The two talked about society, the distribution of wealth, and the possibility of robbing a bank. She divorced Smith in 1973,[235] and married a lorry driver, Bill Scott, with whom she had a daughter. Ian Brady was a Scottish serial killer who murdered multiple children with his girlfriend, Myra Hindley. The two remained in sporadic contact for several months,[205] but Hindley had fallen in love with one of her prison warders, Patricia Cairns. March 3, 2023 2:01am. [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. [55] On the same day, Lesley Ann Downey disappeared from a funfair in Ancoats. Please, Miss Hindley, help me. 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. [177] The November 2007 death of John Straffen, who had spent 55 years in prison for murdering three children, meant that Brady became the longest-serving prisoner in England and Wales. A huge search was undertaken, with over 700statements taken, and 500"missing" posters printed. [256] In October 2018 her remains were re-buried at her grave in Gorton Cemetery, Manchester. Amidst strong media interest Lord Longford pleaded for her release, writing that continuing her detention to satisfy "mob emotion" was not right. A number of authors stated that as a child he tortured animals, although Brady objected to these accusations. "[139], On 19 December, David Smith, then 38, spent about four hours on the moor helping police identify additional areas to be searched. 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. (1942-2002) Who Was Myra Hindley? Keith Bennett Brady took their family name and became known as Ian Sloan. 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Secretary of State For The Home Department, Ex Parte Hindley", "Myra Hindley, the Moors monster, dies after 36 years in jail", "I have no compassion for her. [194] In 2006 officials intercepted 50paracetamol pills hidden inside a hollowed-out crime novel sent to Brady by a female friend. [39] They also read works by the Marquis de Sade, Friedrich Nietzsche[39] and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. 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. Myra Hindley was born on the 23rd of July, 1942. She took up a collection for a wreath; his funeral was held at St Francis's Monastery in Gorton Lane. The marriage was hastily arranged and performed at a register office. 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. Even on her death bed, Hindley refused to give . Characterised by the press as "the most evil woman in Britain",[1] Hindley made several appeals against her life sentence, claiming she was a reformed woman and no longer a danger to society, but was never released. 1 Comments. Before the trial, the News of the World newspaper offered 1,000 to Smith for the rights to his story; the American People magazine made a competing offer of 6,000 (equivalent to about 20,000 and 120,000 respectively in 2021). [35], In 1985, Brady allegedly told Fred Harrison, a journalist working for The Sunday People, that he had killed Reade and Bennett,[126] something the police already suspected as both lived near Brady and Hindley and had disappeared at about the same time as Kilbride and Downey. [36] In her 30,000-word plea for parole, written in 1978 and 1979 and submitted to Home Secretary Merlyn Rees, Hindley said:.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, Within months he [Brady] had convinced me that there was no God at all: he could have told me that the earth was flat, the moon was made of green cheese and the sun rose in the west, I would have believed him, such was his power of persuasion. GMP apologised to the Reade family. [201] He was cremated without a ceremony, and his ashes disposed of at sea during the night. [209] In February 1985, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told Brittan that his proposed minimum sentences of thirty years for Hindley and forty years for Brady were too short, saying, "I do not think that either of these prisoners should ever be released from custody. The 14-year-old girl had suffered a turbulent childhood. [15], In January 1959, Brady applied for, and was offered, a clerical job at Millwards, a wholesale chemical distribution company based in Gorton. At first, Smith refused to name the newspaper, risking contempt of court; when he eventually identified the News of the World, Jones, as Attorney General, immediately promised an investigation. [14], In 2003, the police launched Operation Maida, and again searched the moor for Bennett's body,[161] this time using sophisticated resources such as a US reconnaissance satellite which could detect soil disturbances. [128] Jennifer Tighe, a 14-year-old girl who disappeared from an Oldham children's home in December 1964, was mentioned in the press some forty years later but was confirmed by police to be alive. Myra Hindley was an English serial killer. The excursion caused a furore in the national press and earned Wing an official rebuke from the then-Home Secretary Robert Carr. En route he suggested another detour, this time to search for a glove Hindley had lost on the moor. [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. Brady was an amazing individual with a lawbreaker background, which she knew. The four victims had . 