killer Minnie Dean's name alive in New Zealand.Parents would often warn naughty children that if they didn't behave, the 'baby farmer' would come and steal them.There's even a song written about the murderer, who was seen as the bogeyman of a small rural town in the Southland area, some 11,000 miles from Scotland.
Now more than 100 years after her execution, how did a woman from Greenock become one of New Zealand's most notorious child killers?Minnie, whose real name was Williamina Irene McCulloch, was born in Renfrewshire in 1844 before emigrating to the other side of the world.She claimed to be the widow of a doctor, and in 1872, aged 35, she married innkeeper Charles Dean.Times were tough and the couple were declared bankrupt several.
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