The chilling truth behind the Moors Murders trial (Part 3/3) | Forensic Files

a recap of part 2 Brady and Hindley continued their killing spree murdering Keith Bennett on the 16th of June 1964
seven months after the murder of John kilbride two months later English sister Maureen married David Smith's Brady in
Hindley had virtually nothing to do with David and Maureen prior to their marriage and Hindley in particular
didn't approve but after the marriage they became close Brady and Hindley murdered Leslie and Downey on the 26th
of December 1964 Brady tape recorded some of what happened and took photographs after the death of David and
Maureen's child Angela thorne Brady became even closer to David slowly trying to manipulate him and bring him
into his inner sanctum he gave David the same books to read that he had given Hindley and started talking about murder
and how there was nothing wrong with taking a life Hindley became jealous of their friendship and worried that Brady
was getting careless and revealing too much information to David Brady eventually revealed to David he had
killed before but David didn't believe him on the 6th of October 1965 Brady met Edward Evans at Manchester central
railway station he invited him to his in Hindley's house at sixteen Waddle Brook
Avenue Hattersley for drinks when they got there instructed Hindley to go get David to
join them when David got to the house he witnessed Brady murder Edward with an axe
after months of molding David this was Brady's attempt to try and get him to join him in murder David helped clean up
and told Brady and Hindley what they wanted to hear but it all blow up in Brady's face when David called the
police and they found Edward's body still in the house Brady had always planned to shootout with police but it
was caught off-guard Brady was sitting on the sofa writing a letter to his boss when the police turned up his in English
guns were locked away upstairs Brady claims he and Edward into a fight and he killed him in
self-defense even though Edward had been hit with the axe 14 times Brady was charged with his murder and Hindley was
charged with being an accessory to Edwards murder in his interviews with police David Smith said Brady had told
him about other murders he had committed although David didn't believe him at the
time he said Brady specifically mentioned taking people from Manchester and burying them on the moors police
started searching through missing persons files in the cases of Pauline Reade Keith Bennett Leslie and Danny and
john Kilbride jumped out of them detective Joseph commander you noticed some odd looking photographs in the
albums of Brady and Hindley there were photos of mostly dirt he believed were taken on the moors a search was
organized and they tried to match the photos to the specific places that were taken on the moors
not an easy task considering the Moors covers an area of 400 square miles Brady and Hindley kept there hard exteriors
showing no remorse for Edward and refusing to tell the police anything about the other cases Brady and
Hindley's 11-year old neighbor paddy Masterton was able to help police narrow their search on the moors she pointed
out a spot Brady and Hindley always took her to man Z noticed that the black rocks in that area matched the rocks in
some of the photos a gut instinct led officer Roberts fished the search up on a hill where he found the body of Lesley
Ann Tierney police had also found the suitcases Brady kept with incriminated material they found photos of Lesley and
a tape they were getting ready to re-interview Brady and Hindley about Leslie and Donny
[Music] on the morning of Monday October 18th 1965 Brady and Hindley appeared separately at the Magistrates Court for
a remand hearing in relation to the Edward Evans case Brady appeared first wearing his suit it
already been charged with Edwards murder so he was remanded for another three days as Hindley was arriving to the
court she was advised to put a scarf over her head she didn't understand why until she exited the van and was
confronted by an angry crowd yelling and screaming at her she was formally charged with well knowing Brady had
murdered Edward and subsequently received comforted Harvard assisted and maintained him afterwards they met back
at Hyde police stations canteen where they saw Brady's solicitor who discussed their defense while they were together
Hindley reminded Brady how much she loved him and he told her he loved her too at 2:30 p.m. Brady was taken to an
interview room by himself Detective Chief Superintendent Arthur Benfield and superintendent
Robert Terrell stormed into the room and through Leslie and Downey's socks shoes
and necklace beads on the table Benfield said these garments were recovered from
the more near Greenfield late Saturday night this clothing has been identified as Lesley and Downey's
whose body was recovered at the same time and place I have reason to believe that the photographs of the naked girl
which were found in your suitcase are of Lesley and Downey would you like to say
anything about these photographs Brady not at present Benfield I'd like you near to listen to a tape recording Brady
I know the tape while it was playing Brady bowed his head and covered his face with his hands until it finished
once it was over Ben field said you say you know the tape the voices appear to be those of yourself and the Myra enter
Leslie and Donny Brady she didn't say the name D&E it was something else Benfield and Talbot was surprised at the
admission however it was cut short when Brady said he did photograph Leslie but it was two other men who had brought her
to the house when the photos were done the two men left with Leslie and he never saw her again
the interview ended at 8:05 p.m. and Brady refused to sign their position notes been filled and Talbot moved on to
Hindley been filled through the black wig on the table and said what's this Hindley remained silent
been filled through the photographs of Leslie on the table followed by her socks shoes and a necklace Hindley bowed
her head and put her hands against her face just like Brady had then she covered her mouth with a handkerchief
Benfield told her they knew the photos have been taken on Boxing Day the same day Leslie disappeared he told her the
version Brady gave about the two men bringing Leslie to their house in Dooley said I'm saying nothing Ben field played
the tape and Hindley closed her eyes she started crying while it was playing when
it finished the Ben field said did you hear that Hindley I'm ashamed I'm saying nothing the interview ended at 9:45 p.m.
they showed David Smith the photos to David said he now understood what Brady meant by photographic proof and that
just by seeing those pictures he knew there was no way Leslie was ever returning home they also played David
the tape and he broke down crying although they weren't answering many questions and Liam Brady was still
actively blaming David Smith for the murders as a tactic to see if David was perhaps more involved than he was
letting on officers gave Maureen and David's father false stories of David confessing these tactics left both
Maureen and David's father confused and hurt but David Smith stuck to his story and maintained his innocence the one
detective David still felt believed him was Mountie after the discovery of Leslie and Downey's body the coverage of
the case exploded the canteen in hide police station became a press room police gave press conferences daily it
was one of the first cases to get continuous heavy coverage on television at times there were over 200 journalists
of the Moors and the case remained in the newspaper headlines permanently after finding Leslie's body the search
of the Moors continued under mansi's command many people started to come forward stating they'd seen Brady and
Hindley in different parts of Saddleworth Moor Mian Z wanted to check out every single place and see if any
more of them could be linked to the photographs they found Manzi had several of the photos enlarged
the enlargements were then passed on to searching officers to try and help them match the spot on the mall four days
after they found a Leslie's body Mandy's boss called him to his office and said what are you doing buggering about on
the moors come on it's time you got back to work that same day Ben fields said in
a press conference I don't believe there are any more bodies on the moor still Manzi persisted
the Manchester Evening News ran an article that day headlined hundreds flocked to watch more hunt the article
detailed how large amounts of people were visiting the mall and watching the police search some stopped in for a few
minutes others came with flasks and sandwiches and settled in for a picnic a police
officer who was there called it morbid curiosity at its worst back at Hindley in Brady's house at 16
waddle Brook Avenue Detective Chief Inspector John Terrell was going through the bookshelf when he found him Billy's
old prayer book Carney had given her when she was 16 when he flicked through the pages the spine made a small noise
he lifted it up to take a better look and saw that a slip of paper was rolled tightly and pushed into the spine it was
the receipt for the locker for Brady's two suitcases the receipt was for the most recent deposit October 5th 1965 the
day before the murder of Edward Evans Tyrell remembered the disposal plan written by Brady on the three sheets of
paper the disposal plan had code words such as PB and tick which Terrell now knew stood for prayer book and ticket
despite Brady's claims the disposal plan was written after Edwards murder this proved that was written before the next
day Thursday October 21st Brady and Hindley were charged with the murder of Leslie and Downey at Hyde Magistrates
Court when the charges were read out Hindley responded it's not true Brady said not guilty Hindley was provided
with legal aid and they'll both taken back to recently remand Center back at the Moore miyanji court office hermus
header a crime scene officer he told mass headed to bring his camera to the mall and to make sure the press didn't
follow him when mass header arrived miyanji guided him to a spot on the mall and gave him one particular photograph
that studia the photo with Hindley holding puppet crouching down looking at the ground
my auntie told Macedo to look at the spot that was standing in and compare it to the photograph Macedo believed it was
the same place to be certain he took a new photograph and compared it it was identical the two of them were joined by
another detective enter the inspector who had been present when Leslie and Danny was found the inspector pushed his
stick into the ground pulled it out and smelled the end of it it smelled of putrefaction they started
digging and only 9 inches down they found a small black shoe underneath the shoe they found socks and a little
further down they found what appeared to be a human heel Manzi was at first excited but when he crouched down and
started looking closer he became deeply affected by what he was seeing he stood back up and told one of the detectives
to go back to the station and let their supervisor know me as he said tell him we found a John kilbride soon all of the
superiors from the different police jurisdictions appeared pathologists were also called in at 3:30 p.m. pathologist
G and paulsen began to excavate the body the body was 340 meters away from where
Leslie and Danny was found into less than 18 inches below the surface the entire body was so severely decomposed
that both pathologists were careful to dig by the sides trying to keep the remains intact
Manzi was correct it was the body of John killbride John was clothed except for his trousers and underwear which
were knotted together at his back and left the detectives in no doubt as to what had happened John's body was lifted
into a stretcher covered in plastic sheeting and taken to upper mill more tree Paulson and G conducted the
postmortem but were unable to establish a cause of death means he went to see the kill brides and
took the shoe with him John's brother Danny remembered his mother Sheila recognized the shoe as soon as she saw
it danni Kilbride stated quote I was told that he'd been strangled but no more than that I can't say it was a relief
that he'd been found everybody imagines it must have been I know it meant we were able to have a burial and had
somewhere to lay flowers for him but I didn't want my brother to be found dead and I'm positive my mum and dad felt the
same way relief was the last thing any of us felt Sheila was taken to the mortuary to
formally identify John and upon seeing him she said quote they cleaned up as best they could
but I'll never forget it I'd altered his jacket I'd ordered his underwear his father's underwear
because I wasn't rich I couldn't always buy him new I knew it was him the buttons on the jacket footballs but
stitched on myself there was no doubt at all officer Pat Clayton who worked closely with me auntie was standing with
Sheila when she identified John she said quote it was her child that was being identified but there was no child to
identify only clothing it was horrendous that murder and particularly when you see pictures of a woman which she later
learn is a picture of a woman standing over the grave of a child that's just been buried dump like a bag of rubbish
on the moors it's horrific two officers were left in the Moore's to guard the burial site
overnight since two bodies had now been found the search of the Mohr's was allowed to continue Ben field changed
his mind he declared he was now certain there were more bodies in the area Brady
and Hindley's landscape photographs were distributed among local cycling and hiking clubs in the hope they might be
