Ian Brady
Ian Brady
Ian Brady
Ian Brady
Ian Brady
Ian Brady
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley during
their time as active killers.
Ian Brady, Myra Hindley (left) and a friend.
A photo of Myra Hindley taken by
Ian Brady.
Myra Hindley mugshot
October 22, 1965 - Ian Brady in police custody prior to his court
appearance
for the Moors Murders
for which he was later convicted.
(Photo
by William H Alden/Getty Images)
22nd November 1965: Convicted murderer, Ian Brady under guard in
a police car.
(Photo by William H. Alden/Evening Standard/Getty
Images)
6th May 1966: Moors Murderer Ian Brady being taken to court in a
car.
(Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
7th May 1966 - A Police van leaves Chester Crown Court carrying
the Moors Murder Suspects,
Ian
Brady and Myra Hindley after the jury
had retired to consider it's verdict
(Photo by Bentley Archive/Popperfoto/Getty
Images)
Police in 1965 searching for further evidence near Greenfield,
England, where murder victim
Lesley
Downey was found. In 1966 Myra
Hindley and Ian Brady were convicted of killing
three children
on
the Pennine Moors.
October 22, 1965 - Greenfield, England: Searchers scour the moors
looking for graves after reports
were received by police of bodies
buried in the area. The body of a young girl was recovered that
day
and police have charged a 27-year-old stock clerk, Ian Brady, and a
shorthand typist,
Myra Hindley, 23, with the murder.
May 6, 1966 - Chester, England: Ian Brady (left) and his blonde
mistress, Myra Hindley,
were found guilty
May 6 of murder, in
the sensational "Bodies of the Moor" trial.
Both were sentenced to
life imprisonment.
Ian Brady
Ian Brady
Moors Killings
Brady was responsible for the murders
of five children during the 1960s. In August 1987 he claimed
to police
that he had carried out another five killings and even said where he had
buried the bodies,
but the police were never able to prove whether these
claims were true.
The five murders that Brady admitted
carrying out were committed with Myra Hindley as his accomplice.
These were
the infamous Moors Murders, which are still some of the most reviled
crimes in Britain
decades after they happened. As a result, Brady and
Hindley became two of the most hated
individuals in British criminal
history.
On July 12, 1963, the couple claimed
their first victim. 16-year-old Pauline Reade was enticed into
Hindley's minivan while Brady followed behind on his motorcycle. They
drove up to Saddleworth
Moor where Hindley asked Pauline to help her
look for a lost glove. They were busy "searching
the moors" when Brady
pounced upon Pauline and raped her. He then smashed her skull in with
a
shovel and slashed her throat so violently that she was almost
decapitated. Brady then buried
Pauline's body on the moor, where it
remained for over 20 years.
On November 23, Hindley lured
12-year-old John Kilbride into her car from a market place in
Ashton-under-Lyne, and drove him to Saddleworth Moor. Brady was waiting
there and ordered
Hindley to wait for him in a nearby village in their
hired Ford Anglia. While Hindley waited in
her car, Brady attempted to
stab the boy with a knife, but the weapon was too blunt. Brady lost
his
temper and strangled him to death with a string before burying his body
in a shallow grave.
On June 16, 1964 their third victim
was another 12-year-old boy, Keith Bennett, whom they
enticed
from a street in Chorlton and drove to Saddleworth Moor. Hindley stood
and watched
from the top of an embankment while Brady sexually assaulted
Keith in a ravine before
strangling him to death with a piece of string
and burying his body. It has never been found.
The fourth victim, 10-year-old
Lesley Ann Downey, was lured from a fairground in Ancoats.
Brady
took nine obscene photographs of her, showing her naked, bound and
gagged (which
were later found in a suitcase in a left luggage locker).
Hindley recorded the scene of the
child's rape and torture by Brady on
audio tape. The tape clearly records the voices of Brady,
Hindley and
the child, who is heard to scream and protest and asks to be allowed to
go
home and plead for her life. It is believed she was killed by Brady.
The following morning,
Brady and Hindley drove Lesley's body to
Saddleworth Moor where it was buried
in a shallow grave.
On October 6, 1965, the couple
claimed their fifth and final victim, 17-year-old Edward Evans.
They enticed him from Manchester Central Railway Station to their house
in Hattersley, where
Hindley's 18-year-old brother-in-law David Smith
was visiting. Brady then crept up on Edward
in the kitchen and smashed
his head in with an axe. He ordered Smith to help him carry the
corpse to an upstairs bedroom and tie it up ready for disposal, but Smith then
ran home and
contacted the police. Smith explained later that, while
apparently giving assistance to
cleaning up, his sole concern was to
escape the house alive.
