The Evilness of Victorian Serial Killer Amelia Dyer | Well, I Never | True Crime 

My great great grandmother was pushed down the stairs by another woman and subsequently died. This happened on the Isle of Man in the late 1800s. The murderer showed up in court with a baby. The judge felt sorry for her and let her go. My great grandmother became mentally unstable as a result and put my grandmother in an orphanage at age 5. My grandmother was sent to Canada by the orphanage. She worked as a housekeeper and then char woman, living a life of poverty until age 73 when she died. My mother was forced to leave school at age 11 and worked at menial jobs until she married my Dad, who pulled her out of poverty. The death of my great great grandmother affected three generations of women who followed, all because of a contemptible woman from the late 1800s who got away with murder.

Please do more Edwardian, Victorian and old English horror stories and true crime. This is so unique and I’m so happy I found your channel

This man and his organization of documentarians must be hailed. Great oration, great voice, great presentation, great appearance, great immagry, and just the right length of video. Much appreciated! Honestly riveting material, and a wonderful documentation of highly interesting history.. You all are great at what you do.

I love a ghost story at Christmas but sadly the living can be more frightening

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All I could think of were those poor little babies, thrown away like garbage. Evil cruel people like that, should rot in prison.

In Canada, there was movie based on a true story about "Butter Box Babies". In Nova Scotia, there was a maternity home where there are many burials of babies in Butter Boxes which were wooden boxes made to carry dairy products - hence, the name "ButterBox" . They were the ideal size for a baby coffin. There were survivors of this time who eventually told the story. I can't help but think what a terrible life the mother and baby experienced. Thank you for your excellent videos.

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At the time the infant mortality rate in workhouses was often 80% to 100%, and even the “good” workhouses had horrific rates. Amelia Dyer was intentionally brutal in a world that already tolerated phenomenal incidental brutality.

For those interested in further reading, there is the book “Amelia Dyer Angel Maker: The Woman Who Murdered Babies for Money” by Alison Rattle and Allison Vale published in 2013. I often first find out about a true crime story either on RU-vid channels like this one, podcasts, tv, or online articles. Then if I’m interested in finding out more I look for any books or documentaries done about the case and go in search for them. I don’t remember how I found out about Amelia Dyer, it maybe was when I went searching for the definition of baby farming out of curiosity and her name was the first that came up. This channel is excellent and I’m a new subscriber. I’m always interested in historical and true crime stories like this one. Keep up the good work.

It's sad that it takes a tragedy to change laws. Thanks for an interesting and terrifying historical story. Things like this should never be forgotten

Excellent content ! and the way you narrate the story add a great deal of motivation to stimulate our brain to keep us glued to the chair .

I just stumbled on this channel and I'm so glad I did. Your videos are very informative and well presented. As a suggestion, I think the story of Burke and Hare would be an excellent fit here.

This was a very chilling video, with a really concerning ending as well. I really love how you present this, and I just stumbled upon your videos. Definitely hoping to see you grow, you'd be a very strong voice in the creepy-content world.

I like those stories from the past. there are so many stories who will be forgotten if they arent told. And this from everywhere around the world. My father collected them while he was on the road trough europe, as an international truckdriver. Unfortunatly most of his writings where lost in a rainstorm that flooded his office, a couple of days after he passed on. Little stories of little people, but sometimes with great life lessons. Stories of unknown heros,....

i REALLY enjoy when you are shown out and about in the locations that connect to the stories. For me, there is so much story telling power in that, even when you are recorded there only for a sentence or two. This is what I enjoy most about this channel thus far.

Well, I never. Thanks, Paul truly a bone-chilling story that is not heard of before. Great channel.

First ever episode watched. Very interesting history. I am glad that she was caught and met her fate for killing the innocence of children. Great narrator please keep him for further topics. Good luck with further subjects, I will look forward to more.

I love how you go on site to the places where things actually happened. Very cool!

I have lived in Caversham my whole life and heard about this many times, but this filled in some of the gaps in the story. Incidentally the terrace house she lived in is still there and is still a private residence. Not sure if the owner knows because the only people in Caversham who know about Mrs Dyer are those whose family has lived here for generations.

