[2] The trial judge, Justice Fenton Atkinson, described Brady and Hindley in his closing remarks as "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity". With his girlfriend Myra Hindley, Ian Brady kidnapped, tortured, and murdered five children one as young as 10 in a series of notorious slayings known as the Moors Murders. [15], In January 1959, Brady applied for, and was offered, a clerical job at Millwards, a wholesale chemical distribution company based in Gorton. He was regarded by his colleagues as a quiet, punctual, but short-tempered young man. Myra and Ian tortured and murdered five children between 1963 and 1965 and the series shines a light on some of the never-previously-seen prison letters between the killers. [129] This followed claims in 2004 that Hindley had told another inmate that she and Brady had murdered a sixth victim, a teenage girl. On 21 October they found the "badly decomposed" body of Kilbride, which had to be identified by clothing. He was picked up by a police car from the phone box and taken to Hyde police station, where he told officers what he had witnessed in the night. [6] It was reported, for example, that Brady boasted of killing his first cat when he was aged just 10, and then went on to burn another cat alive, stone dogs and cut off rabbits' heads. It was simply beyond the realms of most people's comprehension, and this is why they managed to get away with it for so long. [187] He was therefore force-fed and transferred to another hospital for tests after he fell ill.[188] Brady recovered and in March 2000 asked for a judicial review of the legality of the decision to force-feed him, but was refused permission. Myra is a large painting which is a reproduction of the mugshot of Myra Hindley shortly after she was arrested for her participation in the Moors murders and was created by Marcus Harvey in 1995. [137], On 16 December 1986, Hindley made the first of two visits to assist the police search of the moor. First victim Pauline Reade, 16, disappeared on her way to a . [127], Since Brady and Hindley's arrests, newspapers had been keen to connect them to other missing children and teenagers from the area. The marriage was hastily arranged and performed at a register office. Brady and Hindley killed five children - Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans all aged between 10 and 17, and at least four of whom were sexually. GMP apologised to the Reade family. [176], The trial judge recommended that Brady's life sentence should mean life, and successive Home Secretaries agreed with that decision. [12] As he was still under 18, Brady was sentenced to two years in a borstal for "training". [116] Comparing Smith's testimony with his initial statements to police, Atkinsonthough describing the paper's actions as "gross interference with the course of justice"concluded it was not "substantially affected" by the financial incentive. Myra Hindley did not have a child at the time. A few months later, she asked her friend to destroy the letter. [250] Bennett's mother continued to visit Saddleworth Moor, where it is believed that Bennett is buried. Jones decided not to charge the News of the World on similar grounds. This time, the level of security surrounding her visit was considerably higher. In June 1957,[23] one of Hindley's closest friends, 13-year-old Michael Higgins, invited Hindley to go swimming with friends at a local disused reservoir, but she instead went out elsewhere with another friend. I heard the blow, it was a terrible hard blow, it sounded horrible. It was displayed at the Sensation exhibition of Young British Artists at the Royal Academy of Art in London from 8 September to 28 December 1997. [150] Brady had been co-operating with the police for some time, and when this news reached him he made a formal confession to DCS Topping,[151] and in a statement to the press said that he too would help police in their search. [11], Within a year of moving to Manchester, Brady was caught with a sack full of lead seals he had stolen and was trying to smuggle out of the market. Myra Hindley was born on the 23rd of July, 1942. The following day, Hindley brought her grandmother back home. [230], David Smith became "reviled by the people of Manchester"[231] for financially profiting from the murders. Myra Hindley was born on 23 July, 1942, in Crumpsall, a suburb in Manchester. [265], The book The Loathsome Couple by Edward Gorey (Mead, 1977) was inspired by the Moors murders. During the 1990s, Hindley claimed that she took part in the killings only because Brady had drugged her, was blackmailing her with pornographic pictures he had taken of her, and had threatened to kill Maureen. The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. On 