was no formalised state adoption. Instead, desperate mothers paid other families to take their newborns. This tragic system was known as baby farming.As we’ll find out in today’s episode, Amelia Dyer was a notorious serial killer who saw this as a mone ...  Show more