able to help point out specific spots the search itself moved back to Woodhead again where over 100 volunteers went
over the snake' pass which is a spot David Smith had pointed out in the beginning however the weather was
starting to become a problem since there were night Frost's strong winds and thick mists during the day which made it
impossible to see clearly the police concentrated on building a strong case against Brady and Hindley and pieced
together as much evidence as they could one detective was able to match the headboard and marks on the wall in Hindu
with a headboard and marks on the wall that appeared in the photos of Leslie confirming the photos were taken in
Hindley's room a team of experts also proved that the camera used to take the photos of Leslie was a Brady's camera
the forensic team finished with the inspection at 16 Waddle Brook Avenue on October 25th after which they moved on
to David Smith's former home at 13 Wilde Street Gorton where he lived with Maureen and his father the house that
was only a few doors away from Pauline Reed's house they removed the floorboards removed wallpaper and took
samples from every surface they found a blood near a window but David explained it was his blood he
had cut himself while installing a new pane of glass police confirmed this story with Jane Reed Pauline's mother
who was the one who bandaged David's wrist after it happened this occurred only two months after
Pauline disappeared the forensic team then went to 18 Westmoreland Street Brady's former home Brady's mother
Maggie had left and gone to Glasgow to stay with Brady's foster family the Sloane's Maggie suffered a breakdown
when she found out Brady had murdered children the press constantly staking out their home didn't help either
Brady's stepfather Patrick went with police to his former home and assisted their search the forensic team didn't
find anything since Brady had spent most of his time at Hindley's house there was
nothing linking him to the crimes at all at Westmoreland Street on Thursday October 28th Brady and Hindley were
driven to another remand hearing in height magistrate's court it was raining heavily and Hindley was surprised to see
so many angry people waiting for them the outside in the public gallery people shouted shame and monsters among the
gallery were Patrick and Terrance Downey Leslie's father and uncle they were planning on loosening wooden floor
blocks from the court and throwing them at Brady in Hindley however their appearance in the courtroom was only
brief and delet didn't get the chance Tarrant said I would have smashed their heads in if only I could have snatched
that up in time Terrence tried to gain the outside when Brady and Hindley were taken away in a
car he ran towards it and tried to force open the door he was tackled to the ground by police
but little did he know it was the wrong car due to the large angry mobs that were
gathering and of the threats made to Hindley and Brady the police arranged decoys Terrence had been tricked by the
decoys Brady and Hindley was still inside waiting for the crowd to disperse Brady and Hindley weren't the only ones
targeted David and Maureen copped it as well after the court appearance was over
they were chased through the streets after that court appearance Brady and Hindley were taken to Ashton underline
police station for further questioning Nancy and another detective questioned Brady mounts he showed him some of the
landscape photos they found and suggested the Brady there were markers for the burial sites Brady denied it and
said he had no idea what music was talking about Nancy showed him this Pacific photo where they found a John
kill bride's burial site and said this photograph was taken by you showing your girlfriend crowding over John kill
bride's grave how can you possibly say you know nothing about his death Brady kept annoying
in another interview room in Dooley was questioned by Terrell and another detective she was shown the same picture
t'rul said where was that taken in Dooley I don't know Cyril who took it in glee
probably a.m. Terrell what are you looking at in this photo Hindley my dog puppet Terrell you were
looking at the ground Hindley didn't respond Terrell has anyone other than Ian taking pictures of
you at the more Inslee david has Terrell these photos were taken to mark the graves of your victims Hindley no they
just pictures they have no significance whatsoever Terrell told her Maureen had given them a statement saying Hindley
had become a different person after meeting Brady Hindley responded I made all my own
decisions people go through several stages in their lives after discussions they change their minds
Ian never made me do anything I didn't want to do all that about killing is bloody rubbish when asked about John
Kilbride specifically Hindley said Ian didn't kill Kilbride and I didn't kill Kilbride I never set eyes on Kilbride
before Hindley then said David Smith was the one who brought Leslie and Downey to
their house at 16 waddle Brook Avenue he was with another man and after Brady took the photos of Leslie they left with
her the same story Brady had given Hindley claimed David had fabricated a story in the hours after Edward Evans
murder and clean up to paint himself as innocent he then called the police to try and put the blame on her and Brady
the detectives paused the interview and in another attempt to break in Dooley Terrell prepared a special album of
photographs there were regular photos of landscapes on some pages but on others there were pictures of the extreme
bodies of Leslie and John the photos were random so Hindley wouldn't know what was coming the interview started
again and demands he opened the album and turned the pages for him to lead to see after Hindley saw pictures of the
bodies she looked away and said I don't want to see any more but Manzi kept on turning the pages and
moved the album closer to her Hindley ended up shouting take them away I'm not looking at them Manzi started
pacing the room and recited a line from the Bible suffer little children to come
unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of God Hindley had to head down and didn't say
anything at 8:10 p.m. the interview ended eons he tried the same tactic with Brady Brady didn't say much about the
photographs but he did admit taking the photo of Hindley on John's grave he also
confessed the taking the photos of Leslie they found in his suitcase and to landscape photos of where she was buried
he admitted to hitting Edward Evans with an axe 14 times he admitted to writing the disposal plan
and previously telling David Smith he had killed and buried bodies on the mall they had more evidence on Brady than
they had on Hindley ingly didn't say anything so although there was a photograph of her crouching on John's
burial site police couldn't prove she knew there was a body underneath they had her on tape when Leslie's photos
were being taken but the tape didn't prove she was present when Leslie was killed and although she was present at
the murder of Edward Evans and participated in the cleanup Brady admitted to being the one who murdered
him and David Smith's statement supported Brady's claim David Smith was still being interviewed by police
constantly they were looking for cracks in his story trying to break him to see if he knew more than he was letting on
by the end of his interviews police were convinced David Smith was telling the truth reporters were camped outside
David's house trying to get him interview they offered money but he knows early days of the investigation he
refused to talk he got so fed up with the media that he threw [ __ ] at the cars he knew
belonged to reporters the search of the Mohr's continued and Air Force jets with
infrared equipment were used the search was postponed on the 30th of October due
to heavy rain and strong winds and after that day the search started to wind down
police gave out a questionnaire to over 5,000 households in Hattersley asking about suspicious activities in the area
police thought Kingsley's dog puppet to a vet to determine his age they wanted to compare his current age to the age he
was in the photo with Hindley on Johnsbury also a puppet was given an anaesthetic and had his teeth x-rayed
however when the examination was over puppet didn't wake up he suffered from a previous illness that caused his heart
to fail during the anaesthetic when Hindley was informed about puppets death she screamed at the police that they
were murderers on November 4th Brady and Hindley appeared for a last remand hearing the size of the angry crowd
increased with every court appearance and two more officers had to be called in to control the mob soon after the
last remand hearing Hindley wrote her first letter to her mother Nelly from prison she asked for decent Hills
because she felt like a [ __ ] in her current clothes which were actually Nellie's clothes
she also said she'd never felt so hurt in her life when she was told puppet was dead she ended the letter with the
following line this letter will probably be censored if you should write at all do not mention anything regarding the
cases on Wednesday November 10th the more we searched for the last time Benfield wanted to excavate the entire
hollenberg null area of the moor but to do it they would have had to divert gas pipelines which would have cost 10
million pounds so the excavation didn't take place man Z's wife Margaret said this quote Jo didn't want the search to
end he felt sure they would find the other missing children he never forgot he often went up to the moors even many
years later just to stand at the roadside I've been with him we'd go and he'd say quietly this is it he knew we
all knew that there were other victims up there unfound on Monday December 6 committal proceedings against Brady and
Hindley commenced at Hyde Magistrates Court the committal would determine if there was enough evidence to send the
case to trial reporters from all over the world attended hindley were reflect suit with a yellow
blouse she'd been saving especially for the court she sat next to Brady and they
took notes together and joked in hushed voices when they were traveling back to Rizzoli after the first day of the
committal they talked about dogs Brady said when you're driving you must always run over a dog to avoid running over an
individual Hindley replied oh I couldn't do that on December 7th the prosecution presented
their case when they were traveling back to Rizzoli after that court day Brady told Hindley he was considering killing
himself but it would all depend how the trial went Hindley believed that Brady needed her in that moment more than ever
on December 8th the prosecution's star witness took the stand David Smith he was provided with immunity in relation
to helping clean up after Edward Evans murder there was a general feeling of discontent amongst the community when
they heard that decision David spoke in such a low voice that microphones had to
be brought into the court so he could be heard when he left the stand he looked at Brady Brady gave him a note of
acknowledgement in the smile just like he had the day he was arrested after David Maureen took the stand and Hindley
commented about it in a letter to her mother she wrote did you read the law as Maureen told in court about me hating
babies and children she wouldn't look at me in the dock mum she couldn't she kept
her face turned down the photographs found at 16 water Brook Avenue were presented to the court Hindley believed
these had been returned to her mother and she wrote in a letter keep all the photos for us for reasons on December
13th Hindley solicitors applied for a hairdressing appointment on her behalf stating her dark roots are becoming very
obvious this fact has been a subject of press comment which is naturally a source of irritation to our client the
request was denied on December 14th and Danny Leslie's mother took the stand as she was
describing the events that took place on Boxing Day in 1964 she suddenly grabbed
the sides of the witness box and started screaming and Hindley I'll kill you I'll
kill you she can sit staring at me and she took a little baby's life that beast a
detective was sitting below the witness box and in that moment he turned around and grabbed the water jug that was close
by which end was reaching for as she screamed and continued yelling and calling Hindley a [ __ ] until her voice
wavered and she started crying Hindley stared at her and whispered to Brady I'm not a [ __ ] Brady squeezed her hand
affectionately and whispered back no I know you're not on December 14th the court made the public compressed sleeved
the room in order to play the tape a BBC technician from Manchester had improved
the quality of it and every sound it was now very clear the prosecution then moved on to present John kill Brides
case the jacket and worn on the day of the murder was unwrapped from a plastic cover and shown to the court the
courtroom was overwhelmed by the smell on December 16th the weather outside was so bad
Brady and ingly couldn't be taken back to Rizzoli remand Center so they spent the night in the cells below the court
the next morning Hindley asked for a bag of makeup the guard ignored her instead
handing her a cup of tea that he had poured salt into on Monday December 20th the committal proceedings ended the
judge ruled there was enough evidence for a trial in all three cases a few days before Christmas Brady's solicitor
gave Brady and Hindley each a book of poetry he left them alone for a few minutes and in that time Brady gave
Hindley a notebook while she was in her cell she read it and it contained coded stories of sexual cruelty towards
children the way the code worked was that Brady wrote letters to Hindley and if the date of that letter was
