Fifty years ago Ian Brady and Mira Hindley killed for the first time. It was the start of a horrific child-killing spree. Brady and Hindley: Possession ***** ITV 2013, s/a The Lovers Who Killed Children
He idolized the Nazis; he read De Sade. ibid.
1In July 1963 15-year-old Pauline Reade became the first Moors murderers’ victim. ibid.
In a locker in Manchester Central Station the police had found pictures and a tape recording documenting the abduction and abuse of a young girl. ibid.
Keith Bennett has been missing for fifty years. ibid.
He was a predator and this was his lair. But without Myra he might never have been able to lure his victims here. On his own he was a fantasist. He had Hitler’s speeches transferred to vinyl. Myra Hindley: The Untold Story: The Ones That Got Away
According to Myra, during all the killings she was round the corner, down the road, in another room, never actually present. ibid.
Pauline Reade: Myra described Ian as being ecstatic the next day. They celebrated. ibid.
Lesley Ann Downey: recorded on tape by Ian … The tape which recorded Lesley Ann being sexually abused would seal Myra’s fate. ibid.
Finally, at first light, David risked going out to summon help. ibid.
A young couple – Ian Brady and Myra Hindley: it was the first known case in British criminal history where a woman has been involved in the serial sex killing of children. But what drove this couple to such depths of depravity? Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook: Moors Murders, Sky 2013
From planning bank robberies Brady went on to talk about committing the perfect murder. ibid.
Myra Hindley and Ian Brady murdered five Manchester children. Myra: Murder, Lies and Manipulation, Channel 5 2013
Five decades of lies and manipulation making Myra Hindley the most hated women in Britain. ibid.
When officers played the tape to Myra Hindley she began to sob. ibid.
Myra Hindley was a target for fellow inmates. ibid.
Myra Hindley cut her ties with Ian Brady – burning all his letters. ibid.
Myra and Trisha were now in different prisons, and their relationship eventually petered out. ibid.
Ian Brady has been on hunger-strike since 1999. ibid.
When the victims first disappear, their families come under suspicion. Myra: Murder, Lies and Manipulation: The Lost Body
John Kilbride’s body was too badly decomposed for the police to ask his family to identify it. ibid.
Five innocent children lured to their deaths by vile predators posing as responsible adults. Crimes that Shook Britain, CI 2015
The horrific act of violence on a defenceless young man is witnessed by at least one other person who will eventually lead the police to further chilling discoveries. ibid.
‘I saw a depression in the peat and something was sticking out of it.’ ibid. young searching officer
Britain’s most notorious child killer Ian Brady abused and murdered his victims before burying them on Saddleworth Moor. 5 children died at his hands devastating the lives of their families … Brady is now Britain’s longest serving prisoner. Ian Brady: 50 Years Behind Bars, Channel 5 2017
In May 1966 Britain had only just abolished the death penalty. ibid.
A psychopathic lack of connection to his crimes. ibid.
Brady was under constant threat from the other prisoners … indefinite solitary confinement. ibid.
He was still the Scrub’s most notorious and reviled inmate … Once again Rule 43 was imposed. ibid.
His physical and mental condition at Gartree deteriorated rapidly. ibid.
He held secrets that gave him a sick sort of power on the outside world and he was about to unleash that power on Hindley to make sure she would never see the light of day again. ibid.
He has slowly descended into madness. ibid.
Saddleworth Moor, Greater Manchester: the ’60s playground of Myra Hindley & Ian Brady: Britain’s most reviled couple. After decades of denials, the police finally get the killers’ confessions. This is the story of the Moors Murders. Murder UK with Martin Kemp: Ian Brady: Moors Murderer, ID 2017
Between July 1963 and October 1965 factory workers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley murdered five children. Disturbingly, Brady and Hindley sexually assaulted their victims before killing them and burying them in shallow graves on Saddleworth Moor. ibid.
‘His sexuality is tied up in sadism and violence.’ ibid.
They’re Britain’s most infamous serial-killer couple. In the mid-1960s Britain was convulsed by the abduction and murder of five children in greater Manchester: their killers now both dead. But their dark legacy lives on in those they attempted to abduct but survived. And it lives on in the relatives of their victims. The Moors Murderers Left Me For Dead I, Channel 5 2017
‘I can still smell now you know the perfume, the very very strong smell of perfume, and hair spray, and her eyes … and she spoke really kindly … He said something along the lines of ‘hurry up’.’ ibid. victim
Myra Hindley and Rose West are Britain’s most notorious serial killers. Between 1963-1965 Myra Hindley was involved in the murder of five children and teenagers. Three decades later, Rose West was jailed for her part in the killing of ten women and girls. They were the first two women in Britain to be given whole-life sentences. What happened to Rose West and Myra Hindley in prison is an extraordinary and untold story. Rose West & Myra Hindley: The Untold Story with Trevor McDonald, ITV 2020
Myra Hindley had been in prison for nearly 30 years when Rose West arrived in Durham. They met almost at once. ibid.
In October 1965 a police photographer took two routine mug-shots. They became two of the most infamous photographs of the twentieth century. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley abducted and murdered five children. They photographed and recorded their crimes. And buried their victims on the moors above Manchester. Moors Murders I: The Witness , Channel 4 2022
17-year-old David Smith was married to Myra Hindley’s sister: ‘I go running into the living room and Brady’s got this lad whacking him and whacking him and hitting him and hitting him with an axe. It’s very violent.’ ibid. Smith
‘I would have done anything just to get out of that house.’ ibid. Smith
Josie O’Dwyer broke Myra Hindley’s nose and put her in hospital. ibid.
‘He was grandiose, he was narcissistic, he was paranoid at the best of times.’ ibid. Kerry Daynes
What excited Hindley was Brady’s secret double life of petty crime, and his taste for motorbikes, guns and the Nazis. ibid.
The discovery of this reel to reel tape turned the police investigation on its head. It would become the most infamous tape recording in British criminal history. Police had no idea when or where it was recorded or who the little girl was. But they realised they were listening to the torture of a child and possibly another murder. And Myra Hindley’s voice was clearly heard on that tape recording. ibid.
In October 1965 Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were arrested for the murder of Edward Evans. Police discovered amongst Brady’s possessions pornographic photographs of a young girl bound and gagged, and a tape recording of her being tortured. Suddenly the question was, Were there more victims? Were the police dealing with serial killers? Moors Murders II: The Lost Letters
Police had also found photographs of Brady and Hindley posing on Saddleworth Moor, just outside Manchester. The photo locations were the crucial breakthrough the police were looking for. ibid.
The involvement of a woman in the murder of a child shocked Britain. Myra Hindley tried to downplay her role on the tape. ibid.
Brady rarely mentions anyone from his childhood by name. ibid.
From an early age Brady played in cemeteries. ibid.
In her teenage years Myra Hindley flourished at school. ibid.