He did not refer directly to Bennett by name and did not claim he could take investigators directly to the grave, but spoke of the "clarity" of his recollections. At various times Hindley gave conflicting statements about the extent to which she, versus Brady, was responsible for Reade being selected as their first victim,[65] but said she felt that there would be less attention given to the disappearance of a teenager than of an 8-year-old. [166] In 2017, the police asked a court to order that two locked briefcases owned by Brady be opened, arguing that they might contain clues to the location of Bennett's body; the application was declined on the grounds that no prosecution was likely to result. [20] He had been known as a hard man while in the army and he expected his daughter to be equally tough; he taught her to fight and insisted that she stick up for herself. Brady was an unusual person with a criminal background, which she was aware of. [108] National and international journalists covering the trial booked up most of the city's hotel rooms. [95], Officers making inquiries at neighbouring houses spoke to 12-year-old Patricia Hodges, who had on several occasions been taken to Saddleworth Moor by Brady and Hindley, and was able to point out their favourite sites along the A635 road. Murders in and around Manchester, England, "The Moors Murderers" redirects here. (1942-2002) Who Was Myra Hindley? In November 1986, Bennett's mother wrote to Hindley begging to know what had happened to her son, a letter that Hindley seemed to be "genuinely moved" by. Hindley later claimed that she waited in the van while Brady took Reade onto the moor. They were convicted of three murders in 1966, and confessed to two further. [50] Hindley hired a vehicle a week after Kilbride went missing, and again on 21 December, apparently to make sure the burial sites at Saddleworth Moor had not been disturbed. They approached her and deliberately dropped some shopping they were carrying, then asked her for help in taking the packages to their car, and then to Wardle Brook Avenue. In February 1964, she bought a second-hand Austin Traveller, but soon after traded it for a Mini van. [234], After stabbing another man during a fight, in an attack he claimed was triggered by the abuse he had suffered since the trial, Smith was sentenced to three years in prison in 1969. All Rights Reserved. Brady later claimed that he had picked up Evans for a sexual encounter. [121], In his closing remarks, Atkinson described the murders as "truly horrible" and the accused as "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity";[3] he recommended they spend "a very long time" in prison before being considered for parole, but did not stipulate a tariff. 1 Comments. 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Brady was found guilty of the murders of Downey, Kilbride and Evans, while Hindley was found guilty of the murders of Downey and Evans, and for harboring Brady, in the knowledge that he had killed Kilbride. Brady's application was rejected and the judge stated that he "continues to suffer from a mental disorder which is of a nature and degree which makes it appropriate for him to continue to receive medical treatment". 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. Four months later, 12-year-old John Kilbride disappeared, never to be seen again. Smith had witnessed Brady killing 17-year-old Edward Evans with an axe, concealing his horror for fear of meeting a similar fate. Here John had been sexually assaulted and strangled, before being buried in the moors. [114] When Smith accepted the News of the World offerits editors had promised additional future payments for syndication and serialisationhe agreed to be paid 15 weekly until the trial, and 1,000 in a lump sum if Brady and Hindley were convicted. Brady made more than one copy of the tape recording; a reproduction composed of children's handprints, "Beware the cat killers: A revolution in tackling domestic violence has begun", "Death at 60 for the woman who came to personify evil", "Coroner commends police after Moors verdict", "Stepfather of Moors Murder Victim Lesley Ann Downey Dies", "Two women at "bodies on moors" trial cover their ears", "Prosecution tells how a youth of 17 died", "How The Chester Chronicle covered the infamous Moors Murders trial", "How Chester was the focus of the nation during Moors Murderers trial Pt1", "How The Chester Chronicle covered the infamous Moors Murders trial Pt2", "Boy tricked into seeing murder, moors trial Q.C. Brady was sentenced to three concurrent life sentences and Hindley was given two, plus a concurrent seven-year term for harbouring Brady in the knowledge that he had murdered Kilbride. [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. [106] Hindley wrote to her mother: I feel as though my heart's been torn to pieces. Now a new . Brady was diagnosed as a psychopath in 1985 and confined in the high-security Ashworth Hospital. On his release from prison, Smith moved in with a 15-year-old girl who became his second wife and won custody of his three sons. Almost 20 years after being sent to prison, he confessed to killing two more. It would never have been possible to carry out such a search in private. Their next victim, John Kilbride, was killed on 23 November. [77] Throughout the previous year Brady had been cultivating a friendship with Smith, who had become "in awe" of Brady, something that increasingly worried Hindley as she felt it compromised their safety.