underlined and meant the letter had a coded message in it the seventh and eighth word of every line within the
letter would have to be separated and at the end of it putting those words together would create a short story
after reading the first thorry Hindley started responding with coded letters as well
they worked as stimulation for Brady they also planned to get married they realized if they were married in Delhi
could not be forced to testify against Brady hindley filled in the application forms but permission was refused
Brady solicitor tried getting back the photographs for them Baden hindley were able to look through them and select the
ones they especially wanted to keep both were seen by forensic psychiatrist Brady spoke mostly irrelevantly but
Hindley spoke eloquently the psychiatrist told her she was very well read in English snapped at him saying
what for a murderess I don't like being taken for a working class he did the psychiatrist asked her to have an aeg
exam which would detect any abnormalities in the brain but Hindley refused to have it done in March 1966
after he and Maureen had been bashed by the public repeatedly David Smith ended up attacking a group of teenagers who
called him the third Moore's murderer and he yelled out at him you're no bloody good without that axe Smith
shortly after in Leslie's mother rang the doorbell at David and Maureen's house she'd come with Allen West and her
brother the three of them were drunk after being led in in David that told the truth at the trial so that Brady and
Hindley could be put away forever David told her he would do everything he could
as he didn't want them to be a lady out of prison either as she talked and kept looking at Maureen and Maureen excused
herself to gala make tea for everyone when Maureen came out of the kitchen with the tea in launched at her and
pushed her against the wall Maureen immediately protected her stomach since she was pregnant as Ian started hitting
her it happened in a split second and a first David didn't react but then he instinctively grabbed in as he did so
Allen West went for David David's father who lived with them heard the commotion
and came to help as he did so he ended up fighting with Ann's brother David and his father managed to get the three out
of the flat as they were leaving they screamed bastards you no different than those two [ __ ] bastards you should be
hung the lot of you when david and his father walked back into the flat they saw myrin crouching
down on the floor still protecting her stomach and crying they bent kneeled by her side and held her by the end of
March Hindley got her request to bleach her hair approved and right before the trial
she wrote to her mother saying I had my hair done on Saturday it looked so nice that I'm sorry that I'm all dressed up
and have nowhere to go what was called the trial of the century commenced on Tuesday April 19th 1966 it
took place in the court of Chester Assizes in the town of Chester since it was the main town of Cheshire County 150
reporters arrived in Chester to cover the trial there were press rooms within the building with telephones for the
reporters who couldn't get a seat inside the courtroom 300 officers were brought
in to control the angry crowds they knew would appear outside the trial was going
to be filmed and televised by the BBC but on the second day of the hearing it was decided that the details involving
the case were too shocking and only the verdicts would be broadcast a number of authors appeared as well and those who
wanted to enter the court had to be selected since there were only 60 seats available inside the jury was comprised
of men only and leading the case against Brady and Hindley was Attorney General Sir Frederick Ellen Jones QC he'd been
the prosecution counsel at the Nuremberg war trials and only appeared in cases of
national security or the most serious murder cases Brady and Hindley's defense councils had asked for them to be tried
separately but the judge decided they should be tried together the Attorney General opened the proceedings by
outlining the crimes their background and warning the court they'd have to hear a harrowing audio tape and examine
distressing photographs the second day of the trial opened with evidence from the prosecution the first witness Court
was Maureen originally she was listed the typist and later but her baby was due so they wanted to get her evidence
while they could arrangements were made to take her to hospital urgently if necessary in the witness stand she
described the relationship between Brady and Hindley the friendship between Brady
and David and confirmed Hindley had shopped at the market in ashed and underlined when caught
finished for the day Brady and Hindley were kept in cells at high police station for the night as
they slept a police ball was held on the floor above them on day three Maureen was
caught again and she described the night of Edward Evans murder she also admitted
on the stand that David was receiving a regular income from a national newspaper
and they stood to receive even more money for their story after the trot David Smith was called to the stand
after Maureen he was asked about the payments from the newspaper and turned out he was getting 20 pounds per week
they'd already taken a holiday in France paid by the same newspaper and for providing his post trial story David
would receive 1,000 pounds the background to this is that David had remained unemployed ever since the
arrests he and Maureen kept a lot of hate as well and many saw him as the third Moore's murderer they were pretty
much outcasts they rarely were able to get out of their own home due to being attacked both verbally and physically
David didn't have a way to provide for his family and he didn't know when he would be able to get a job again so he
accepted the offer from the newspaper when the information about the payment from the newspaper came out at trial it
condemned him even further in the eyes of the public the judge himself said the newspaper deal had given the defense a
stick with which to beat him David didn't help his cause when he said on the stand
I love having money it's gorgeous stuff on the fourth day of the trial detectives spoke about the day they
found a Edward Evans body the court was adjourned for the weekend and on Monday April 25th the evidence moved from
Edward Evans case to Lesley Ann Danny's case most of the witness statements were
just read onto the record but Patti Brady and Hindley's 11-year old neighbor who'd pointed the search in the right
direction gave her evidence and sat through cross-examination on April 28th the evidence moved to John Kilbride
during the trial Hindley and Brady played games on a notebook while passing means to each other in sharing whispered
comments on April 29th Brady's defense lawyer opened his case by stating it is terribly terribly important that you
dispose from your minds all the natural revulsion one has in reading or hearing evidence connected with the death of
children the very least or meanest person in this country is entitled to a fair and dispassionate trial and a
proper assessment of the evidence for and against Brady took the stand and elaborated further on his fight with
Edward he said he had spotted Edward at gay bars in Canal Street and to the entire purpose of David being there with
him that night was because they wanted to quote rola queer meaning Brady and David wanted to extort money from Edward
in exchange for silence about his sexuality after giving his version of Edwards murder
Brady spoke about Leslie he testified that Leslie had come to their house on Boxing Day with two men one of whom was
David Smith David and the other man then left with Leslie after the photos were taken
however Brady made two slip-ups the first one was when he was describing the moment after he took the photos he said
he put a handkerchief on her mouth and a scarf covering the lower part of her face just before the end the judge heard
this and asked just before the end what do you mean by the end Brady then tried to correct himself and
stuttering he said the end of just before the or it could be just after the tripod being opened he was allowed to
continue into then a minute later he made the second slip up this time he said after completion we all got dressed
and went downstairs this slip-up was mentioned in the cross-examination by the Attorney General but Brady denied he
ever said it his defense attorney also said he hadn't said it but one of the jurors interrupted he said that sir
Brady tried to get out of it by stating I didn't say that I said the girl got dressed then we all went downstairs the
girl the girl the Attorney General then brought up the landscape photographs and
put it to Brady that he used the photos for future reconnaissance and as morbid enjoyment of the trophies of the murders
whenever Brady could he tried to protect him Dooley with Edward he said she wasn't in the room during the killing
and that when he told her Edward was dead she went hysterical with Leslie he said she didn't want to be in the
room while she was photographed but he'd made her stay he also said that she asked him to destroy the tape recordings
and she was never involved in any plans of robbery on top of that when describing their relationship he made it
seem like she was unimportant he said she was my typist in the office I dictated to her in the office and this
tended to rap over the truth is that the two of them had a plan Brady knew he was
going away for a long time and there was no getting out of it but he was confident Hindley would receive a
minimal sentence and so he did all he could to keep her out of the crimes their plan was that after Hindley was
released she'd travel and share all her experiences with Brady through letters Hindley wrote the following in a letter
to her mother during the trial he's not concerned about his future just mine it's the same with me I'm not interested
in my future just him however we'll have to wait and see what happens I believe in one thing though that no matter how
black things look someday we can begin together again I know what we've done and what we haven't done you know - no
matter what happens on May 3rd Brady completed his testimony and Hindley's mother Nellie was called to the stand
Nellie told the court that no matter what Maureen had said Hindley did not shop at the market in gnashed and
underline after Nellie Hindley took the stand before she went to the witness box she passed a note to
her attorney that said I told you no cross-examination that damages a Hindley was first asked if she wanted to
take the oath or affirm and she answered I want to affirm the judge asked her if
it was because she had no religious beliefs and she said yes the first question the defense attorney asked her
was what her feelings were for Brady and she said I became very fond of him I loved him I still loved him she was
questioned during that day and the next the Attorney General asked her about Leslie Hindley said she was ashamed
about the tape and that her attitude towards Leslie had been cruel she said she was cruel because she was worried
the neighbors might hear her scream she testified that the only reason she was in the room when the photographs were
taken was to make sure Leslie would be able to leave safely afterwards however since she was embarrassed about being
there she kept on looking out the window and didn't actually see anything the Attorney General said a pretty rotten
witness she could have been looking out of the window when asked who toddlers leader posed for the photographs she
said she didn't know because she couldn't hear the Attorney General said it isn't the Albert Hall it's a small
room and you were there Hindley said the voice at the beginning of the recording
who threatened - Leslie - shut up wasn't hers but brady's when asked about the rest of the threats where she taught
Leslie she would hit her until he said I wouldn't have hit her much I never touched her I never harmed her when she
started crying and shouting and screaming I just wanted her to be quiet the Attorney General responded the
screams of a little girl of ten of your sex madam he added that Hindley should have
treated the lazily like a woman should treat a job Hindley said I should have done but I didn't I have no defense for
that the Attorney General finished with your shame is a counterfeit shame miss Hindley Hindley denied knowing she was
posing for photos of burial sites she said she just went along with whatever Brady told her to do she was in the
witness box for a total of six hours Brady had been in the box for nine in his closing speech the Attorney General
said that although David was no angel he told his story frankly and exactly as for Brady in Hindley he said they formed
an evil partnership together and cooperated together in all they did my submission is that the same pairs of
hands killed all three of these victims Evans Downey in a kill bribe and two these are the pairs of hands of the two
accused in the dock in his closing speech Hindley's defense attorney described their relationship as one of
master and servant in his summary to the jury the judge said from first to last there has not been the smallest
suggestion that either of these two was in any way mentally abnormal or not fully responsible for his or her actions
that leads on to this that if the prosecution is right you are dealing here with two killers of the utmost
depravity they are entitled to the unusual incredulity which such terrible offenses must raise in the mind of any
normal person could anybody be as wicked as that the jury was dismissed the 2:40
p.m. on Friday May 6 1966 they returned with a verdict two and a half hours later 5:10 p.m. Brady was found a guilty
