But their talk soon turned more sinister and Brady began to talk about how he wanted to commit the "perfect murder". On July 12, , the couple killed their first victim , year-old Pauline Reade. Hindley had lured the teenager to Saddleworth Moor and, according to Brady, helped sexually assault her before her throat was slashed. Brady later sexually assaulted the youngster and attempted to slit his throat with a six-inch serrated blade before fatally strangling him with a piece of string.
Keith Bennett was on his way to his grandmother's house on June 16, , when Hindley lured him into her van. In search of another victim, the couple visited a fairground on Boxing Day, , and came across Lesley Ann Downey. They approached the ten-year-old and lured her back to their house, where she was undressed, gagged and forced to pose for photographs before being raped and killed.
The following morning Brady and Hindley drove with Downey's body to Saddleworth Moor, where she was buried, naked with her clothes at her feet, in a shallow grave. Myra Hindley died of respiratory failure in at the age of sixty.
Ian Brady died of natural causes in at the age of seventy-nine. Twitter Facebook Instagram Youtube. Myra Hindley Myra Hindley was an English serial killer. As she became a woman, he encouraged her to read the works of the sexual sadist, the Marquis De Sade. Brady was her first lover. So her father had beaten her from a young age, Ian Her childhood had in sense prepared her to enter this world.
Whatever his fantasy, she would indulge him. She posed for pornographic pictures. The couple got drunk on wine, a flashy drink for a working class couple. They often picnicked on the Saddleworth Moor near Oldham. Myra looked happy in the many photos Brady took of her.
A bit hard, but any promises she made, she always kept. To them, she became increasingly surly, secretive and submissive. When Brady tested her by pretending to plan a bank robbery, she never questioned him. In she learnt to drive in order to be his getaway driver. She also purchased two guns. Brady knew she was ready to do whatever he asked.
And her new driving skills would be useful for what he had in mind. She awoke one morning to find herself drugged, raped and bitten. He also photographed her during the process.
Myra was now so brutalised and brainwashed that what followed would no longer be abhorrent. Brady's hold over Hindley continued for a number of years beyond their trial, and at one stage they requested permission to marry, which was refused. However, in Hindley severed all contact with Brady and, still protesting her innocence, began a lifelong campaign to regain her freedom. In , Hindley again became the centre of media attention, with the public release of her full confession, in which she admitted her involvement in all five murders.
The confessions confirmed police suspicions that the remains of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett had been buried somewhere on the moors, and Pauline's body was finally located on 1 July , identified by the party dress she was wearing to the dance on the last night of her life. Her campaign for freedom was dealt its final blow when her application for parole in resulted in then Home Secretary, Michael Howard, bowing to intense public pressure and ruling that Hindley, as well as Brady, would never be released from prison.
She challenged this decision in the High Court, but was unsuccessful. A further appeal to the House of Lords was similarly defeated in March Hindley died of respiratory failure, following an earlier heart attack, on 16 November The pair of them have made my heart very hard and really I just hope she goes to hell. Hindley and Brady were given the same solicitor. This meant they could meet before their trial. They used the opportunity to exchange coded messages.
They detailed the joy the murders had brought them. The secret messages expanded on their desires to harm children. By the time their trial began on 19 April , the killer couple were worldwide news. She would stick to this story till the day he died. Hindley and Brady were brought to trial at Chester Assizes on 27 April , where they pleaded "not guilty" to all charges.
It was so upsetting that many broke down in tears. Hindley looked unmoved. The car attacked was in fact a decoy. Brady had already been smuggled out of court. She was found not guilty of the killing of John Kilbride.
The year-old Hindley was sentenced to two concurrent life sentences. At the time of the sentencing, the burial sites of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett were still undiscovered. Hindley would take the location of the last resting place of Keith Bennett to her grave. I cannot feel that the same is necessarily true of Hindley once she is removed from his influence.
Over the following decades of prison, Hindley would come to wish that she had been sentenced to hang. David had to tell his story over and over to increasingly senior police.