[78]. [112][113], Smith was the chief prosecution witness. In total, Brady and Hindley murdered five children. [d][182], During several years of interactions with forensic psychologist Chris Cowley, including face-to-face meetings,[183] Brady told him of an "aesthetic fascination [he had] with guns",[184] despite his never having used one to kill. His mother continued to visit him throughout his childhood. The story is somewhat similar to the case of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, but unlike Karla, Myra wasn't able to get away with murder and rape. Myra Hindley was born in Crumpsall on 23 July 1942 [17] [18] to parents Nellie and Bob Hindley and raised in Gorton, then a working-class area of Manchester dominated by Victorian slum housing. She claimed that, had Johnson written to her fourteen years earlier, she would have confessed and helped the police. [10] By then, Brady's mother had moved to Manchester and married an Irish fruit merchant named Patrick Brady; Patrick got Ian a job as a fruit porter at Smithfield Market, and Ian took Patrick's surname. 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. 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. A number of authors stated that as a child he tortured animals, although Brady objected to these accusations. 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. Hindley and Brady murdered five children, aged between 10 and 17, in the Greater Manchester area between July 1963 and October 1965. Brady already owned a Box Brownie, which he used to take photographs of Hindley and her dog, Puppet, but he upgraded to a more sophisticated model, and also purchased lights and darkroom equipment. [236], Maureen and her immediate family made regular visits to see Hindley, who reportedly adored her niece. The show was picketed by the. [108] Other elaborate security precautions included a public address system costing 2,500 and 500 worth of telephone equipment. He complained bitterly about conditions at Ashworth, which he hated. [259] Her often reprinted photograph, taken shortly after she was arrested, is described by some commentators as similar to the mythical Medusa and, according to author Helen Birch, has become "synonymous with the idea of feminine evil". "[85], Though Hindley was not initially arrested, she demanded to go with Brady to the police station, taking her dog. There were always suspicions there may have been more. [266] Manchester band The Smiths' song "Suffer Little Children", from their 1984 self-titled debut album, was also inspired by the case. Various authors have stated that he tortured animals, although Brady objected to such accusations. Deciding to "better himself", he obtained a set of instruction manuals on book-keeping from a local public library, with which he "astonished" his parents by studying alone in his room for hours. [248], Reade's mother was admitted to Springfield Mental Hospital in Manchester. Brady read books, including Teach Yourself German and Mein Kampf, as well as works on Nazi atrocities. The victims were children between the ages of 10 and 17, boys and girls. Subjected to whispering campaigns and petitions to remove her from the estate where she lived, Maureen received no support from her familyher mother had supported Myra during the trial. [208], Hindley was told that she should spend twenty-five years in prison before being considered for parole. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were another ruthless predator couple who preyed on the weakest - children. For two harrowing years, Scottish serial killer Ian Brady terrorized Manchester, England with a string of grisly murders. [29] She soon became infatuated with Brady, despite learning that he had a criminal record. View this post on Instagram A post shared by I Could Murder A Podcast (@couldmurderapod) 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. [16], Myra Hindley was born in Crumpsall on 23 July 1942[17][18] to parents Nellie and Bob Hindley and raised in Gorton, then a working-class area of Manchester dominated by Victorian slum housing. "Suffer Little Children" is a song by the English rock band the . What they were doing was out of the scope of most people's understanding, beyond