In Victorian England, beneath the smog-choked skies and soot-stained bricks, a quiet horror was unfolding. Amelia Dyer a former nurse turned baby farmer, promised desperate mothers care and comfort for their infants… but what she delivered was death. With white tape as her calling card and the Thames as her accomplice, Dyer became one of history’s most prolific serial killers, hiding in plain sight as London’s population boomed and its poorest slipped through the cracks.

Macabrium is produced by Macabrium Creative and hosted by Megan Alda and Derek Stephen Brown, with writing and research by Chloë Kibbe, Megan Alda and Derek Stephen Brown. 

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Show Sources & Further Reading

Bastardy and Baby Farming in Victorian England

Baby Farming, A Victorian Horror Story

Victorian Baby Farming

Baby farming - Wikipedia

Nineteenth-Century Baby-Farming and the Demonisation of Working-Class Mothers

Social Life in Victorian England

The Victorian women forced to give up their babies

Single, Unwed, and Pregnant in Victorian London

Amelia Dyer - Wikipedia

Amelia Dyer Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life

Amelia Dyer | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

The Grisly Story Of How 'Baby Farmer' Amelia Dyer May Have Slaughtered As Many As 400 Children

Amelia Dyer: The Victorian nurse who strangled babies - BBC News

Amelia Dyer: The Victorian Baby Farmer - Owlcation

Amelia Dyer: Baby Killers | Gresham College

Amelia Dyer "The Reading Baby Farmer" - Crime Museum

The Baby Farmer | Thames Valley Police

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