Police superintendent Bob Talbot dressed as a bakery delivery man in order to fool Hindley into opening the door. She reluctantly gave him it. They arrested Brady immediately. The year-old Hindley is brought in for questioning but said she had been horrified by what had happened. With no evidence to charge her, she remained at liberty for four more days. She used the time to go to the company where they worked and dispose of incriminating evidence.
The police were dealing with a unique criminal couple. It was the first time in British history that a woman and a man had together committed serial sex murders on children. The police were all too aware of the unexplained disappearances. Ian lifted the axe into the air, and brought it down upon the man's head. There was silence for a couple of seconds, and then the man groaned again, only it was much lower this time. Lifting the axe high above his head, Ian brought it down a second time.
The man stopped groaning. The only sound he made was a gurgling noise. Ian then placed a cover over the youth's head and wrapped a piece of electric wire around his neck. As he repeatedly pulled on the wire, Ian kept saying "You fucking dirty bastard," over and over again.
When the man finally stopped making any noise, Ian looked up and said to Myra , "That's it, it's the messiest yet. As Myra made them all a cup of tea, she and Brady joked about the look on the young man's face when Brady had struck him. They laughed as they told David about another occasion when a policeman had confronted Myra while they had been burying another of their victims on Saddleworth Moor.
Ian had told David that he had killed some people before but David thought it was just a sick fantasy. This was real. He was horrified and scared for his own safety. He decided that the best thing he could do was to keep calm and go along with them. He helped them to clean up the mess, tie up the body and put it in the bedroom upstairs. It was not until the early hours of the morning that he had been able to escape, promising to return in the morning to help dispose of the body. Safely back at home, he was violently sick.
He told Maureen everything and together they went to a public phone box to call the police. Two-dozen additional officers were called to the area, just in case. Any concerns that there may be a confrontation were quickly put to rest. Myra reluctantly gave him a key to the upstairs bedroom, the only room in the house that was locked, where the body of a young man was found wrapped in a grey blanket.
The axe described by Smith as the murder weapon was found in the same room. Ian Brady was arrested immediately. At the police station, Brady told police that there had been an argument between himself, David Smith and the victim, year-old Edward Evans. A fight had ensued which soon got out of control. Smith had hit Evans and kicked him several times. There had been a hatchet on the floor, which Brady said he had used to hit Evans. According to Brady, he and Smith alone had tied up the body.
Myra had nothing to do with Evans's death. When Myra was questioned, she supported Brady's story, describing how she had been horrified and frightened by the ordeal. She was not arrested until four days later, after police had found a three-page document in her car that described in explicit detail how she and Brady had planned to carry out the murder.
The investigation would probably have gone no further if Smith had not told police of Brady's claim that he had buried other bodies on Saddleworth Moor. Other references to the same area confirmed Smith's story. A twelve-year-old girl, Pat Hodge, told police that she had often gone with Hindley and Brady up to the moors on picnics, and numerous photos of the moors were found in their home.
Once the area where Brady and Hindley frequented was pinpointed, the digging began. Police believed that the bodies of four children who had mysteriously disappeared over the past two years might have been buried in the moors. They were proved right on 10 October when the body of year-old Lesley Anne Downey was found.
Lesley had disappeared without a trace on 26 December Eleven days after the first discovery, the body of year-old John Kilbride was found. John had disappeared without a trace, on November 11, In , a case such as this was unique. It was the first time in British history that a woman had been involved in a killing partnership that had involved the serial sex murders of children.
The public could not comprehend how any woman could take part in such a horrific crime; her involvement made the crimes seem even more evil and unforgivable. Myra Hindley. What had driven this young couple to such depths of depravity? While Ian Brady's childhood history reveals many indicators of the troubled young man he grew to be, in Myra 's case few insights can be drawn.
How did a seemingly normal child grow into an adult so perverted that she would gain pleasure from the sexual abuse and murder of children? As her father served in a parachute regiment during the first three years of her life, Myra 's mother raised her alone. They lived with Hettie's mother, Ellen Maybury, who helped to look after Myra while Hettie went to work as a machinist.
