Amelia Dyer
Serial killer
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Amelia Elizabeth Hobley, popularly dubbed the Ogress of Reading, was an English serial killer who murdered infants in her care over a thirty-year period during the Victorian era. Wikipedia
Born: 1837, Bristol, United Kingdom
Died: June 10, 1896 (age 59 years), Newgate Prison
Children: Ellen Thomas, Mary Ann "Polly" Dyer, William Samuel Dyer
Parents: Sarah Hobley and Samuel Hobley
Other names: The Ogress of Reading, The Reading Baby Farmer, Mrs. Thomas
Criminal penalty: Death
Date apprehended: 3 April 1896