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- Dyer's downfall came when the bagged corpse of an infant was discovered in the River Thames, with evidence leading back to her. She was arrested on 4 April 1896. In one of the most sensational trials of the Victorian period, she was found guilty of the murder of infant Doris Marmon and hanged on 10 June 1896.
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Mary Dyer (born Marie Barrett; c. 1611 – 1 June 1660) was an English and colonial American Puritan-turned-Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony.
Jul 26, 2015 · A sketch of Mary Ann Dyer at her mother's trial. In 1896 Amelia Dyer was convicted of murder, following the discovery of infant corpses wrapped in brown paper parcels in the river Thames at...
On June 1, 1660, Mary Dyer once again was marched the one mile from her cell to a place close to Frog Pond in Boston Commons. As she walked, some in the crowd urged her to go back to Rhode Island and save her life.
Mary Dyer, Marmaduke Stevenson, and Nicholas Davis are sentenced to “punishment upon pain of death” under the recently enacted law. Stevenson heads for Salem, where he is again arrested (with William Robinson) and returned to Boston.
Jun 2, 2017 · Amelia Dyer is believed to have murdered hundreds of babies during the 19th Century. Her crimes led to one of the most sensational trials of the period and shone a spotlight on the...
On 22 May 1896, Dyer appeared at the Old Bailey and pleaded guilty to one murder, that of Doris Marmon. Her family and associates testified at her trial that they had been growing suspicious and uneasy about her activities, and it emerged that Dyer had narrowly escaped discovery on several occasions. [6]
In the summer of 1896, 57-year-old Amelia Dyer was executed for the murder of a baby girl. It was a sample charge. The bodies of six more babies had been found, and further evidence pointed to at least 12 murders.