When Bob returned they bought their own home just around the corner from Hettie's mother. Bob had trouble re-adjusting to civilian life and would spend most of the time he wasn't working as a labourer, in the local pub. When their second child, Maureen, was born in August , Bob and Hettie, who both worked, found the workload to be too much and decided to send Myra to live with her grandmother.
While the move to her grandmother's home solved many of the family's problems -- Ellen was no longer lonely, the pressure on Bob and Hettie was relieved considerably and Myra enjoyed the devoted attention of her grandmother -- it meant that Myra and her father's relationship never fully developed.
He wasn't an emotionally demonstrative man and his absence during Myra 's formative years created a breach that was never filled. Myra started school at Peacock Street Primary School at the age of five. Here she was considered a mature and sensible girl, although her attendance was poor due to her grandmother's tendency to allow her to stay home on the slightest pretence. Her many absences led to her not gaining the necessary grades to attend the local grammar school.
Instead, she went to Ryder Brow Secondary Modern. Although her poor attendance record continued in high school, she was consistently in the 'A' stream in all her subjects.
During this period, she exhibited some talent for creative writing and poetry. She loved sport and athletics and was a good swimmer. In appearance and personality, Myra was not considered particularly feminine and was given the nickname 'Square Arse' because of her broad hips. She was also teased about the shape of her nose. Her reputation as being a mature and sensible girl meant that she was a popular babysitter during her teens.
Parents and children alike were delighted if Myra was to be their babysitter. She was very capable and demonstrated a genuine love of children. At the age of 15, Myra befriended Michael Higgins, a timid and fragile year-old boy whom she looked after and protected as if he were her younger brother. As far as she was concerned, they would be life-long friends.
She was devastated when he drowned in a reservoir, often used as a swimming hole by local children. Her grief was made all the worse by her sense of guilt because she had turned down his offer to go swimming with him that day. She believed that as she was a strong swimmer she could have saved him.
Over the next few weeks, Myra was inconsolable, fluctuating between hysteria and depression. She cried, dressed in black, went to church nightly to light a candle for Michael, and collected money from neighbours for a wreath. Her family was troubled by what they perceived as her over-reaction, telling her that she must control herself. Her grief was reflected in her conversion to Roman Catholicism, Michael's religion, and the deterioration of her schoolwork.
It was not long after Michael's death that she left school, as she was not considered bright enough to stay on to complete her O-levels, despite an IQ of Her first job was as a junior clerk at Lawrence Scott and Electrometers, an electrical engineering firm.
During this time, Myra was much like other Gorton girls in their teens. She would go to dances and cafes, listened to rock 'n' roll, flirted with boys and had the occasional cigarette. Her appearance became more important to her, and it was at this time that she began to bleach her hair and wear dark make-up, in an attempt to appear older. On her seventeenth birthday, she became engaged to Ronnie Sinclair, a local boy who worked as a tea-blender at the local Co-op.
Myra 's apparent contentment with her ordinary life did not last for long. The prospect of her pending marriage caused her to question the lifestyle to which she was expected to conform. After marriage was the purchase of a small house, then would come the children and the years of trying to make ends meet while her husband spent all of their money at the local pub. Myra knew this was not for her and called off the engagement. She wanted something more exciting.
Her search began with an application for entrance forms to the navy and the army, but she never sent them in. She considered working as a nanny in America but never followed it through. She went off to London in search of a job, but that too bore no fruit.
Two years had passed before something new and exciting finally came to her. In January , she met Ian Brady for the first time. Ian Brady. Ian Brady was born, on 2 January in Gorbals, one of the roughest slums in Glasgow at the time. His mother, Margaret Peggy Stewart was a tearoom waitress in a hotel. Although she was single, she would always sign herself as Mrs. Stewart; as to be an unmarried mother at this time met with strong disapproval. Peggy never disclosed who Ian's father was, except that he was a journalist for a Glasgow newspaper who had died a few months before Ian was born.
With no husband to support her, she found it necessary to continue working as a waitress, even if only part-time. As she was often unable to afford a babysitter, Peggy would sometimes have to leave baby Ian at home alone.