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. [24] Hindley's father had insisted she have a Catholic baptism, and her mother agreed, on the condition that she not be sent to a Catholic school; Nellie Hindley believed that "all the monks taught was the catechism". I deserved it. [109], Brady and Hindley were charged with murdering Evans, Downey and Kilbride. [134] She showed particular interest in photos of the area around Hollin Brown Knoll and Shiny Brook, but said that it was impossible to be sure of the locations without visiting the moor. According to Wilson, "it was because these attempts to express remorse were thrown back at him that he began to contemplate suicide". [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. The story tells a fictionalised account of the Leopold and Loeb case, two young men from well-to-do families who attempt to commit the perfect murder of a 12-year-old boy, and who escape the death penalty because of their age. 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. Ian Brady, who had been . [232] During the trial, Maureeneight months pregnantwas attacked in the lift of the building in which she and Smith lived. Almost 20 years after being sent to prison, he confessed to killing two more. Born on July 23, 1942, in Manchester, England, Hindley grew up with her grandmother. The following morning Brady and Hindley drove Downey's body to Saddleworth Moor,[74] and buried hernaked with her clothes at her feetin a shallow grave.[75]. British criminal and perpetrator of the infamous "Moors murders". [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. Hindley plead not guilty to all of the murders. [97], Also among the photographs in the suitcase were a number of scenes of the moors. [187][189], Myra gets the potentially fatal brain condition, whilst I have to fight simply to die. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. Site contains certain content that is owned A&E Television Networks, LLC. [223] She had been diagnosed with angina in 1999 and hospitalised after suffering a brain aneurysm. When police asked for the key to the locked spare bedroom, she said it was at her workplace; but after police offered to take her to retrieve it, Brady told her to hand it over. 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. Instead, the pair took them to Saddleworth Moor, an isolated area some 15 miles outside of Manchester. [108] Other elaborate security precautions included a public address system costing 2,500 and 500 worth of telephone equipment. Their home was vandalised, they regularly received hate mail, and Maureen wrote that she could not let her children out of her sight when they were small. [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". [81], After the murder of Evans, Smith agreed to return the following morning with his baby's pram, to transport the body to the car, before disposing of it on the moor. He was lying with his head and shoulders on the couch and his legs were on the floor. [248], Reade's mother was admitted to Springfield Mental Hospital in Manchester. She also asked to join a pistol club, but she was a poor shot and allegedly often bad-tempered, so Clitheroe told her that she was unsuitable; she did though manage to purchase a Webley .45 and a Smith & Wesson .38 from other members of the club. 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[165] In 2012, it was claimed that Brady may have given details of the location of Bennett's body to a visitor; a woman was subsequently arrested on suspicion of preventing the burial of a body without lawful excuse, but a few months later the Crown Prosecution Service announced that there was insufficient evidence to press charges. She claimed that, had Johnson written to her fourteen years earlier, she would have confessed and helped the police. [261] Given Hindley's status as co-defendant in the first serial murder trial held since the abolition of the death penalty,[262] retribution was a common theme among those who sought to keep her locked away. She became a long-running source of material for the press, which printed embellished tales of her "cushy" life at the "5-star" Cookham Wood Prison and her liaisons with prison staff and other inmates. Jones decided not to charge the News of the World on similar grounds. When the signal came, Smith knocked on the door and was met by Brady, who asked if he had come for "the miniature wine bottles",[76] and left him in the kitchen saying that he was going to collect the wine. [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. In July 1963, they claimed their first victim, Pauline Reade. [79], Smith then watched Brady throttle Evans with a length of electrical cord. 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. 