the comprehension of the workaday neighbours who were more interested in how they were going to pay the gas bill or what might happen in the next episode of Coronation Street or Doctor Who. When I ran in I just stood inside the living room and I saw a young lad. see those alluring lights"). [221], On 25 November 2002, the Law Lords agreed that judges, not politicians, should decide how long a criminal spends behind bars, and stripped the Home Secretary of the power to set minimum sentences. [8], Brady's behaviour worsened at Shawlands; as a teenager he twice appeared before a juvenile court for housebreaking. [172] On 7 October the police announced they had ended their search without finding any sign of human remains. The newlyweds moved into Smith's father's house. [200] Brady had refused food and fluids for more than forty-eight hours on various occasions, causing him to be fitted with a nasogastric tube, although his inquest noted that his body mass index was not a cause for concern. The BAFTA-winning actor was fresh from shooting a scene when he walked across a . The 14-year-old girl had suffered a turbulent childhood. [127], Since Brady and Hindley's arrests, newspapers had been keen to connect them to other missing children and teenagers from the area. .css-m6thd4{-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;display:block;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-family:Gilroy,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.2;font-weight:bold;color:#323232;text-transform:capitalize;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-m6thd4:hover{color:link-hover;}}Idaho Murders: What Led Police to Bryan Kohberger, Adnan Syed: A Complete Timeline of His Trial, Appeal and Killing of Hae Min Lee. [124] Throughout the trial Brady and Hindley "stuck rigidly to their strategy of lying",[125] and Hindley was later described as "a quiet, controlled, impassive witness who lied remorselessly". [222] Just prior to this, on 15November 2002, Hindley, aged 60 and a chain smoker, died from bronchial pneumonia at West Suffolk Hospital. [79], Smith then watched Brady throttle Evans with a length of electrical cord. The two talked about society, the distribution of wealth, and the possibility of robbing a bank. He was taken to the moor on 3 July but seemed to lose his bearings, blaming changes in the intervening years; the search was called off at 3:00 pm, by which time a large crowd of press and television reporters had gathered on the moor. On 1 July, after more than 100days of searching, they found Reade's body 3 feet (0.9m) below the surface, 100 yards (90m) from where Downey's had been found. [58] On Hindley's 23rd birthday, her sister and brother-in-law, who had until then been living with relatives, were rehoused in Underwood Court, a block of flats not far from Wardle Brook Avenue. While her older sister, Myra, moved next door with their grandma, Ellen Maybury. As she wrote later, "At eight years old I'd scored my first victory". [174] He spent nineteen years in mainstream prisons before being diagnosed as a psychopath in November 1985 and sent to the high-security Park Lane Hospital, now Ashworth Hospital, in Maghull, Merseyside;[175] he made it clear that he never wanted to be released. Then the screams carried on, one after another really loud. Astrological Sign: Leo, Death Year: 2002, Death date: November 16, 2002, Article Title: Myra Hindley Biography, Author: Biography.com Editors, Website Name: The Biography.com website, Url: https://www.biography.com/crime/myra-hindley, Publisher: A&E; Television Networks, Last Updated: May 12, 2021, Original Published Date: April 2, 2014. He made it clear that he never wished to be released and repeatedly asked to be allowed to die. [84] Hindley denied there had been any violence, and allowed police to look around the house. [30] Hindley began a diary and, although she had dates with other men, some of the entries detail her fascination with Brady, to whom she eventually spoke for the first time on 27 July. Hindley claimed that when Downey was being undressed she herself was "downstairs"; when the pornographic photographs were taken she was "looking out the window"; and that when Downey was being strangled she "was running a bath". [35] Brady was taken to HM Prison Durham and Hindley was sent to HM Prison Holloway. 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. [240] It was a threat repeated by her son Danny. 