It did not take her long to realise that she could not cope with her baby alone. To solve the problem she advertised for a permanent babysitter to take Ian into their home, providing the care and attention she was unable to give him.
Mary and John Sloane answered the advertisement. They had four children of their own and seemed trustworthy and caring. At the age of four months, Ian was unofficially "adopted" by the couple. Peggy signed over Ian's welfare payments to them and arranged to visit every Sunday. As each Sunday came around Peggy would bring gifts for her growing son but never told him that she was his mother.
Mary Sloane was always "auntie" or "ma. Peggy had moved with her new husband, Patrick Brady, to Manchester. The ambiguity of his relationship with his mother and the nature of the arrangements with the Sloanes meant that Ian always felt that he didn't really belong.
Despite the Sloanes' attempts to provide a loving environment, Ian showed no response to their care and attention. Throughout his childhood, he was lonely, difficult, and angry. Temper tantrums were frequent and extreme, often ending with him banging his head on the floor. At Camden Street Primary School , Brady was considered by his teachers to be a bright child, but he never tried as hard as he could have. The other children saw him as different, secretive and an outsider.
He didn't play sport like the other boys and was considered a "sissy. The Sloanes and Brady remember an incident when he was nine years old. It was to be Ian's first outing out of the Gorbals. They went to the moors of Loch Lomond , where they spent the day picnicking. After lunch, the Sloanes napped in the grass. When they awoke, Ian was gone. They saw him standing yards away at the top of a steep slope. For an hour, he stood there, silhouetted against the giant sky.
They called and whistled to him but could not attract his attention. When the two Sloane boys climbed the hill to fetch him he told them to go on home without him, he wanted to be alone. On the way home on the bus he was talkative for the first time in his life. For Ian, the time spent alone on that hillside had been a profound experience, one that would influence him into adulthood. He had felt himself alone at the centre of a vast, limitless territory.
It was his. It belonged to him. He was filled with a sense of power and strength. In the midst of all this emptiness, he was master and king. At the age of eleven, Ian passed his entrance exams to Shawlands Academy , a school for pupils with above-average intelligence. His potential was never realised however as he was lazy, would not apply himself, and began to misbehave. He started smoking, virtually gave up on his schoolwork and before long was in trouble with the police.
It was at this time that his fascination with the Second World War, particularly the Nazis, began to emerge. The books he read and the subject of his conversation was always related to Nazis. Even his play was influenced by his obsession, he always insisted on playing a German in war games with his friends. Between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, Brady had been charged on three counts of housebreaking and burglary.
On the third occasion, the court decided not to give him a custodial sentence, on the condition that he move to Manchester to live with Peggy and her husband Patrick Brady. He had not seen Peggy for four years and had never met his stepfather. It was the end of when Brady moved to Moss Side to start again. Living with strangers and having a strong Scottish accent that branded him as different in the community meant that Brady became even more socially withdrawn than ever before.
He attempted to gain a sense of belonging to his new family by changing his name from Stewart to Brady, and, although he did not get on particularly well with his stepfather, he took the job that Patrick found for him as a porter at the local market. The sense that he didn't belong persisted, however, and he searched for direction through his reading.
Within books such as Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, the works of Marquis de Sade, and sadistic titles such as Justine, The Kiss of the Whip, and The Torture Chamber, Brady discovered something he could relate to, something exciting. A little over a year after he moved to Moss Side, Brady had returned to a life of crime. He had left his job at the market and was working in a brewery when he was arrested for aiding and abetting.
His employers had discovered that he had been stealing lead seals. The courts were not so lenient this time and he was sentenced to two years in a borstal, an institution for young offenders. There were no places available for three months, so he was sent to Strangeways Prison in Manchester , where at the age of seventeen, he learned quickly to toughen up.
He was moved to Hatfield borstal in Yorkshire where the regime was much lighter. Brady, taking advantage of the reduction in security began brewing and drinking his own alcohol and running gambling books. A drunken scuffle with a warder landed him in a much harder borstal in Hull Prison. Here he actively set out to learn more of the criminal way of life, from which he intended to make a great deal of money. His expectations were so high that he even took courses in bookkeeping.
