True Crime Friday: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, the Moors Murders serial killers
The Moors Murders were carried out by a killer couple named Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Their crimes are so despicable that they are hated in England to this very day. Their crimes were committed against children. They filmed and recorded their victims begging and pleading for their mothers. That seemed to only bring more pleasure to the torturers. The case was disturbing and many of the jurors had to have therapy after listing to the kids crying and screaming in pain while their murderers told them to shut up. Some of the jurors are still in therapy. Their reign of terror was between July 1963 and October 1965.
The Early Childhood of Ian Brady.
Ian Brady was born January of 1938 to a single mother named Margaret Stewart. Not much is known about his biological father. His father supposedly was the writer for a local newspaper and died three months before Ian was born. His mother had little support which forced her son into the care of Mary and John Sloan, a local couple with four children of their own. Ian took the family name and became known as Ian Sloan, he later in life went back to his surname. His mother continued to visit him throughout his childhood. As with most serial killers in the making, Ian’s mother discovered he had been murdering animals. It was said that Ian bragged of killing his first cat when he was just ten years old, and then went on to burn another cat alive, stone dogs and cut off rabbits' heads. But later, Brady denied that he said those things. He attended a school for gifted children but left at the age of fifteen to work as a tea boy at a shipyard. He began to get into trouble and appeared in juvenile court on at least two occasions. Ian Brady began working as a butcher's messenger boy. Brady had a girlfriend, Evelyn Grant, but their relationship ended when he threatened her with a knife.The Early Childhood of Myra Hindley
Myra Hindley seemed to have a normal childhood for a while. She was born on July 23, 1942, to parents Nellie and Bob Hindley. Bob was an aircraft fitter in the war and was not around at Myra’s birth or for the first few years of her childhood. Nellie was a laborer and worked hard to provide for her infant daughter. Myra was often left with her grandmother while her parents worked to take care of the family.Nellie fell pregnant again and eventually gave birth to a second daughter. Maureen Hindley was born in August 1946. By that time things had grown tense between Myra’s parents. Her father became an alcoholic and abused his wife on a regular basis. Ellen, the grandmother, decided that Myra should live with her permanently since the two of them already had a good relationship and the parents agreed. Myra went to live with Ellen who lived across the street from her parents. They all still met for lunch and dinner, so she saw her parents daily.
The Victims of the Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
- Pauline Reade
- John Kilbride
- Keith Bennett
- Lesley Ann Downey
- Edward Evans
Lady Justice
The couple was finally caught after Ian decided to invite Myra’s brother-in-law to a kill. The brother-in-law after witnessing Ian torture and kill a young man in his home was horrified and once he left their home he along with his wife called the police. Brady and Hindley were charged only for the murders of Kilbride, Downey and Evans. The investigation was reopened in 1985 after Brady was reported as having confessed to the murders of Reade and Bennett. Although Brady confessed right away to the murders Hindley did not. She claimed her innocence for years.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. Hindley and Brady both died in prison. Myra died in 2002 at the age of sixty. Ian Brady died in 2017 at the age of seventy-nine. To this day the body of Keith Bennett has never been found, His mother begged both Hindley and Brady to let her and the police know where her son was buried to no avail.