of all three murders Hindley was found guilty of the murders of Edward Evans and Lesley Ann Downey but not guilty of
the murder of John kilbride however she was found guilty of knowing Brady had murdered John that she had received
comforted harbored assisted and maintained Brady an accessory after the fact after the verdicts were read the judge
said am Brady those were three calculated cruel cold-blooded murders in your case I
passed the only sentence the law now allows which is three concurrent sentences of life imprisonment in your
case Myra Hindley you've been found guilty of two equally horrible murders and in the third as an accessory after
the fact on the two murders the sentence is two concurrent sentences of life imprisonment and on the charge of being
an accessory after the fact to the death of John Kilbride a concurrent sentence of seven years imprisonment in the
corridor below the courtroom Brady and Hindley saw each other with their attorneys and Hindley asked him to
please not kill himself they returned to Rizzoli in separate compartments of the
same beam and after spending one last night there they were each sent to different prisons Hindley was sent to
Holloway prison in London over 320 kilometres from Manchester she was first kept in the hospital wing until it was
then safe for her to be put in general population she was accommodated in the D wing it wasn't long before the attack
started she was first hit by a fellow prisoner with a broom then she was invited to join a card game with ten
other prisoners when she accepted they all beat her and threw her against the wired fence
Hindley never fought back and didn't name her attackers she asked instead to be placed in solitary confinement a
doctor and the governor at the prison advised her that since she had such a long sentence ahead of her she should
endure the abuse because she couldn't be placed in solitary confinement permanently instead she was assigned a
prison guard to walk with her everywhere she went one week after her sentence she appealed
against her conviction on the grounds that it had been detrimental to be tried with Brady her appeal was denied she was
told that all her faculties were shown correctly during the trial and Brady tried to exonerate her at all times so
the fact that they were tried together was actually beneficial for her Hindley remained in close contact with Brady
through letters Brady was sent to Durham prison 205 kilometres from Manchester shortly after Brady got to prison
he was scolded by an inmate and placed in solitary confinement indefinitely he never left his cell he ate his meals
alone spend his time reading and had a mouse inside the cell that he fed whenever he took walks in the prison
yard he had to be escorted by three guards and the rest of the prisoners had the remain inside their cells Brady and
Hindley requested visits with one another but their requests were refused time and time again marine read about
one of the attacks on her sister in prison and gathered up the courage to send her a letter to ask how she was
doing she never received a reply in a letter Hindley wrote to Brady she said Smith must die marine to marine
and David's second child Paul Anthony Smith was born on May 9th 1966 three days after the trial ended David got the
1000 pounds from his deal with the news of the world but no money from syndication rights as promised every day
a council representative would appear at their flat to erase graffiti that was left outside their door saying things
like child killers live here and murdering bastards they were still hardly able to leave their flat so David
started taking walks in the middle of the night because it was the only time the streets were free of people and he
could go unharmed Maureen only left the flat to go shopping for the baby and when she did
she got spat on and caught various names she would return crying every time she stepped out of the house at one point
David was able to find a job and Maureen were excited that they might be able to
live somewhat normally again Maureen prepared him lunch to take on his first day but when David showed up he was met
by union workers at the front gate who told him to [ __ ] off because there was no place for him David
ran away fearful he was about to get bashed soon after this he received the social security letter informing him
that due to exceptional circumstances he was no longer required to seek employment his probation officer who was
in close contact with him offered to move them up north where they get new names and become anonymous David refused
he didn't want to run away like a criminal as he said he had done nothing plus he didn't believe it would work
anyway the entire country knew who they were during the summer David and Maureen
were visited by Emlyn Williams a renowned actor and writer who was researching a book on the murders he
asked David if he believed Brady was a quote queer David's answer was quote Ian's queerer than queer this line
became the title to the last chapter of the book Williams wrote called beyond belief which became a best-seller it was
a semi fictionalized account of the murders while researching the book Williams had access to Hindu Lee's diary
Hindu Lee was furious she write to Benfield asking how Williams had gotten access when her diaries were part of the
police evidence the book was going to be turned into a film Hindu Lee received a
contract to sign her consent but she refused to do so since she considered the book a pack of
lies the victims families also protested the film and it was never made On January 27th 1967 detectives visited
Hindley at Holloway prison to see if she would talk but she refused and told them
she couldn't help with the inquiries on Pauline or Keith or any other victims for that matter she told them to
question David in February 1968 Hindu Lee was granted a special privilege and got transferred to Risley for one week
so that her grant could visit since she was dying the Press reported the transfer and that led to public outrage
in June 68 Hindley learnt tapestry and with two other inmates they made a carpet which was for a commission from
the Polish Embassy knowing the carpet was leaving the prison Hindu Lee placed a piece of paper in the hem of the
carpet that read Myra Hindley made this carpet during the same month David was sent to prison he and Maureen
had two more children when in April 1967 and two the other in December 68 David and Maureen were both abusing alcohol
and appeals they were moved from Underwood court to slide away in Hattersley however the confrontations
with the public continued David had enough and stud the man who started to attack him
as soon as he did it he realized the enormity of what he'd done so he went to the police station and turned himself in
he told the officer on the desk you might be looking for me my name is David Smith's there was a trial which took
place in hired a magistrate's court where Brady and Hindley's remained hearings and committal proceedings were
help David was sentenced to three years in prison he was sent to Walton jail in Liverpool 66 kilometers away from
Manchester in August of 1968 brady silly start got hold of the photographs negative his slides and a tartan album
that belonged to Brady and Hindley they'd been asking for them back ever since the investigation the solicitor
gave everything to Hindle his mother and Hindley asked her to send three specific
slides to Brady Nellie didn't send them Hindley wrote to her he keeps asking why
he hasn't received them yet in his last letter he said he'll have to send someone round for them by 1970 after
being separated in prison for over three and a half years Hindley fell out of love with Brady their relationship
through letters wasn't enough for either of them and in prison Hindley changed a
view about what their relationship was ever since she entered prison Hindley had different affairs with women and
that year she'd met a new lava Tricia cans Tricia was a prison officer who was a former nun Hindley wrote a letter to
Tricia telling her she couldn't stop thinking about her and her days were brighter when she was around after that
they started spending time together in Hindley cell Carol a friend of Hindley's kept watch and sang a song if anyone
approached I was around this time Hindle he didn't feel like answering Brady's letters anymore so she got her friend at
Carol to do it for her in 1971 Carol left prison and Hindley reluctantly started answering Brady's letters again
the one person Hindley enjoyed sending letters to was Trisha firstly she sent him through her cousin and a later
through Carol Trisha would go to Carol's flat and read the letters which were coded Hindley would also bribe either
inmates with cigarettes to have messages delivered to Trisha during this time Hindley lost a great deal of weight the
weight loss was due to some and to a lack of eating she often didn't eat her food because other inmates
urinated in it at one point Brady sent a coded message to Hindley asking her if she wanted to end at their
relationship and told her he'd be waiting for her reply to see where his fate light Hindley was convinced that if
she left him he'd commit suicide and so she kept on corresponding but sent him a
poem about the outgrowth of love by Wordsworth so he would understand where she was at
Brady continued writing every week first from Durham then from Albanese prism and
to lastly from Parker's prism situated on all of what there he learnt Braille and started transcribing books for the
blind by 1972 Hindley changed her mind about corresponding with Brady and said she didn't want to talk to him anymore
she told him not to bother writing to her again because she would directly pass the letters to the prison governor
as a final gesture Brady sent her back a bookmark she'd sent him the previous Christmas in March 72 Hindley sent a
letter to Frank Putnam commonly known as Lord Longford who was a politician as well as a social reformer and a very
active Catholic he was well known for visiting and forming friendships with Christmas he became friends with Hindley
she told him she never thought she would be ending her relationship with Brady but because she reconciled with God she
was convinced it was the right thing to do in a different letter to Lord Longford she wrote I wish to put him out
of my life as totally as I do all the unhappy destructive and godless aspects of my past life with him and I must
admit that I rarely ever think of him now had it not been for him I would never have been involved in any of the
things that brought me to prison Hindley's mother Nellie sent father Brady's photographs to him as soon as
the relationship ended when David began his sentence at Walton in 1969 he was placed in solitary confinement for his
own protection the other prisoners would throw [ __ ] and Pierce at him Maureen visited him a couple of times but then
she stopped showing up at one of the visits from his father David asked him what was happening his father told him
Maureen was seeing another man and she had actually cheated on David with the same man before David believed
this was related to the impersonal visits in prison the visiting room for solitary confinement inmates had thick
glass he asked to be let out of solitary confinement so he could have more personalised visits with Maureen in
order for this to happen he would have to become a regular inmate the governor said his safety could not be guaranteed
but David insisted he was transferred to Lancaster prison eighty-seven kilometers
from Manchester a lot further away than Walton when he got there he received a letter from Maureen saying they were
over she told him not to write to her again or send her visiting requests after reading it David slit his wrists
he was transferred back to Walden and put on psychiatric watch a special visit was arranged and Maureen went to see him
after his suicide attempt they made plans to have a future together 15 days later he sent Maureen a new visiting
request along with a letter but it was marked returned to sender at home Maureen was neglecting their three
children she got drunk and hired with the new man she was seeing and she often disappeared for the entire day David's
father who still lived with them grew tired of the situation and moved out the children were still very young the
eldest was Paul who was six but they were underweight had lice and slept on sheets that hadn't been changed in
months the welfare department found out and contacted Maureen she admitted she was unable to take care of them a
caseworker appeared at the house to check on them Maureen was nowhere to be found the caseworker found the door open
into their children alone inside she took them to acorns a care home in the neighborhood of Fallowfield a kilometers
from Manchester the children became the favourites of one of the nurses and their health significantly improved at
Walton David received a visit from his probation officer he'll explain this situation with the children but told him
they were doing well at the moment to reassure him their probation officer showed him up-to-date pitches and the
special visit was arranged David started receiving monthly visits from his sons until he left
prison in the summer of 1971 he got a house and did everything he could to rebuild a life with the boys with the
help of his father one day they went to visit a friend of David's father and there David met his father's friend's
daughter Mary ferati Mary had seen David before back on December 6th 1965 when the committal proceedings started in
Hyde and David and Maureen entered the court Mary was only nine years old then and went to primary school at Greenfield