When he was released in November , his family noticed that he was even more silent and brooding than before. He was unemployed for several months before he obtained work as a labourer for six months. While he continued in his attempts to find a criminal scheme that would make him rich, he decided to put his bookkeeping skills to legitimate use. In , he began work as a stock clerk with Millwards Merchandising.
A little more than a year later, a new secretary arrived. Birds of A Feather. For Myra , their first meeting was the beginning of an "immediate and fatal attraction. Compared to Brady, the likes of Ronnie Sinclair were dull, naive, and unambitious. Every night, she would write in her diary of her intense longing for Brady, a longing that would remain unfulfilled for some time.
As she fluctuated from "loving him to hating him," Brady remained steadfastly disinterested for a year. At the office Christmas party, Brady, relaxed by a few drinks, asked Hindley for their first date. It was to be the beginning of her initiation into his secret world. That first night he took her to see The Nuremberg Trials. As the weeks went by, he played her records of Hitler's marching songs and encouraged her to read some of his favourite books - Mein Kampf, and Crime and Punishment, and de Sade's works.
Hindley happily complied. She had waited for so long for something different and now here it was. Her inexperience and hunger left her incapable of distinguishing which of her new experiences were healthy and those that were dangerous. Brady became her first lover and she was soon totally besotted with him, soaking up all of his distorted philosophical theories. Her greatest desire was to please him. She even changed the way she dressed for him, in Germanic style, with long boots and mini skirts, and bleached hair.
She allowed him to take pornographic photographs of her, and the two of them having sex. With such a devoted audience, Brady's ideas became increasingly paranoid and outrageous, but Hindley was without discernment. When he told her there was no God, she stopped going to church, and when he told her that rape and murder were not wrong, that in fact murder was the "supreme pleasure," she did not question it. Her personality had become totally fused with his. Family, friends and colleagues quickly noticed the changes in her.
At work she became surly, overbearing, and aggressive, and began to wear "kinky" clothes. Her sister Maureen testified in court that, after meeting Brady, Myra no longer lived a normal life with dances and girlfriends, instead she became secretive and claimed she hated babies, children and people. Early in , Brady put Hindley's blind acceptance of his ideas to the test. He began planning a bank robbery and needed her to be his get-away driver. Immediately, Hindley began driving lessons, joined the Cheadle Rifle club and purchased two guns.
The robbery was never carried out, but Brady's purpose had been fulfilled. Myra had shown herself willing. Brady knew she was ready to cement their relationship.
In Brady's mind he was like Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment, he had "reached the stage where, whatever came to mind, get out and do it. I led the life that other people could only think about. Without A Trace. Pauline Reade was on her way to a dance at the Railway Workers' Social Club on the night she disappeared.
Originally, she had planned to go with her three girlfriends, Linda, Barbara, and Pat, but at the last minute, when their parents learned that there would be alcohol available, they pulled out. Determined not to miss out on the dance, Pauline decided to go alone. At eight o'clock Pauline, dressed in her prettiest pink party dress, left home. What Pauline didn't know was that her girlfriend, Pat, and another friend Dorothy had seen her leave. Curious to see whether she would really have the nerve to go to the dance alone, Pat and Dorothy followed her.
When they were almost at the Club, the two girls decided to take a short cut so they could arrive at the club before Pauline. They waited for her but she never arrived. When Pauline had still not arrived home at midnight, her parents, Joan and Amos went out to look for her. They called the police the next morning when the nightlong search had failed to find any trace of their daughter. A police search proved to be just as fruitless.
It seemed that Pauline had simply disappeared. The second child disappeared on 11 November Twelve-year-old John Kilbride and his friend John Ryan had gone to the local cinema for the afternoon. When the film finished at 5 o'clock, they went to the market in Ashton-Under-Lyne to see if they could earn some pocket money helping the stallholders to pack up. John Ryan left John Kilbride standing beside a salvage bin near the carpet dealer's stall to go and catch his bus home.
It was the last time that anyone saw John Kilbride.
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