11 October, she too was arrested and taken into custody, being charged as an accessory to the murder of Evans and was remanded at HM Prison Risley. Even Hindley's mother insisted that she should die in prison, partly for fear for Hindley's safety. [159][160] Hindley told Topping that she knew nothing of these killings. [87] Over the next four days Hindley visited her employer and asked to be dismissed so that she would be eligible for unemployment benefits. When police returned to the living room they arrested Brady on suspicion of murder. Few outside the art world remember the name Marcus Harvey, but many recall his portrait of serial child killer Myra Hindley composed of children's handprints. As the death penalty for murder had been abolished while Brady and Hindley were held on remand, the judge passed the only sentence that the law allowed: life imprisonment. [110] The Attorney General, Sir Elwyn Jones, led the prosecution, assisted by William Mars-Jones. Each was brought before the court separately and remanded into custody for a week. [222] Just prior to this, on 15November 2002, Hindley, aged 60 and a chain smoker, died from bronchial pneumonia at West Suffolk Hospital. The bodies of two of the victims were discovered in 1965, in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered there in 1987, more than twenty years after Brady and Hindley's trial. The phrase "Hindley wakes and Hindley says; Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes . Bob served in a parachute regiment during World War II so was absent for the majority of the first three years of Hindley's life. Child killer Myra Hindley accused fellow Moors Murderer Ian Brady of drugging, raping and beating her. Her father was an alcoholic who was frequently violent towards his wife and children. The investigation was reopened in 1985 after Brady was reported as having confessed to the murders of Reade and Bennett. Smith had witnessed Brady killing 17-year-old Edward Evans with an axe, concealing his horror for fear of meeting a similar fate. [101], Presented with the evidence of the tape recording, Brady admitted to taking the photographs of Downey, but insisted that she had been brought to Wardle Brook Avenue by two men who had subsequently taken her away again, alive. His stepfather, Jimmy Johnson, became a suspect; in the two years following Bennett's disappearance, Johnson was taken for questioning on four occasions. [232] During the trial, Maureeneight months pregnantwas attacked in the lift of the building in which she and Smith lived. She was found guilty of three murders and was jailed for life. Myra Hindley and Rose West became two of the most despised and feared women in Britain when their secret lives as serial killers were exposed. [139] On 10 February 1987 Hindley formally confessed to involvement in all five murders,[141] but this was not made public for more than a month. [57] By February 1965, Hodges had stopped visiting Wardle Brook Avenue, but Smith was still a regular visitor. Moors Murderer Ian Brady refused to say what . Hindley, 60 . Hodges accompanied the two on their trips to Saddleworth Moor to collect peat, something that many householders on the new estate did to improve the soil in their gardens, which were full of clay and builder's rubble. [143] He added that he "was struck by the fact that [in Hindley's telling] she was never there when the killings took place. The two remained in sporadic contact for several months,[205] but Hindley had fallen in love with one of her prison warders, Patricia Cairns. Although Winnie Johnson's letter may have played a part, he believed that Hindley, knowing of Brady's "precarious" mental state, was concerned he might co-operate with the police and reap any available public-approval benefit. The Moors Murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. The victims were children between the ages of 10 and 17, boys and girls. For the punk band, see, Brady and Hindley after their arrests in October1965, Brady told the police thirty years later that everything he had ever done was in. The murders of Keith Bennett and Pauline Reade were not attributed to Myra Hindley and Ian Brady until 1985, after "Suffer Little Children" had already been released. [70] When they reached the moor Brady took Kilbride with him while Hindley waited in the car; Brady sexually assaulted Kilbride and tried to slit his throat with a six-inch serrated blade before strangling him with a shoelace or string. The lad was still screaming Ian had a hatchet in his hand he was holding it above his head and he hit the lad on the left side of his head with the hatchet. Hindley began to emulate an ideal of Aryan perfection, bleaching her hair blonde and applying thick