Amelia Dyer Research Paper

What You Do In the Dark Shall Come to Light

“Nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly”(Hayes) There has always been murders out there but it is the unintelligent ones who get caught. Rather it is a baby farmer who is rumored to have killed over 400 children, a man who decided to control women and bending them to his own sadistic desires, or a woman who rapes, mutilates, and kills girls with her husband. Not all the skeletons in Britain’s closet are as well known as Jack the Ripper but they are just as cruel and unusual serial killers, such as Amelia Dyer, and the couple Fred and Rosemary West . Amelia Dyer never had an easy life. Her mother was a raving lunatic and, lived with

He has been connected to various petty crimes and has a problem with child molestation. Fred was a charmer. He was married once legally, twice spiritually, and had children with many other women. First, he was married to a Scottish prostitute named Rena Costello. Rena gave Fred his first child and the couple met Anne McFall. Fred impregnated Anne and she strongly insisted that he divorce his wife and marry her. Fred was very reluctant to get a divorce with Rena, so he killed Anne and their unborn child. Rena was soon tired of the sadistic sexual acts and possible underlying abuse, so she fled, abandoning her child to suffer a sadistic father’s wrath (“Fred & Rosemary West: A British Couple With an Appetite for Murder and Rape”). Fred was accused of impregnating a 13-year-old. As punishment, he was convicted of child molestation. Once he served his time, Fred became a construction worker until he was fired for stealing and having sex with a minor. Another one of his young victims was the abduction of a 15-year-old girl named Mary (Biography.com Editors. “Fred West

“Rosemary West Biography”). She was alone at the time because her husband was doing in prison for theft. It is believed that Rosemary got so erratic she ended up killing Charmaine, Fred’s eldest daughter. In 1972 Rosemary and Fred got married and had their second child. Fred encouraged Rosemary to become a prostitute. Soon after Fred’s encouraging words Rosemary had five more children, none being Fred’s, they had to suffer the wrath of both her and Fred (“Fred & Rosemary West: A British CoupleWith an Appetite for Murder and Rape”, Biography.com Editors. “Rosemary West Biography”). Once the family started to expand, Fred and Rose decided it was time to move to a residential area with more space. Fred, being the perfect husband he was created a room for thriving sexual service business. The room was decked out with a peephole so that Fred could watch and a red light so the children would know when mommy was busy. Rosemary’s dad never approved of Fred and their union, but Fred persuaded him to visit the house again. As a peace offering, Fred offered Rosemary to her father and he took Fred up on that offer while Fred watched through the peephole (“Fred & Rosemary West: A British Couple With an Appetite for Murder and