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. Since her daughter's death, she had campaigned to ensure that Hindley remained in prison, and doctors said that the stress had contributed to the severity of her illness. Hindley and her solicitor left Cookham Wood at 4:30am, flew to the moor by helicopter from an airfield near Maidstone, and then were driven, and walked, around the area until 3:00pm. At 6:10a.m., having waited for daylight and armed himself with a screwdriver and bread knife in case Brady was planning to intercept him Smith called police from a phone box on the estate. [202][203], Hindley lodged an unsuccessful appeal against her conviction immediately after the trial. Fisher persuaded Hindley to release a public statement, which touched on her reasons for denying her guilt previously, her religious experiences in prison, and the letter from Johnson. )[33] Their dates followed a regular pattern: a trip to the cinema, usually to watch an X-rated film, then back to Hindley's house to drink German wine. [257], The photographs and tape recording of the torture of Downey exhibited in court, and the nonchalant responses of Brady and Hindley, helped to ensure their lasting notoriety. [255], In November 2017 it was revealed that, without the knowledge of her family, some of the remains of Pauline Reade, including her jaw bone, had been kept at the University of Leeds by Greater Manchester Police. As a child, she lived with Nellie Hindley in a little two-up, two-down semi-detached house. In 2011, he co-authored the book Witness with biographer Carol Ann Lee. Hindley, 60 . [2] The trial judge, Justice Fenton Atkinson, described Brady and Hindley in his closing remarks as "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity". [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. When this happens at a young age, it can distort a person's reaction to such situations for life."[22]. Hindley later maintained that she went to fill a bath for Downey and found her dead when she returned; Brady claimed that Hindley killed Downey. He died in 2017, at Ashworth, aged 79. [3] Their crimes were the subject of extensive worldwide media coverage. [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. Clitheroe, although puzzled by her interest, arranged for her to buy a .22 rifle from a gun merchant in Manchester. [204] She corresponded with Brady by letter until 1971, when she ended their relationship. Brady gave Smith books to read, and the two discussed robbery and murder. Yet on December 30, 1964,. She, along with her partner Ian Brady, killed five children burying them on the Manchester Mo [13] He was sent to Latchmere House in London,[12] and then Hatfield borstal in the West Riding of Yorkshire. She burst into tears and ran to her father, who threatened to "leather" her if she did not retaliate; Hindley found the boy and knocked him down with a series of punches. [12] As he was still under 18, Brady was sentenced to two years in a borstal for "training". I heard the blow, it was a terrible hard blow, it sounded horrible. [109], Brady and Hindley were charged with murdering Evans, Downey and Kilbride. She took up a collection for a wreath; his funeral was held at St Francis's Monastery in Gorton Lane. Brady was in the back of the van. The next day, Brady suggested that the four take a day-trip to Windermere. [130], On 3 July 1985, DCS Topping visited Brady, then being held at HM Prison Gartree in Leicestershire, but found him "scornful of any suggestion that he had confessed to more murders". Between December 1997 and March 2000, Hindley made three separate appeals against her life tariff, claiming she was a reformed woman and no longer a danger to society, but each was rejected by the courts. Finally, in October 1965, police were alerted to the duo by Hindley's 17-year-old brother-in-law, David Smith. Hindley admitted that her attitude towards Downey was "brusque and cruel", but claimed that was only because she was afraid that someone might hear Downey screaming. [53] The couple never harmed Hodges, since she lived only a few doors away, which would have made it easy for police to solve any disappearance. The only consolation is that some moron might have got hold of Puppet and hurt him. He called Brady "wicked beyond belief" and said he saw no reasonable possibility of reform for him, though he did not think the same necessarily true of Hindley once "removed from [Brady's] influence". Brady had a girlfriend, Evelyn Grant, but their relationship ended when he threatened her with a flick knife after she visited a dance with another boy. [82], Superintendent Bob Talbot of the Stalybridge police division went to Wardle Brook Avenue, accompanied by a detective sergeant. Hindley stayed with Reade while Brady retrieved a spade he had hidden nearby on a previous visit, then returned to the van while Brady buried Reade. She dies on 15 th. Hindley led him into the living room, where Brady was lying on a divan, writing to his employer about his ankle injury. I have had enough. [129] This followed claims in 2004 that Hindley had told another inmate that she and Brady had murdered a sixth victim, a teenage girl. We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. When Myra was young, her father beat her up regularly, but he also trained her how to battle. [148], In April 1987, news of Hindley's confession became public. Myra Hindley, July 23, Myra Hindley was born 23rd July 1942, to Bob and Nellie Hindley, She was born in Crumpsall, in the United Kingdom, and grew up in Gorton which was part of Manchester. Her father was an alcoholic who was frequently violent towards his wife and children. The two couples began to see each other more regularly, but usually only on Brady's terms.