Street primary which was directly opposite the court the moment when David and Maureen left their car to enter the
court Mary was having a break at school and she saw the commotion of cameras as well
as the couple entering she didn't know who the two people being photographed were since she hadn't been told of the
case it was years later that she found out when they formally met each other in 1971 Mary was corn to him and didn't
judge he ended up telling her exactly who he was one day sharing his entire story and Mary listened they became
close after that sharing walks together into talking every day until Mary's 15th
birthday when David kissed her for the first time afterwards they began dating in 1972 David's father had advanced
stage cancer one day he was completely unable to move and was in severe pain when David got home and saw him in that
state he gave him a full bottle of sleeping pills David called the doctor and his father
was taping the hospital he called the police and told him what he'd done he was then charged for murder in
November he pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was given just two days of imprisonment while he was in
remaining to wait in court his boys were left with Mary at her father's house and
Maureen reappeared twice twice she took her son's back twice she abandoned them again
after the second time she didn't reappear and the boys stayed with Mary in September 1972 Hindley was lowered
from a category a prisoner to a category B category A's for the most dangerous inmates so being lowered to a B gave her
more freedom within the prison and also outside if the governor of the prison wanted she could even escort Hindley
outside for a short period of time in Hindley's case she had developed a good relationship with the governor so the
governor decided to take Hindley out and they went to Hampstead Heath which is a
park five kilometers away from the prison they went with a friend of the governor and her dog
Hindley described the outing with the words it was as though I had never been inside everything came back to me there
was the smell of grass and trees and throwing a ball for the governor's dog there were children playing when they
returned to prison they were spotted and the media went haywire there were television and radio debates and
questions were even asked in Parliament the home office ended up releasing a statement that said the outing was not
an attempt to prepare Hindley for release end of the Home Secretary Robert Carr considered it an error of judgment
not to be repeated there was an internal inquiry conducted at the prison and the
governor released the statement she said I took Myra out because I thought it would do her some good to see some grass
and trees and have a breath of fresh air bless her heart she enjoyed it very much
she said doesn't the grass smell beautiful I knew I realized that it was an of judgment because mr. car has said
that it was it was later revealed that that trip to the park wasn't him Lee's first day out from prison she'd
previously been taken to an exhibition at the British Museum and when a member of the public recognized tingly she
thought she had escaped from prison so the police were called the governor resolved at this incident by saying that
the arting was under strict supervision of prison staff and that it was designed
to start Emily's rehabilitation program after this Hindley started planning a prison escape and turned to her prison
guard lover Trisha Kent's to help organize it Hindley went to Maxine Croft an inmate
from her wing that was a green being prisoner meaning chose among the most trusted and had access to the officers
room for cleaning the plan was for her to take keys from the officers room and make copies Maxine took the keys and
made impressions with modeling plaster she also told pictures of Hindley in order to make a new passport she sent it
all to a friend of hers who ended up dubbing them in Hindley and Tricia were questioned and they denied at all
officers looked for evidence and found a driver's license in the name of Amira Spencer in April 1974 the case was heard
at the Old Bailey the Central Criminal Court of England Hindley Tricia and Maxine were all
charged they all pleaded guilty and Maxine's attorney said she was a naive younger woman intimidated by two older
women Trish's attorney said the relationship she shared with Hindley was platonic and two when Tricia herself
took the stand she said Hindley was sorry for her crimes and had been purified in the crucible of suffering
Maxine was sentenced to 18 months in prison Hindley 2:12 further months into Trisha
- six years plus she had her Prison Service pension frozen until the age of 60 while in prison Tricia told him
Burleigh she didn't want any more to do with her and if she wrote her letters should end them straight to the governor
Hindley kept trying to send her letters and Tricia handed them to the governor as she said she would when Tricia was
released she stayed with family in Manchester and found a job as a bus driver one day Danny Kilbride John's
brother got on her bus and record mr. he announced to the whole bus who she was and the passengers started
abusing her Hindley was transferred to another wing where she was allowed a small black and white television along
with books records and photographs of family and friends she started writing in her letters that she wanted to be a
mother and in 1975 the prison staff wondered if she was planning a new escape she was known to be able to
imitate their voices and could perhaps open the electronic doors she was given an official warning for it
in the same year she reconciled with Maureen Maureen and David divorced in 1973 on the grounds of unreasonable
conduct Maureen was given access to her son's for the first three months she would show up at times but also missed a
lot of visits after three months she didn't show up at all then Maureen met a truck driver called Bill
Scott bill asked her out a couple of times but Maureen said no until one day she accepted when they were on their
first date bill asked why she said no so many times she simply stated on Myra Hindley's sister bill told her he cared
about her and not her family and they started dating bill divorced his wife and moved in with Maureen
they lived in Manchester and both suffered harassment from the public to get away from it Maureen started
travelling in the truck we've built while on the road she felt pregnant and they had a girl Sharon David's new
relationship with Mary blossomed and on February 16th 1975 in Flowery field church had hired they married when
Maureen's thought as Sharon was 6 weeks old she took her with Bill to meet Hindley Maureen was nervous about seeing
her sister again but when she got there Hindley hugged her fiercely and they both cried they started talking about
old times and Hindley pampered Sharon calling her a queen into my little ray of sunshine she got her gifts cards and
decorated her cell with pictures of the little baby she also told marine to ask David for pictures of her three sons
David found out about the meetings between Laureen and Hindley and it was not happy during their meetings Maureen
asked Hindley twice about other missing children and particularly about Pauline read Hindu Lee told her both times she
didn't know anything on Sunday September 26 1976 the son posted a 10-year anniversary feature about the murders
and officers at the prison showed the newspaper to an inmate she was so horrified by what she read
that she went after Hindley and hit her so hard that she broke her nose loosened
her teeth left her eyes blackened split one ear and lip and damaged the cartilage in one of her knees for six
weeks Hindley had to be given liquid food through a straw she said the inmate was a pawn and that
the officers in the prison were to blame in January 1977 Hindley was transferred
to Durham prison 423 kilometers north on July 6th the same year a program called
brass talked from the BBC dedicated an episode to hinder his bid for parole Hindley was given a life sentence which
was 21 years however after one third of the sentence had passed the inmate could
apply for parole in Hindley's case that was in 1973 and ever since that time Lord Longford had been campaigning on
her behalf to get her released however his fetus didn't play well with the public and they caused the arrangement
rather than under steaming Hindley herself asked Longford and his friends to stop the campaign because it wasn't
beneficial to her at all the aim of this program was the sense the public's reaction to the possibility of seeing
Hindley released representing her with Longford Maureen and the two other supporters against her was in West
Leslie's mother and three others when one of Hindley supporters was asked her impression of her she said yes my
impression of Myra Hindley F when I first went in I didn't know what to expect because all I read was
inflammatory reports in the newspapers when I met her she was very different she's tall slim attractive quietly
spoken sensitive person reads a lot and you know I don't like this expression an
angel because I mean she's a very nice person at the moment and I'm certain if she's led out there's absolutely no risk
at all that she'd ever you know molest a child in any sense at all in West in response I had to hear the tapes of my
daughter and never heard am Brady it was Myra Hindley on that tape with my daughter not Ian Brady I had to listen
to that and identify the body when does my parole begin I'm serving a life sentence because of that monster I
had to listen to those tapes of my daughter begging for mercy if Myra Hindley comes out I'll be up for murder
I've said this to Lord Longford once and I'll say it again she will be one dead woman I want justice Patrick kilbride
John's father called the studio and supported in by saying I'll wait outside the jail for her the BBC got hundreds of
calls and everyone stood by the victims families an opinion poll taken showed that 84% of the people believed Hindley
should never be freed Lord Longford made a statement for Hindley afterwards and said no one who knows her seriously
supposes that she would be a public menace if she were released her state of remorse is such that she will be haunted
by it all her life in January 1978 Brady sent a letter to the Daily Mirror where
he said he didn't want to visit from Lord Longford because of the free Maura campaign and the fact that it didn't
represent his views on parole to Brady what they done justified permanent imprisonment Hindley had been working on
her parole play ever since she got to Durham and she wrote 36 pages that she sent to the Home Secretary in them she
described the crimes as something she knew nothing about and something she did because she had Brady on a pedestal her
plea was rejected and she was told it wouldn't be considered again for another three years Lord Longford did visit
Brady at Wormwood Scrubs prison in London where he worked at the time Longford went to confirm the account
Brady had given at the trial of him Lee's role in the crimes or her lack of a role
Brady refused to help in January 1980 Hindley received a Bachelor of Arts degree in humanities becoming one of the
first prisoners to study for an open university degree she was excited felt proud and wanted to continue but in July
that year she received some bad news about Maureen Maureen had been on a night out with Bill when she felt a
strong headache and they headed home the next day she was vomiting and Bill rust
her to the hospital they told her she had a brain hemorrhage and after an emergency operation she seemed to get
better Hindley sent her a get-well card along with money for her mother to travel back
and forth to the hospital but Maureen suffered a relapse and fell into a coma bill called David who visited with his
elder son they both talk to Maureen while she was in a coma to see if she would wake up Hindley was
hysterical and the home office granted permission for her to go to the hospital she did but when she arrived Maureen had
already been unplugged from life support Maureen was 34 years old when she died ingly went to see Maureen in her coffin
at the hospital chapel she told a reporter who was there that it was the first time she had seen a dead person
later she wrote to her mother Nelly and told her that as painful as it was for her she knew it must be worse for a
parent to lose a child the day after she asked other inmates to do a rosary for marine and they did two days later she
wrote to the authorities and told them that although she wanted to attend the funeral she wouldn't be putting in a
request because she knew the press would be there and she wanted to preserve the
family and her sisters dignity the press was at the funeral anyway and so were an
West and Patrick killbride Patrick confused one of the women for Hindley and launched after her he was tackled
and taken away by the police in waited for everyone to leave and went to a flower arrangement Hindley had sent with
a card that said there are no words to express how I miss you I love you Maura and ripped it apart for months later
Hindley's father Bob died he was told of Maureen's death and he didn't take the news well he suffered a heart attack
those that knew him thought it might have been for the best anyway as his life at being held as well
he had bricks thrown through his windows constantly got sent hate letters and was
also abused and threatened when he left a house Hindley again wrote to the authorities
and informed them she didn't want to attend the funeral this time she said it was because she never had a good
relationship with her father after that Hindley fell into a depression in 1982 two influential men started campaigning
for her release Peter Tim's and David asta Tim's had been a prison officer and a governor and