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. [195], The mother of the remaining undiscovered victim, Keith Bennett, received a letter from Brady at the end of 2005 in which, she said, he claimed that he could take police to within 20 yards (18m) of her son's body but the authorities would not allow it. [207] With help from Cairns, and the outside contacts of another prisoner, Maxine Croft, Hindley planned a prison escape, but it was thwarted when impressions of the prison keys were intercepted by an off-duty policeman. In partnership with Ian Brady, she committed the rapes and murders of five small children. [230], David Smith became "reviled by the people of Manchester"[231] for financially profiting from the murders. [117], Both Brady and Hindley entered pleas of not guilty;[118] Brady testified for over eight hours, Hindley for six. [48], By June 1963, Brady had moved in with Hindley at her grandmother's house in Bannock Street, and on 12 July, the two murdered their first victim, Pauline Reade, who had attended school with Hindley's younger sister Maureen, and had also been in a short relationship with David Smith, a local boy with three criminal convictions for minor crimes. By 2 December, Brady had been charged with the murders of Kilbride, Downey and Evans. None of Maureen's relatives attended. [30] In 2008 Hindley's solicitor, Andrew McCooey, reported that she told him: I ought to have been hanged. Some commentators expressed the view that of the two, Hindley was the "more evil". [106] Hindley wrote to her mother: I feel as though my heart's been torn to pieces. [110] The Attorney General, Sir Elwyn Jones, led the prosecution, assisted by William Mars-Jones. [233] After declining to prosecute the News of the World, Attorney General Sir Elwyn Jones came under political pressure to impose new regulations on the press, but was reluctant to legislate on "chequebook journalism". [84] Hindley denied there had been any violence, and allowed police to look around the house. [13] He was sent to Latchmere House in London,[12] and then Hatfield borstal in the West Riding of Yorkshire. [159][160] Hindley told Topping that she knew nothing of these killings. [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. Brady was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and locked up in a Ashworth secure mental hospital, on Merseyside. I have always regarded myself as worse than Brady. [227] Four months later, her ashes were scattered by her ex-partner, Patricia Cairns, less than 10 miles (16km) from Saddleworth Moor in Stalybridge Country Park. Then I heard Myra shout, "Dave, help him," very loud. Brady was diagnosed as a psychopath in 1985 and confined in the high-security Ashworth Hospital. [14] Released on 14 November 1957, Brady returned to Manchester, where he took a labouring job which he hated, and was dismissed from another job in a brewery. Despite dating other people, Brady was always the man she wanted to be with, so the fascination was incredible. "[85], Though Hindley was not initially arrested, she demanded to go with Brady to the police station, taking her dog. In 1982, the Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane said of Brady: "this is the case if ever there is to be one when a man should stay in prison till he dies". When Myra was young, her father beat her up regularly, but he also trained her how to battle. The only consolation is that some moron might have got hold of Puppet and hurt him. [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. Hindley began to emulate an ideal of Aryan perfection, bleaching her hair blonde and applying thick crimson lipstick. She said that she saw no possibility of release, and also exonerated Smith from any part in the murders other than that of Evans. He was facing upwards. 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. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were another ruthless predator couple who preyed on the weakest - children. In Brady's account, Hindley was not only present for the attack, but participated in the sexual assault. 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. After being discovered drunk on alcohol he had brewed, he was moved to the much tougher unit in Hull. Myra Hindley died in 2002. Myra Hindley did not have a child at the time. [213] Then Home Secretary David Waddington imposed a whole life tariff on Hindley in July 1990, after she confessed to having been more involved in the murders than she had admitted. Here John had been sexually assaulted and strangled, before being buried in the moors. [121], The sixteen-minute tape recording[97][c] of Downey, on which the voices of Brady and Hindley were audible, was played in open court. [245] Smith died from cancer in Ireland in 2012. I heard the blow, it was a terrible hard blow, it sounded horrible. In 1966 both Hindley and Brady were jailed for life for the murders, Ian Brady died in 2017 at the age of 79 but Myra died much earlier back in 2002. [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. She stayed overnight in Manchester, at the flat of the police chief in charge of GMP training at Sedgley Park, Prestwich, and visited the moor twice. [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. As a child, she lived with Nellie Hindley in a little two-up, two-down semi-detached house. Hindley had difficulty