The Strange _ Terrifying Case of Minnie Dean

Podcast: Tale Foundry Mysteries · Tale Foundry Mysteries

Opublikowano: 2026-11-14

She was the only woman ever hanged in New Zealand — and even now, no one agrees on what she really was. The strange and terrifying case of Minnie Dean, the Winton "baby farmer," shocked a nation in 1895. Dean took in unwanted infants for a fee, and when a railway guard noticed her boarding a train with a baby and a hatbox but disembarking with only a suspiciously heavy box, police searched her garden and found the bodies of two babies and the skeleton of a third [citation:1][citation:9]. She was convicted of murdering one-year-old Dorothy Carter and hanged in Invercargill, pr...