asta an editor at The Observer there were friends of Lord Longford and he asked them to intervene because he
wasn't getting anywhere Timms when as far as trying to arrange for the Pope to visit Hindley in prison when he visited
the UK and the archbishop said no as the started corresponding with Hindley and she got a new solicitor together they
tried to change the public's view about her and Hindley gave an interview with two journalists from The Sunday Times in
the interview she said again that Brady had influenced her the article ran with a headline the woman who cannot face the
truth around the same time Hindley heard Brady had requested to see the place it was true but when the
police saw him Brady just sat there and didn't say anything Hindley was transferred the keuken would
prison which had far better living conditions and West Leslie's mother was photographed at the gates protesting
against the move n had been battling throughout these years she had twice taken an overdose of tranquilizers and
she voluntarily entered a psychiatric hospital in February 1984 Hindley got a letter from Leslie's uncle
that included the line I would still be prepared to kill you and stand trial for my crime Hindley
didn't respond and he sent her another letter he also contacted the press Hindley asked the prison governor Dean
Devine saying that she had always felt threatened by the downing family and was worried about the hate campaign that
were creating against her she didn't receive any more letters after that a few weeks later and in May entered her
so in the middle of the night threw her out of bed and hit her in the head shoot she had a slow recovery after this
attack on July 23rd she was transferred to the prison hospital and remained for two months mainly due
to depression when she was sent back to her wing she changed jobs and started working in the library as well as
knitting for other prisoners children and their families and friends she said it was too late for her to be a mother
but she'd always wanted to be one in 1985 a prison review committee recommended Hindley for parole
when the Press reported it Danny Kilbride told the son he'd kill Hindley if she was released
Hindley got him arrested through her solicitor and the police wanted him to retract his statement Danny didn't he
explained it had been too hard for him and his family after John in May the Home Secretary announced the parole
board had analyzed him Lee's case and determined she should stay in prison for at least five more years before being
considered for release Hindley sent a letter to him and called him a mental executioner as well as saying that her
religious beliefs were the only thing that kept her from taking her own life at that moment then in June 1985 there
was breaking news Fred Harrison a reporter broke the story that Ian Brady had confessed to the
murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett Brady was now in Gori prison located in
Market Harborough Leicestershire in his cell he only had a bed a table a chair and a bucket and during the nights he
would sleep on the chair and guards would hear him scream or cursing he said he was hearing voices and would often
require sedation since 1983 Brady had been corresponding with Harrison and by the end of 84 he allowed him to visit
when talking about the crimes Brady declared them the acts of a madman he said he didn't deserve sympathy and
didn't seek it that he wanted to spend the rest of his life in prison when he newly heard the news Brady had confessed
the Pauline and Keith's murders she was so affected that she ended up in prison hospital taking tranquilizers and
rejecting any food another person who heard the news was the head of the Greater Manchester Criminal
Investigation Division Detective Chief Superintendent Peter topping along with two other
detectives who went to see Brady but Brady was in no state to speak he was diagnosed with acute paranoia and
schizophrenia and moved to a high-security psychiatric unit Park Lane in Liverpool when the news came out in
West Leslie's mother threatened to go and dig up the moor herself in early 1986 she announced that she had written
to Brady asking him to meet with her she wanted to convince him to tell the truth
and revealed the remaining burial sites but the authorities didn't believe it was a good idea Brady didn't like the
idea either n wasn't the only person who had written to him Keith's mother Winnie
Johnson had as well Brady admitted he'd gotten both letters but he was afraid of
reading them and that he couldn't imagine how a meeting would go in April he did end up writing back to him and a
shorter he would never seek parole and that he felt remorse in addition he let her know that for the past 18 years had
been doing work with Braille and that even though he couldn't balance the past he was at least doing something positive
and useful he never wrote back to Winnie Johnson when he tried writing to Hindley
as well she said please I beg of you tell me what happened to Keith my heart tells me you know and I am on bended
knees begging you to end this torture and fine we put my mind at rest please miss
Hindley helped me when reading the letter Hindley cried and was unable to speak for a while when she got her voice back
she said I wish I did know something I could at least then put the poor woman out of her misery on November 3rd she
wrote to Tim's and told him that she didn't have any guilty secrets so she wondered if she should reply to
Winnie Hindley said for the sake of this poor demented woman the awful tragedy is
that I cannot help her in any way if I could I would I swear this as God is my judge I'd even be willing to contact the
police and ask them to take me to those awful Moors but those moors are so vast I wouldn't know where to start or even
what I was looking for Tim's told her not to reply and when winning insisted for a meeting he
advised Hindley not to meet her on November 17th Tim's visited Hindley and while they
were discussing the letter Peter toping appeared he asked her to talk and Hindley agreed but on the condition that
Tim's would be present toping asked her she'd be willing to look at maps and photographs
Hindley agreed on November 18th toping returned and as he studied Hindley he realized she gave special attention to
the photographs that were believed to be taken at Holland Brian Knoll and Shani broke the stream at Wes ndon head
the two places were already marked and were being searched topping hadn't revealed it to anyone but he was already
searching them all the search consisted of one man and his dog going over to selected spots one was Hollen Bryant
null since it was the logical place to start given two bodies had already been found
there and the other was ho green located 3 kilometres away in Wesson burn head ho
green when is a vertical stream into Shawnee Brooke after looking in the pictures and maps
Hindley issued a statement through her solicitor saying she helped me in Chester police with their new search on
the mall and pointed out places that were a particular interest to Brady on November 20th 1986 a full team started
searching the more the team was led by topping aster wrote to Hindley and told her that with Tim's and Lord Longford
they discussed her case and they all agreed that her problems were with public opinion and not with the law he
recommended setting Tim's as her spokesperson topping tried talking to Brady again Brady was doing better but
he refused to help the Home Secretary granted permission to take Hindley to the more if necessary
and the media had already started speculating about a visit it was rumored that a clear photo of her at the mall
might be worth as much as 20,000 pounds on the morning of December 16th 1986 Hindley was awoken in her cell and
driven to Kent Police Headquarters in Maidstone from there she boarded a helicopter with
her solicitor and two police officers and at 8:30 a.m. they arrived at the mall she was handed a jacket sandwiches
and a hot drink and then she was driven to Shani Brook however a member of parliament had leaked news of the visit
and in order to escape the press topping to Hindley on an alternate route that she'd never seen because it was built
after her arrest she told toppings she was finding it hard to get her bearings and at midday she suggested entering
from a spot she was more familiar with as they got there maybe a helicopter started circling and Hindley broke down
in tears she pointed out some spots and spoke about a hill but couldn't give any
clear details they then drove to Holland Brown Knoll they took Kimberly to the area where
John and Leslie's burial sites were found but as they stood there Hindley said she didn't know where the
previous burial sites were and for that reason she couldn't know where any other
burial sites could be at 3:00 p.m. she was put back on the helicopter and taken back to prison David Smith was also
approached by topping and taken to the mall it wasn't able to say much other than he remembered parking the car with
Brady and Hindley at hoe grain the press covered the search and criticized how it
was being handled and how there was still no results topping ignored them On January 27th 1987 he went back to see
Hindley sitting with her solicitor Hindley told them that David Smith was not involved in Pauline's murder that
none of the murders happened in the house had been off street and that the search should focus on Shani Brook and
hollenberg knoll afterwards her solicitor along with Tim's aster and another attorney held an emergency
meeting to discuss if Hindley should make a full confession to the police she'd already made one to Tim's Tim's
was qualified as a Methodist minister as well as already being a therapist and he
held sessions once a week with Hindley for months the four men decided it was in Hindley's best interest to make a
full confession the meeting leaked to the press and aster and Tim's believe that had been Hindley solicitor who told
them so they convinced her to get rid of him Hindley reluctantly did so into the last
thing he said as her representative was the heroine in this story is my client she's being very very brave On February
5th Hindley sent a cryptic letter to a star where she seemed to imply there was information she wasn't revealing as
there in turn rate the Tim's and asked him the meaning behind her words On February 19th 1987 Hindley had a meeting
with topping and with Tim's by her side she told the detective she helped Brady kill Paul Henreid and Keith Bennett the
confession wasn't cautioned or recorded well if she spoke she cried and afterwards she spent the weekend sedated
on Monday and Tuesday she retook the confession and told them her entire life story and everything she knew about the
murders she found it particularly hard to talk about Pauline and Leslie and she was given several tranquilizers as she
did so the detective working with toping ended feeling terrible for her Hindley had again given a version where Brady
controlled her and the detective believed she'd been so absolutely besotted by him that she'd do all sorts
of things for the love and respect of her partner he stated had she not met Ian Brady and fallen in love with him
she would have fallen in love and gotten married and had a family and being like
any other member of the public topping didn't agree with his fellow detective he realized that many points Hindley had
quoted parts from his speech the Attorney General gave at the 1966 trial where he told the court Hindley had been
an ordinary girl before meeting Brady and he made her fall through the path where they ended topping stated her
reference to this document made me realize that her confession was being carefully controlled she also spoke in a
very almost to organized way when describing the killings after she described how Pauline died she used the
phrase well that as far as I remember concludes the first murder which was Pauline reads topping asked her like
other detectives had before if the photographs were markers for the burial sites her answer was no she
denied knowing about any other murders and at the end topping had mixed feelings he felt what he'd seen and
heard was a great performance rather than a genuine confession when they finished
Hindley returned to her cell and a moment later called timpz to tell him she was ready to go on the record he
begged her not to but Hindley responded no I should have done this 20 years ago Timms then called topping and for two
days Hindley went over her confession again this time it was cautioned and recorded as a result of her confession
the Home Office cancelled her counseling sessions with Tim's Hindley sent a letter where she said she was burdened
with the aftermath and at one point she wrote I believe suicide to be a mortal sin and one that cannot be forgiven
unlike the mortal sins I recently confessed to and received absolution from topping went to see Brady and told
him that Hindley had made a full and complete confession Brady said he would do the same if he was given the means to
commit suicide afterwards on March 23rd Hindley was taken from prison in an unmarked car during the evening and
spent the night at Greater Manchester's police training school in the early hours of the following morning topping
to go back to the mall they first went to hoe grain and after lunch they traveled three kilometres to Holland
Brown knoll Hindley showed excitement and told toping he was looking in all the right places
at Holland Brown knoll she said her and Brady had hidden a metal box but she wasn't able to point at any specific
place she also didn't say what the box contained on April 15th she wrote to the authorities and told them she didn't