connecting what she saw to her memories, and was apparently nervous of the helicopters flying overhead. [86] She refused to make any statement about Evans's death beyond claiming it had been an accident, and was allowed to go home on the condition that she return the next day. [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. The victims were children between the ages of 10 and 17, boys and girls. View this post on Instagram A post shared by I Could Murder A Podcast (@couldmurderapod) Four months later, 12-year-old John Kilbride disappeared, never to be seen again. Biography and associated logos are trademarks of A+E Networksprotected in the US and other countries around the globe. "Suffer Little Children" is a song by the English rock band the . [149], Over the next few months interest in the search waned, but Hindley's clue had focused efforts on a specific area. [66], Once Reade was in the van, Hindley asked her to help in searching Saddleworth Moor for an expensive lost glove; Reade agreed and they drove there. [44] Brady and Hindley's plans for robbery came to nothing, but they became interested in photography. Various authors have stated that he tortured animals, although Brady objected to such accusations. Ian was standing over him, facing him, with his legs on either side of the young lad's legs. 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. She was 60. Bookmark. 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. He made it clear that he never wished to be released and repeatedly asked to be allowed to die. After a few minutes Brady reappeared in the company of 17-year-old Edward Evans, an apprentice engineer who lived in Ardwick, to whom he introduced Hindley as his sister. [249] Five years after their son was murdered, Sheila and Patrick Kilbride divorced. [138] Police closed all roads onto the moor, which was patrolled by 200 officers, some armed. But that would be to underestimate the astonishing depths of depravity depicted within, acts said to have inspired the unthinkable crimes of Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Hindley did not approve of the marriage, and her mother was too embarrassed as Maureen was seven months pregnant. Her father was an alcoholic who was frequently violent towards his wife and children. 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. [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. Hindley's 17-year-old brother-in-law tipped off the police about her crimes. 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. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to two days' detention. It would never have been possible to carry out such a search in private. She was only a toddler when her young mother, Mary, left home, married again, and began to raise a new family. [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". [204] She corresponded with Brady by letter until 1971, when she ended their relationship. [240] It was a threat repeated by her son Danny. Nine months later, he began working as a butcher's messenger boy. [35] She expressed concern at some aspects of Brady's character; in a letter to a childhood friend, she mentioned an incident where she had been drugged by Brady, but also wrote of her obsession with him. 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. Bennett's body is also thought to be buried there, but despite repeated searches it remains undiscovered. [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. [32] (Many sources state that the film was Judgment at Nuremberg, but Hindley recalled it as King of Kings. She was in the car, over the brow of the hill, in the bathroom and even, in the case of the Evans murder, in the kitchen"; he felt he "had witnessed a great performance rather than a genuine confession". Myra Hindley was born in England. She ran errands, typed, made tea, and was well liked enough that when she lost her first week's wage packet, the other girls took up a collection to replace it. [198], After receiving end-of-life care, Brady died of restrictive pulmonary disease at Ashworth Hospital on 15 May 2017;[199] the inquest found that he died of natural causes and that his hunger strike had not been a contributory factor. The family home was in poor condition and Hindley was forced to sleep in a single bed next to her parents' double bed. Myra Hindley was a serial killer of small children, murders she committed in partnership with boyfriend Ian Brady. Brady later claimed that he had picked up Evans for a sexual encounter. 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Murders in and around Manchester, England, "The Moors Murderers" redirects here. Photo: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images, Idaho Murders: What Led Police to Bryan Kohberger, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads, Name: Myra Hindley, Birth Year: 1942, Birth date: July 23, 1942, Birth City: Manchester, Birth Country: England. [54], Early on Boxing Day 1964, Hindley left her grandmother at a relative's house and refused to allow her back to Wardle Brook Avenue that night.
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