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Following Minnie Dean's arrest in May 1895, police undertook a search of her garden at The Larches, near Winton. They unearthed the recently buried bodies of two babies and the skeleton of an older boy (whom she later claimed had drowned).
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'Police search Minnie Dean's garden', URL: /media/photo/police-search-minnie-dean-garden, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 15-Jul-2013
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