However you feel regarding Brady and Hindley, this is a further fascinating insight into their characters and also on the continuing search for Keith Bennett. Topping, Peter (1989), Topping: The Autobiography of the Police Chief in the Moors Murder Case, Angus & Robertson, ISBN 978-0-207-16480-4 The investigating officers suspected Brady and Hindley of murdering other missing children and teenagers who had disappeared from areas in and around Manchester over the previous few years, and the search for more bodies continued for a while after the discovery of John Kilbride's body, but with winter setting in it was called off in November. Various newspapers were also keen to name possible further victims of the "Moors Murders", with Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett being two of them. [101] Young, Alison (2005), Judging the Image: Art, Value, Law, Routledge, doi: 10.4324/9780203643747, ISBN 978-0-415-30184-8 Brady chooses to remain alone", The Times, no.56656, Times Digital Archive, 13 June 1966, p.1 , retrieved 25 September 2009

The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. The victims were five children—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey, and Edward Evans—aged between 10 and 17, at least four of whom were sexually assaulted. 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. Bennett's body is also thought to be buried there, but despite repeated searches it remains undiscovered. Both Brady and Hindley entered pleas of not guilty; [118] Brady testified for over eight hours, Hindley for six. [119] Brady admitted to striking Evans with the axe, but claimed that someone else had killed Evans, pointing to the pathologist's statement that his death had been "accelerated by strangulation"; Brady's "calm, undisguised arrogance did not endear him to the jury [and] neither did his pedantry", wrote Duncan Staff. [120] Hindley denied any knowledge that the photographs of Saddleworth Moor found by police had been taken near the graves of their victims. [121] On 6 May, after having deliberated for a little over two hours, [123] the jury found Brady guilty of all three murders, and Hindley guilty of the murders of Downey and Evans. As the death penalty for murder had been abolished six months earlier, the judge passed the only sentence that the law now allowed for murder: life imprisonment. 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] Brady was taken to HM Prison Durham and Hindley was sent to HM Prison Holloway. [121] Nevertheless, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley didn’t confess to the murder of Reade (and Bennett) until 1985.

Making Murderers: Myra Hindley And Ian Brady Before The Moors Murders

I went through so many stages of thought process, the brother in law was involved, no he wasn’t, Myra was an abused unwilling participant, no she wasn’t, Myra was genuinely sorry, no she wasn’t, Brady wasn’t the only highly manipulative person, there has to be more victims, no there isn’t. Myra Hindley spent her life in prison. She never received parole, though she always maintained that she did not kill Lesley Anne Downey. Little Tommy Rhattigan sat alone on a park swing on a dark, wet, Manchester evening in 1963, his belly, as usual, rumbling with hunger. I knew the difference between right and wrong… I didn’t have a compulsion to kill… I wasn’t in charge… but in some ways I was more culpable because I knew better.” Birch, Helen, ed. (1994), Moving Targets: Women, Murder, and Representation, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-08574-9

Tommy was waiting for his brother and sister in a park when she and Brady spotted him. He recalls: “The woman reminded me of my eldest sister Rosemary. Since Brady and Hindley's arrests, newspapers had been keen to connect them to other missing children and teenagers from the area. One such victim was Stephen Jennings, a three-year-old West Yorkshire boy who was last seen alive in December 1962; his body was found buried in a field in 1988, but the following year his father, William Jennings, was found guilty of his murder. [126] 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. [127] This followed claims in 2004 that Hindley had told another inmate that she and Brady had murdered a sixth victim, a teenage girl. [128]The trial was held over 14 days beginning on 19 April 1966, in front of Mr Justice Fenton Atkinson. Sapsted, David; Bunyan, Nigel (16 November 2002), "Myra Hindley, the Moors monster, dies after 36 years in jail", The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 11 January 2022 , retrieved 20 September 2018 In April 1987, news of Hindley's confession became public. Amidst strong media interest Lord Longford pleaded for her release, writing that continuing her detention to satisfy "mob emotion" was not right. 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. She said that she saw no possibility of release, and also exonerated Smith from any part in the murders other than that of Evans. [149] Saddleworth Moor showing where three of the victims' bodies were found, and the general area searched for the body of Keith Bennett