want to be considered for parole in 1990 and that she was concentrating on writing her autobiography she'd started
writing it at the end of 1985 after Tim's suggested the idea in November that year they approached an author to
co-write the book with Hindley but Hindley decided she wanted to do it on her own after that they contacted an
agent and the deal was made they agreed on a sum of 100,000 pounds 70% of which would go to charity while the other 30%
would go to her mother Nelly for charity Hindley wanted the funds to go to the National Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children but her advisers told her it wouldn't be the best idea so she decided to choose
the National Council for civil liberties instead the Home Office approved the deal and she began working delivering
the book in installments - a stir about her book Hindley stated I hope that in some way
what I am able to relate will enable a wiser understanding of the awful complexity
surrounding the abuse of children in April the news about her confession came out and it caused media discussions all
over again Keith Bennett's mum we need Johnson wrote to her and this time Hindley
responded thanking her for the previous letters and telling her that if she'd only written to her 14 years before she
would have been able to help because 14 years prior is when Hindley was still talking to brady pauline and keeps
families wanted a new trial as Hindley and Brady had only been convicted of Edward Leslie and John's murders Hindley
said should be happy for a neutral but topping shut down the idea stating it wouldn't be necessary several supporters
of Hindley felt betrayed by her confession to Pauline and Kate's murder since several had spoken on her behalf
and defended her openly in public her mother Nellie had to resign from her job and stay at home because their
harassment from the public ramped up again bill Mellie's husband Hindley stepfather didn't want any more
to do with Hindley the house Hindley and Brady shared at 16 water Brook Avenue was constantly damaged and the council
decided to demolish it Hindley took another step when she wrote an open letter to the BBC where she
asked Brady to cooperate and give a full confession to the police just like she had in prison she was analyzed by
psychiatrists and was found to be of sound mind Hindley herself said confessing everything had unleashed a thousand
demons that hadn't left her since the murders she also felt haunted by not talking earlier the psychiatrists
believe what Hindley was looking for with the confession had more to do with her remaining in the public eye than
anything else Brady did cooperate with the police he didn't give a full confession but he
spoke and in return he asked for what he called a human week which meant being able to eat and drink whatever he wanted
as well as being able to watch old films such as Gone with the Wind one point he
insisted on was the fact that Hindley knew very well where the burial sites were and she was purposefully choosing
not to tell them during May there were torrential rains at the mall in the excavated areas at Hoag rain were
flooded the search moved to the higher areas of Holland Brian and stayed close to Leslie's grave but
far from the road since Hindley had described Paul Lane's body as lying on the grass and that seemed to suggest the
place had to be deeper into them all on June 17th toping called Hindley and pressured her to try and remember more
details of our poor Lane's burial site Hindley told him that she now remembered Pauline wasn't so close to the gas
pipeline and was further back from Lesley she added that when she stood next to her she was able to see the
rocks at Holland Brown knoll outlined in the sky on July 1st 1987 towards the end
of the day the team of searchers were walking through the grass when they noticed the change in vegetation they
started carefully digging and after a few minutes they found a white shoe the team left everything as it was and
called topping to come to the mall they continued digging and found the remains of Pauline Reade almost perfectly
preserved like Leslie she was lying on her side and her knees were bent up towards her chest with her left arm
crossing it front and her right arm resting by her side the foot that was missing a shoe was better preserved than
the covered one her clothes were opened in disheveled and once more the detectives had no doubt as to what had
happened to her toping went to see amos reed and gave him the news he didn't say
much other than he was sorry that his wife Joan was in psychiatric care toping called Winnie Johnson and told her her
body had been found but it wasn't Keith she started crying on the phone and topping told her he would continue
searching in Dooley read the news the next day and Brady was visited by topping Brady told him it was funny how
long the place had been close to Pauling's burial site without knowing until I third toping took Brady to the
mall they went to hoe grain first just like they had with Hindley Brady started walking on and off through
different places not really stopping anywhere when he got to the meeting point between Ho green and shiny Brook
Brady finally pointed at a slope and said he'd hidden a spade in that particular spot
the police dug and found nothing then Brady climbed onto a high rock topping went after him believing Brady wanted to
throw himself off however Brady told him he just wanted to enjoy the view when they returned
topping came to the conclusion that the visit only benefited Brady not long after Brady sent a letter to
the BBC claiming he'd killed five more people the police investigated but it led nowhere
topping still visited Brady often trying to get information out of him Brady told
him he was ashamed of what he'd done and he didn't want to discuss how he killed
the children he had blocks in his mind and he didn't want to remove them because he was afraid of what might
happen if he did so topping tried speaking with Maggie Brady's mother to safer house she knew
something but she didn't she struggled every day to understand what had gone wrong with her son on August 4th topping
went to see Hindley again he hadn't communicated with her since they found a pauline enkindle he felt offended she
also complained at how long it took to find pauline which he felt she'd given very clear directions on august 7th 1987
Pauling was buried in Gorton cemetery her mother Joan was heavily sedated at the psychiatric hospital where she was
still under care and was escorted to the burial with two nurses hundreds were there to pay their respects and among
them were Leslie's mother in West along with most of the killbride family on August 24th the search of the mall was
canceled topping promised winnie johnson that if significant information arose they would resume the search for keys
topping stayed in close contact with Brady and Hindley and in December he took Brady to the mall for a second time
once again at led nowhere Brady suggested that he should meet with Hindley to discuss where Keith could be
topping told him that wouldn't be happening topping concluded Brady and Hindley still had a very strong connection he
said despite the fact that he was at times very critical of her and despite the fact that she had not hesitated to
outline his crimes I felt they both still had a lingering regard for each other neither seem to want to hurt the
other Hindley continued to try and change the public's view of her and she wrote a letter to end west it ended in a
shambles when at one point she said I now want to say to you and I implore to you to believe me because it is the
truth that your child was not physically tortured as is widely believed then Hindley wanted to meet with the
journalist who had written several articles on miscarriages of justice it didn't end well the first question the
journalist asked her was how she could take a ten-year-old off the streets referring to Leslie Hindley's answer was
she shouldn't have been out so late at night the journalist described Hindley as a narcissist psychopath with
grandiose ideas of herself who would rather be remembered as Myra Hindley child murderer than not to be remembered
at all the journalist believed it was rubbish that she was under the spell of Brady and determined Hindley played a
much larger role in the crimes than she was letting on in September 1989 Hindley
was told her autobiography wouldn't get published Astor had found the writings awful and so did the publisher Hindley
decided to do a rewrite Hindu Lee said she felt troubled because she wanted to help but she couldn't since she didn't
know where Keith Bennett's burial site was in January 1990 which was the year Hindley could be considered for parole
again Brady sent an open letter to the press where he said Hindley enjoyed the murders and he could prove it with all
the letters they exchanged in their first years of prison he wrote I have the written words of Myra herself in the
shape of six and a half years of her letters written to me after our imprisonment in there she writes
nostalgic ly into lyrically of the murders which she regarded as a substitute marriage ritual but which I
saw as products of an suspenseful Asif II intended with the spiritualism of a death itself
I have only given you a brief glimpse of what occurred 25 years ago those letters
were never released shortly afterwards Brady was taken to a psychiatric ward after he made threats of suicide Brady
began a protest in the form of a hunger strike he was force-fed and closely supervised
Hindley tried to work on her parole again what she didn't know was that the Home Office had already made the
recommendation that she should never be released however this wasn't going to be
announced until 1994 so Hindley prepared herself for parole bid Timms Ernesto got her a therapist the
therapist stated just like toping had that Hindley showed most emotion when talking about Pauline and Lesley
whereas when she spoke about John Keith or Edward she'd do it like she was reading it from a book when the
therapist wrote his final report on Hindley they argued over a particular word she used to describe the crimes
excitement Hindley wanted the word to be removed since it would put her in a bad light
but her therapist insisted it was important and accurate so it would stay Hindley planned a life outside Trisha
Ken's entered her life again in 1989 and at one point she quit her job in Manchester to move to London where she
lived in a house owned by Astor who fully supported their relationship Trisha went as far as taking catalogs of
furniture to choose with Hindley for the life they would share when she was released
although Hindley was having a relationship with another woman at the same time Nina Wilde a dutch criminology
student who was at cookin wood prison as part of a placement scheme she found Hindley to be smart sensitive and good
company the both of them are also banked on Hindley leaving prison and sharing a
life together Hindley when as far as making an official application to live in Amsterdam however she was informed she'd
have to demonstrate her ability to adjust to a British community first Brady continued his campaign to make
sure Hindley would never be released he wrote to the Sunday Mirror and told them
there were more murders they had committed he knew Lee responded to later on my mother's life which I hold
the dearest there are no others not to my knowledge and certainly none that I have taken part in but that's not to say
there aren't any in December 1994 Hindley was informed by the Home Office that her campaign for parole had been in
vain she had been marked never to be released Hindley took the news so badly that she
was put on suicide watch she remained on permanent observation for some time afterwards Hindley's therapist said this
about the news she hoped that somewhere sometime there would be a home secretary
robust enough to put her out there secretly if not openly she firmly believed that she could be given a new
identity she referred to the boys who killed a James Bulger and very often to Mary Belle she felt strongly that what
was good enough for Mary Belle was good enough for her on February 1st 1995 in Dooley wrote to
the Home Office and inform them that due to her treatment in prison she no longer
felt physically or mentally capable of undergoing hypnosis the idea of hypnosis is something that had been proposed by
topping to try and help find Keith Bennett's burial site Hindley was initially open to the idea until she
found out she was never getting released in March 95 in Dooley wrote another letter this time stating she may be open
to hypnosis if she was transferred back to Durham prison in the months that followed Keith's mother Whitney Johnson
spoken negatively to the press about Hindley and her unwillingness to help Hindu Lee told her solicitor the
following she's become as bad as mrs. West if she's so constantly disgusted with or about me why doesn't she ask Ian
Brady to jeopardize his mental health with hypnosis please express my disgust with her in a discreet away as possible
as the year continued the home office dropped the hypnosis idea altogether since they felt Hindley would only
participate if she was given parole on November 14th 1995 Hindley drafted a new appeal petition
and wrote all my years in prison have reinforced my belief for the crimes of any kind are totally destructive not
least for the victims but also for the perpetrators all I would want to do is lead a quiet life keep out of the public
eye perhaps if possible do something quietly useful and then my days in relative obscurity in Julie's
possibility to lead that quiet life came in 1997 when she was appointed a high-profile barrister there was no
coincidence the barrister was married to one of the Lord Longford granddaughters
