[34] Brady then gave her reading material and the pair spent their work lunch breaks reading aloud to one another from accounts of Nazi atrocities. [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. 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. They drove to Brady and Hindley's home at Wardle Brook Avenue, where they relaxed over a bottle of wine. The murders were the result of what Malcolm MacCulloch, professor of forensic psychiatry at Cardiff University, described as a "concatenation of circumstances". Myra Hindley was a serial killer of small children, murders she committed in partnership with boyfriend Ian Brady. The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. [230], David Smith became "reviled by the people of Manchester"[231] for financially profiting from the murders. I have always regarded myself as worse than Brady. [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. [84] Hindley denied there had been any violence, and allowed police to look around the house. [190] In the book, Brady recounted his friendship in prison with the "teacup poisoner" Graham Young, who shared Brady's admiration for Nazi Germany. [79], Smith then watched Brady throttle Evans with a length of electrical cord. Brady and Hindley suggested they take a detour to the Moors, because they needed help looking for a lost glove. The pair took photographs of each other that, for the time, would have been considered explicit. Detectives searched under the floorboards of the Johnsons' house, and on discovering that the houses in the row were connected, extended the search to the entire street. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) reopened the investigation, now to be headed by Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Topping, head of GMP's Criminal Investigation Department (CID). [31] Over the next few months she continued to make entries, but grew increasingly disillusioned with him, until 22 December when Brady asked her on a date to the cinema. This was the first time Brady and Smith had met properly, and Brady was apparently impressed by Smith's demeanour. Murders in and around Manchester, England, "The Moors Murderers" redirects here. CNN.com - Myra Hindley: An icon of evil - Nov. 15, 2002 [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. Over a period of 18 months in the 1960s, Brady and his accomplice, Myra Hindley, kidnapped and murdered five children in north-west England. In June 1964, 12-year-old Keith Bennett followed. The monastery where, as an infant in 1942, Hindley had been baptised a Catholic, had a lasting effect on her. When I ran in I just stood inside the living room and I saw a young lad. March 3, 2023 2:01am. Hindley, along with her boyfriend Ian Brady . Ian was born in Glasgow, Scotland on January 2, 1938. In February 1964, she bought a second-hand Austin Traveller, but soon after traded it for a Mini van.