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Amelia Dyer was perhaps the most prolific killer in British history. She earned a living through murder. And her victims were babies.

In 1849, a man suddenly disappeared in Bermondsey. The discovery that he had been brutally murdered enraptured the press and the public. Even Charles Dickens was totally engrossed in the story of the sinister Marie Manning.

It was a crime which shocked Britain. In 1878, a widow was killed in her own home, the killer was her own servant. For the young servant did not only kill and dismember her employer – she stole her clothes, her property and her identity.

It was WWII and London was rocked by the Blitz from the planes flying above. But down on the streets below another terrible danger lurked in the shadows. A serial killer was on the loose.

As Europe recovered from the damage of WWII, soldiers made their way home from the front line. But one man, brought back all the savagery and brutality of the fighting.

Henri Landru targeted lonely vulnerable women left behind by the war. He seduced them with promises of marriage and lured them to houses outside Paris where they vanished