The Moors Murderers: The Full Story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

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Potter, John Deane (1967), The Monsters Of The Moors: The full account of the Brady-Hindley case, Ballantine Books Longest-serving female prisoner Maria Pearson jailed for Hartlepool murder bids to be released". ITV News. 16 February 2023 . Retrieved 7 May 2023. Convicting the Moors Murderers. The Arrest, Trial and Imprisonment of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley" by Chris Cook is a very harrowing book. It shows true cruelty. Literally pure evil. I couldn't read it in one day. The book contains photographs.

Smith, Ian (20 December 1986). "Witness helps in search of moors". The Times. No.62646. p.3 – via find.galegroup.com. (subscription required) In 1972, Smith was acquitted of the murder of his father, who had been suffering from terminal cancer. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to two days' detention. [243] He remarried and moved to Lincolnshire with his three sons, [231] [244] and was exonerated of any participation in the Moors murders by Hindley's confession in 1987. In 2011, he co-authored the book Witness with biographer Carol Ann Lee. [245] Smith died from cancer in Ireland in 2012. [246] [247] Goodman, Jonathan (1973), Trial of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady: The Moors Case, David & Charles, ISBN 0-7153-5663-1 Keightley, Alan (2017), Ian Brady: The Untold Story of the Moors Murders, Pavilion Books, ISBN 978-1861057549 The woman seemed no different to others I’d met while out begging with my brothers and sisters,” recalls Tommy, now 61. Some felt so sorry for us they took us into their homes and fed us before sending us on our way with the odd copper or two. So I set off with this kind lady, drooling at the thought of some bread and jam.The murders were the result of what Malcolm MacCulloch, professor of forensic psychiatry at Cardiff University, described as a "concatenation of circumstances". [2] The trial judge, Justice Fenton Atkinson, described Brady and Hindley in his closing remarks as "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity". [3] Their crimes were the subject of extensive worldwide media coverage.

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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] 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.

I was blown away by the information in this book. The pictures included throughout were also extremely interesting and I was again surprised to see how much Brady and Hindley had changed in their appearance during their long imprisonment. NetGalley, Charlie Medcalf Using statements from witnesses, inmates, and prison staff, Cook chronicles the lives of Brady and Hindley after their convictions for their heinous crimes, as well as the affects the murders had on the victims' and criminals' families. I love true crime. I find it really fascinating, especially the darker areas of true crime like the Moors Murderers. How The Chester Chronicle covered the infamous Moors Murders trial", Chester Chronicle, 20 April 2016 , retrieved 19 September 2019On 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] Moors Murders: No remains yet found in search for Keith Bennett". BBC News. 1 October 2022 . Retrieved 1 October 2022. Goodman, Jonathan (1986), The Moors Murders: The Trial of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, David & Charles, ISBN 978-1-85813-539-7 Stanley, Alessandra (16 February 2007), "Longford – TV – Review", The New York Times , retrieved 17 June 2017