I’ve been binge watching your videos! Excellent content!

Today I found and subscribed immediately to your canel. Now I have to binge watch all of your Videos. Great compliment and warm greetings from Germany🍀🍀🍀

I just found your channel. I really like that you choose stories from around the world and across centuries. Also, the extra tidbits you add are fantastic! I've seen many Amelia Dyer videos before, but had never heard of her daughter leaving a baby at a train station! That's impressive research! Keep up the good work!

“He, surprisingly, subtracting 11.....” Lol the subtle way he says that.

Sir you do a good job narrating these stories. I listened to a couple and was hooked. Subscribed the same day! God bless you and your family and thanks for the interesting entertainment.

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I'm partially glad I found your channel, but was also shocked you had only 40k subscribers at the time. Narration is more than excellent, videos are nicely put together. I'm truly hoping and wishing this channel explodes in popularity, you definitely deserve it!

This was brilliant! I'm so glad I found your channel as well! If you take @MissTudorRose's advice and do Burke & Hare, (which you should, it will be *AWESOME,*) you've got to include the rhyme. Down the close and up the stair, But and ben wi' Burke and Hare Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox's the man who buys the beef. There's also a children's version that takes the rhyme even further. Hang Burke, banish Hare, Burn Knox in Surgeon's Square

Well I Never is the perfect name for your posts. Thank you.

Love the concept of this RU-vid channel and already love the host. Can’t wait for more 👏🏻

Fascinating! I'd never heard of her before. I love your style of story-telling. Thanks!

Wonderful to see how far this beautiful channel has come in little more than a year! 160K subs now.. Deservedly so! 👏👏 I give you a standing ovation every time, Paul

Good video!! Very interesting and well done. Thank you.

I really love your videos. You have a great manner at presenting, and I hope your channel grows and grows. What a hard time to be alive and poor…all so very sad and a breeding ground for heartlessness. Their hard lives are written on their faces in photos. Their eyes are heartbreaking. I’d love you to cover people like Elizabeth Siddal and the Pre Raphaelite artists…there’s many more but off the top of my head, I’d love that. Thank you and hi from Australia ❤️🇦🇺

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I just found your channel today and have enjoyed quite a few videos so far. Thanks and keep up the good work!

Anyone else creeped out by the fact that years AFTER her mother began to decline and show mental problems requiring care, her mother had another daughter??

Great work! 🎉 first video i discovered was the Coombes family, so insane how it ended! Such lovely narration and videography, glad to have found you!!

This was a really interesting video love it

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I really like your channel I hope you guys keep making these stories. One thing I really enjoy is that the host travels two different parts to show where crimes are actually committed.

I also found your channel by accident but it was fascinating and I loved it, thank you and please keep going.

Excellent narration!! Please keep it up.

I recently discovered your channel and I can't get enough of your videos. Well done, entertaining and educational. Thank you!

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Excellent excellent excellent video!!! I also enjoyed your background music. It went perfectly with the story.

I am so glad that I found your channel I watch your videos again and again. I love how you narrate..

Great video. This presenter is awesome. He's natural and has a great voice. I wanna watch more videos he presents.

You've earned a very rare subscribe from me. I'm going back to the oldest videos you have posted and beginning to watch them all, as I thoroughly enjoy the straight to business, no bs presentation of your videos. Interesting subject matter, quick and simple intro and straight to the stories. Perfection. Well done and I will enjoy ingesting all of these fascinating stories of old.

Thank you for a very interesting video; horrible to think people like Dyer could kill children for money, just mindboggling.

I’m enjoying the variety that you have currently

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I just stumbled upon your channel and binge watching it. Exellent narration.

A very evil creature indeed. However, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Just subscribed. Thank you for sharing.

You are truly one of my favorite narrators. So happy to have found your channel. Always very interesting content

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This man’s voice is the only thing helping me fall asleep this season.

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Love this channel. Great content and delivery. Love historical true crime.

