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Podcast: History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind
Episode: Phantasmal Crime Ep. 48 - The Serial Killer Amelia Dyer
Description: The Victorian Era in Britain was a tough time for women, particularly if they were single mothers. Desperate women would find themselves pregnant after giving themselves to a man hoping he would take care of them. Or many times they would fall into sex work and end up pregnant. The fix of an opium laden tincture to cause a miscarriage was incredibly dangerous, so there were not many options and most didn't have the means to care for a child. But they also didn't have time to care for their child because they needed to work. Thus, they would...