[59][60]. Their crime was the most hideous and cruel in modern times. In the letter, Johnson was sympathetic to Hindley over the criticism surrounding her first visit. Between 1963 and 1965, Myra Hindley and her lover Ian Brady lured four children Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, and Lesley Ann Downey into their car under the pretense of giving them a ride home. [231] That same year his children were taken into the care of the local authority. [107], The 14-day trial began in a specially-prepared court room at Chester Assizes before Justice Fenton Atkinson, on 19 April 1966. [145], At about the same time, Johnson sent Hindley another letter, again pleading with her to assist the police in finding the body of her son Keith. Some commentators expressed the view that of the two, Hindley was the "more evil". 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. [102] At the committal hearing on 6 December, Brady was charged with the murders of Evans, Kilbride, and Downey, and Hindley with the murders of Evans and Downey, as well as with harbouring Brady in the knowledge that he had killed Kilbride. [196], In 2012, Brady applied to be returned to prison, reiterating his desire to starve himself to death. Hindley plead not guilty to all of the murders. [52], In 1964, Hindley, her grandmother, and Brady were rehoused as part of the post-war slum clearances in Manchester, to 16Wardle Brook Avenue in the new overspill estate of Hattersley, Cheshire. [230], David Smith became "reviled by the people of Manchester"[231] for financially profiting from the murders. I hope she goes to Hell. [213][260] At the 1997 Sensation art exhibition, a reproduction composed of children's handprints caused controversy. [88] Brady told police that he and Evans had fought, but insisted that he and Smith had murdered Evans and that Hindley had "only done what she had been told". Myra Hindley was an English serial killer. Once presented with some of the details that Hindley had provided of Reade's abduction, Brady decided that he too was prepared to confess, but on one condition: that immediately afterwards he be given the means to commit suicide, a request with which it was impossible for the authorities to comply. Hindley claimed that Brady began to talk about "committing the perfect murder" in July 1963,[47] and often spoke to her about Meyer Levin's Compulsion, published as a novel in 1956 and adapted for the cinema in 1959. [186] Brady subsequently went on hunger strike, but while English law allows patients to refuse treatment, those being treated for mental disorders under the Mental Health Act 1983 have no such right if the treatment is for their mental disorder. They drove to Brady and Hindley's home at Wardle Brook Avenue, where they relaxed over a bottle of wine. British criminal and perpetrator of the infamous "Moors murders". [246][247], In 1977, a BBC television debate discussed arguments for and against Hindley's release, with Lord Longford, a Catholic convert, on the side who argued that she should be released, and Downey's mother arguing against her release and threatening to kill her were the release to occur. 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. [26] At 17, she became engaged after a short courtship, but called it off several months later after deciding the young man was immature and unable to provide her with the life she wanted. [241][242], In 1972, Smith was acquitted of the murder of his father, who had been suffering from terminal cancer. The pair took photographs of each other that, for the time, would have been considered explicit. Myra Hindley did not have a child at the time. Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are known to have killed at least five child victims. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. Site contains certain content that is owned A&E Television Networks, LLC. [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". [177] Hindley was not informed of the decision until 1994, when a Law Lords ruling obliged the Prison Service to inform all life sentence prisoners of the minimum period they must serve in prison before being considered for parole. 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]. [159][160] Hindley told Topping that she knew nothing of these killings. Jones decided not to charge the News of the World on similar grounds.
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