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Well rounded story with a great intro and interesting info about the law changes at the end. Love the presentation and the outside filming, I'm hooked :-)

You look an interesting character, and it was an interesting yet sad tale. I would like to make one slight criticism. For those with less than good hearing, the playing of music makes hearing the dialog very difficult. Perhaps a lower volume to the music or subtitles for the likes of me next time.

I found your channel by accident, it was a happy find! I've heard this case before, but your video was more in-depth than others I've seen!! Thanks for this great video!!

I absolutely adore this channel. My wife, who's French, has asked me more than once why England has so many tales of hauntings. When I tell her of these very wicked and grisly stories of Victorian times on this channel, she begs me to stop. She can't bear them, thereby sort of answering the question.

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I feel like you’re going to fix my grandfather’s pocket watch or sell me a magic wand

horror stories with a dapper grandpa. glad i found this channel

Hi, I am enjoying these snippets. I remember how much my children enjoyed my 'potted history' stories at bedtime. Perhaps you could do some on famous battles or even the British Empire rise and fall. Looking forward to it.

Wow what a crazy story. Thank you for the video

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I just found this channel (perhaps again, as I have spent a good amount of time in 'this' side of RU-vid, of late), and am officially subscribed. Keep cracking, you lot.

Very good video, Thank you.

Keep it going.This is so well narrated and the content so interesting. Things I never knew. Thanks xxx.

I love true crime, subscribed ! Nice stash btw.

i love this content , this history and so well told too

What a great video. I stumbled across your channel yesterday and I was glad to see you had covered this case because I live in Caversham. Your filming on location is a nice touch; I spotted my flat in the footage, I walk that towpath to work everyday, and it's where Reading rock festival takes place each year. It's just mind blowing to think something so evil happened on your doorstep. Most locals don't know about the case, they've all heard of Jack the Ripper, but when you tell them that a far worse serial killer right here in Caversham hey refuse to believe it. Can I ask about the artifact pictures in the video? they're not on display in Reading Museum ( makes sense, it's a family friendly museum) but are they on display elsewhere? or is special permission required to view them? Love the format, especially the filming on location. keep up the good work!

This is truly horrific. Thank you for telling this story. It makes me reflect on human nature and how easily some people turn their hand to murder. Very thought-provoking.

There are many cases like this around the world, called Angelmakers. In Sweden we had a case with a woman drowning babies in the bath. Things like this is the bi-product of a society without abortions or contraceptives combined with a lopsided responsibility for the child and the shame and guilt placed upon unmarried mothers. Also without daycare for children, not allowing mothers to make a living. My own grandmother was sent to live with an older relative for the first five years of her life because her parents were not allowed to get married. Of course she was cared for in a sufficient way, enough that she is my 92 year old grandmother, but it’s unthinkable today in Sweden that a mother would have to send her baby away to be able to make a living and not be pariah.

Happy one of the videos (Fanny Adams) came up in my recommended feed. Now I'm going back and I'm going to binge them all haha

My Aunt used to live in Amelia Dyers old house in Piggotts Road, Reading!

Having stumbled on this Chanel, I am very glad I have done. As a subject matter that may be of interest to you, the Norwich Asylum (St Andrews) is now derelict but it’s history is hard to find. If you have the means and opportunity I would love to see more of its history as the site is fantastic, from the partial main building and the mortuary which still stands today. Many thanks.

Victorian era punishment were horrific I could know about a different England through your video

Thank you for your superb work. What a nightmare for those poor families and their darling babies.

Yet she looked so kind. Never judge a person by their appearance.

Brilliant channel. Great character and outstanding narration. Subscribed!

Best story teller !

YAY NEW CHANNEL i need my history MORBID AF

What a chiller! Well delivered.

Love the channel!

This is possibly the darkest story of the dark Victorian times. Incredible. Excellent telling

Oh how very sad, Rest In Peace to her victims. Thank you for sharing some of this history

I'm really enjoying these vids !

Engaging storyteller.Transported back in time. Love it .

You Sir are a GREAT Story Teller! .... very entertaining. ... subscribed!

Loving the channel, so interesting. I enjoy the historical subjects that you bring to life.