crimson lipstick. [144], Police visited Brady in prison again and told him of Hindley's confession, which at first he refused to believe. The pair were charged only for the murders of Kilbride, Downey and Evans, and received life sentences under a whole life tariff. Following the first . [258] Hindley's role in the crimes also violated gender norms: her betrayal of the maternal role fed public perceptions of her "inherent evil", and made her a "poster girl" for moral panics about serial murder and paedophilia in subsequent decades. Brady and Hindley became friendly with Patricia Hodges, an 11-year-old girl who lived at 12Wardle Brook Avenue. At the house Downey was undressed, gagged, and forcibly posed for photographs before being raped and killed, perhaps strangled with a piece of string. He was sent to Strangeways for three months. Now a new . [197] At a mental health tribunal in June the following year, he claimed that he suffered not from paranoid schizophrenia, as his doctors at Ashworth maintained, but a personality disorder. Brady was an amazing individual with a lawbreaker background, which she knew. The 14-year-old girl had suffered a turbulent childhood. [108] National and international journalists covering the trial booked up most of the city's hotel rooms. The newlyweds moved into Smith's father's house. [38] The couple were regulars at the library, borrowing books on philosophy, as well as crime and torture. [55] On the same day, Lesley Ann Downey disappeared from a funfair in Ancoats. On one of these occasions, she found an envelope belonging to Brady which she burned in an ashtray; she claimed she did not open it but believed it contained plans for bank robberies. The show was picketed by the. Please, Miss Hindley, help me. Higgins drowned in the reservoir, and Hindleya good swimmerwas deeply upset and blamed herself. [93][94] Downey's mother later confirmed that the recording, too, was of her daughter. Hindley's 17-year-old brother-in-law tipped off the police about her crimes. [142] The tape recording of her statement was over seventeen hours long; Topping described it as a "very well worked out performance in which, I believe, she told me just as much as she wanted me to know, and no more". She died in 2002 in West Suffolk Hospital, aged 60, after serving 36 years in prison. [201] He was cremated without a ceremony, and his ashes disposed of at sea during the night. En route he suggested another detour, this time to search for a glove Hindley had lost on the moor. [56] Despite a huge search, she was not found. [154] Brady was taken to the moor a second time on 8 December, and claimed to have located Bennett's burial site,[155][156] but the body was never found. In June 1964, 12-year-old Keith Bennett followed. [178], Although Brady refused to work with Ashworth's psychiatrists, he occasionally corresponded with people outside the hospitalsubject to prison authorities' censorship[179] including Lord Longford, writer Colin Wilson, and various journalists. He complained bitterly about conditions at Ashworth, which he hated. [190] In the book, Brady recounted his friendship in prison with the "teacup poisoner" Graham Young, who shared Brady's admiration for Nazi Germany. [157], Soon after his first visit to the moor, Brady wrote a letter to a BBC reporter, giving some sketchy details of five additional deaths that he claimed to have been involved in: a man in the Piccadilly area of Manchester, another victim on Saddleworth Moor, two more in Scotland, and a woman whose body was allegedly dumped in a canal. Murders in and around Manchester, England, "The Moors Murderers" redirects here. In partnership with Ian Brady, she committed the rapes and murders of five small children. [4] The identity of Brady's father has never been reliably ascertained, although his mother said he was a reporter working for a Glasgow newspaper who died three months before Brady was born. As a child, she lived with Nellie Hindley in a little two-up, two-down semi-detached house. [35][40][a] Although Hindley was not a qualified driver (she passed her test on 7 November 1963 after failing three times),[43] she often hired a van, in which the couple planned bank robberies. Police found no one who had seen Reade before her disappearance, and although the 15-year-old Smith was questioned by police, he was cleared of any involvement in her death.[49]. [91] Inside one of the cases wereamong an assortment of costumes, notes, photographs and negativesnine pornographic photographs taken of Downey, naked and with a scarf tied across her mouth, and a sixteen-minute audiotape recording of a girl identifying herself as "Lesley Ann Weston"[b] screaming, crying, and pleading to be allowed to return home to her mother.