he applied for a judicial review in Hindley's case the media was all over the story Danni Kilbride John's brother
quit his job to petition against Hindley and managed to collect 40,000 signatures
in ashed and underlined alone from people who believed Hindley should die in prison on December 18th 1997 the
divisional court dismissed the appeal in early 1998 Hindley was transferred to High Point a medium security prison in
Suffolk that same year she wrote an open letter to the press where she gave a whole new version about the crimes and
her relationship with Brady she stated her relationship with Brady was an abusive one where Brady would threaten
rape and hit her she said she was always covered in bruises and bite marks as an
explanation as to why she held Brady with the crimes she said Brady drugged her and took pornographic pictures of
her which he threatened to show everyone she knew if she didn't help him the pictures did exist they'd been found
during the police investigation they showed Hindley in crotchless black pants and her and Brady having sex with
white hoodies that covered their faces I also showed Hindley with whip marks Brady explained that the idea was to
sell them and the whip marks weren't real they were drawn with lipstick he said the photos were taken
consensually Healy said that Brady had also drugged her grin on one occasion and threatened that the next time it
would be her sis than her mother and so on unless she helped India Lee said she applied for a
job in the Navy in Germany to escape Brady but in the end she stayed since she felt she had no choice she named
many other instances of physical and verbal abuse and concluded the following about Pauline read on you I had a choice
I could either just wave at Pauline and drive past her in which case she would have lived and I would have had to enjoy
the consequences of Brady's rage this all happened in split seconds I looked at Pauline and saw my sister there and
my gran and my mum I made the choice of having to sacrifice Pauline so that my own family would be
safe I felt sick with fear and self-loathing as I asked her if she wanted a lift she readily accepted and I
opened the passenger door to the car for her to get in she claimed that after the
killing of Pauline Brady told Hindley she would end up in the grave with her if she tried to back here when they
cleaned up at the house Brady took out a bottle of Drambuie to celebrate and told
her that he'd done it the perfect murder he asked Hindley how she felt about it and she told him she never imagined
something like that happening and began to cry Brady held her and told her he try and
control his temper and Hindley promised she tried not to provoke him then he stroked her hair and Hindley said this
new tenderness touched the core of her heart and she suddenly felt all the love for him she felt in the beginning and it
was this tenderness and love that took place in between the murders that made her help once again before John's murder
when Brady told her that he wanted to do another one but he wanted someone smaller Hindley was reluctant to help so
he strangled her until she agreed Hindley felt as if the pattern of her life had been mapped out but she
couldn't stop loving him nonetheless Brady is adamant that these claims by Hindley are a load of [ __ ] and
Hindley was just as willing as he was in all the murders he responded with an open letter of his own stating that
everything Hindley said was a lie Hindley's therapists also commented and said it was about time that Hindley took
responsibility for her crimes instead of trying to make excuses Hindley and her supporters continued
fighting for her release until the very end Lord Longford and asta both remained
vocal until their deaths in 2001 in 2002 the House of Lords ruled that the Home Secretary should not have the power to
increase prison terms and that the possibility of Hindley being released became a very real one so the Home
Secretary ordered Greater Manchester police to come up with new charges to keep her in prison
Hindley gave an interview soon after this news and said that her only wish was to not die in prison she didn't get
her wish on November 15 2002 at 4:55 p.m. Hindley died in hospital of bronchial pneumonia a radio station
offered 500 pounds to listeners if they could guess the time of her death Hindley died at West Suffolk Hospital
she was transferred there from prison when no health deteriorated the hospital burnt every single item Hindley came
into contact with and had nothing to do with the disease a spokesperson from the
hospital said though urbane quote sensitive to future patients Hindoo his funeral was funded with her estate and
what was the left afterwards reportedly went to charities there were rumours some went to their National Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children just like Hindley had one of the funds from her autobiography to go to but the
Society said they had never saved any funds from Hindley and even if they had they would have immediately returned
them Hindley had requested the presence of twelve close family and friends among
the ones who didn't attend we're Marines widow bill their daughter Sharon and Hindu Lee's mother Nellie because she
was too frail to make the trip at the funeral which took place on November 20th the priests used the story of the
prodigal son from the Bible because he felt she was the prodigal daughter according to him she gone away from the
decency of humanity and from God but somewhere she made the decision to return to us into the church God forgave
her and she became a different person Hindley's ashes were given to trisha cans her former partner who scattered
them at the foot of Saddleworth Moor [Music] both appalling reads parents died before
Hindley Amos in 1996 and Joan in 2001 in one of the last statements Joan gave she
talked about Pauline and said she's not suffering now no one can hurt her now I feel her that close you see that seems
to back me up a lot I feel her so close to me I miss her so much I still do she's my little girl
Sheila kilbride died before Kimberly as well when John was killed she cried for two years straight until his body was
found she also continued setting a plate for him at the table for a very long time when John's brother Danny heard of
Hindley's death he couldn't believe it and he phoned the authorities to see if he could attend the funeral he was told
he would be arrested on the spot if he turned up in the end Danny was just glad Hindley would no longer be pestering for
parole Leslie's mother in West died in 1999 in one of her last interviews she described how Leslie's grave had been
vandalized several times on one occasion someone wrote let Mayra go on her headstone and ended up moving Leslie to
a secret spot she also went to see Robert Spears who'd founded Leslie and gave him a plaque as a thank you for
bringing her daughter back to her before passing away she gave the following message to a journalist for Hindley if
there is such a thing as haunting and ghosts I'll be on her shoulder morning noon and night she'll not get rid of me
Edward Evans family stayed away from the press ever since the trial back in 1966
Winnie Johnson cried when Hindley died and said quote and every opportunity I begged Hindley to tell me exactly where
Kate's grave was but in my heart I knew she was a wicked sadist who would never tell and would take a terrible secret to
the grave David Smith moved to Ireland with meri in 1994 to start a new life they continued to face the wrath of the
public and press over the years David said this wrath is what led to the destruction of him and Maureen but with
Mary and made them stronger when he found out Hindley died he felt relief Mary on the other hand cried because she
believed the entire media and public outcry would start all over again Brady saw the news from Ashworth
hospital where he was being kept in the psychiatric ward when he heard he remained sitting still instead at the
television with an expressionless face in 2013 Brady was denied a transfer to a prison he's been trying for years to be
moved to a prison in Scotland because he wouldn't get force-fed there his wishes
to die of starvation in 2003 the search for Keith in the Moors resumed under the
name operation mayita detectives visited Brady but like before and led nowhere they searched mostly at Shani Brook
using the information from the previous searches and Bradys photographs after a few years the operation came to an end
in 2012 a broken Spade was found believed to be related to the burial of Keith and recently a double-barreled
shotgun was found with gun cartridges lengths of rope plastic sheeting a motorcycle glove and a hunting knife
under rocks in subtle worth more David Smith died in 2012 aged 64 he was vilified throughout his entire life but
as one detective put it he was a bit of a rum customer but if it hadn't been for
Smith more children would have been killed Evans would have ended up on the moor
and the way would never have been any wiser one of the last statements David Smith gave was at Saddleworth Moor and
it was directed at Brady he said no one should lie in an unmarked grave do you understand what I'm saying no child
should be without a headstone when they die the very least you can give them is that somewhere for their family to visit
a stretch of Blake filled with no one knowing they're there it isn't right I think you understand I hope you do
Keith's mother Winnie Johnson died in 2012 after her death Kate's brother Allen wrote the following on his website
searching for Keith calm as far as I'm concerned until Keith is found then he is still in the possession of Brady and
Hindley our fear as a family is that now my mother is no longer with us this may
be seen by the police in the media as some sort of closure to the case this must not be allowed to happen both out
of respect for Keith and my mother's memory and for those who love them both police are still hopeful they will find
a Keith over the years some detectives have described the Bradys attention to detail and cleaning up forensic evidence
put him as much as twenty years ahead of his time for many years the name Mara was banned in the UK not officially of
course but mother's refused to name their daughters Mara because of the public outrage in Billie cause in 2001
Brady published the gates of Janus a book about the psychology behind serial killers in order to illustrate how a
person feels about the crime they committed he quoted a poem by WH Auden called the too many believed Brady used this
poem to describe himself and Hindley the two by WH Auden you are the town and where the clock we are the guardians of
the gate in the rock the two on your left and on your right in the day ending the night we are watching you
why is it doctor asked just what has occurred to them who disobeyed our word to those we were the whirlpool we were
the reef we were the formal nightmare grief ended the unlucky rose climb up the crane learn the sailor's words when
the ships from the islands laden with birds come in tell your stories of fishing and other men's wives the
expensive moments of constricted lives in the lighted in but do not imagine we do not know nor that what you hide with
such care won't show at a glance nothing is done nothing is said but don't make the mistake of believing us that I
shouldn't dance we're afraid in that case you'll have a fall we've been watching you over the garden wall for
hours the sky is darkening like a steam something is going to fall like rain and
it won't be flawless when the green field comes off like a lid revealing what was much better hid
unpleasant and look behind you without a sound the woods have come up understanding round in deadly present
the bolt is sliding in its groove outside the window is the black remove has been and now with sudden Swift
emergence come the women in dark glasses and humpback surgeons and this is his man this might happen any day so be
careful what you say or do be clean be tidy oiled the lock trim the garden wind the clock remember the two
Brady's former psychiatrist professor Malcolm McCulloch has suggested that when Brady was taken to the Moors in
1987 in an attempt to find Kate's body it could have been nothing more than an attempt by Brady to exercise further
control over his victims families and that it's more than possible Brady checked on the gravesite while he
was there but didn't point it out McCulloch said quote final control is possession of the body I know you don't
know you want to know and I'm not going to tell you [Music] you

Case 49: The Moors Murders (Part 3)

[Part 3 of 3]

(A recap of part two)

Brady and Hindley continued their killing spree, murdering Keith Bennett on the 16th of June 1964, seven months after the murder of John Kilbride. Two months later Hindley’s sister Maureen married David Smith…

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Narration – Anonymous Host Research and writing – Victoria Dieffenbacher Production, scoring – Mike Migas Additional scoring – Andrew Joslyn

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Brief Summary

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's murders, trial, and impact on victims' families are detailed in this episode.

Key points

Discovery of Edward Evans' Murder. David witnesses the shocking murder of Edward Evans by Brady, leading to police involvement.
The Emotional Identification of John Kilbride. Sheila Kilbride identifies her son's body, a moment filled with grief and horror.
Tension in the Courtroom. Brady and Hindley face an angry crowd during their court appearance, heightening public outrage.
Hindley's Testimony. Hindley admits her fondness for Brady during her testimony, complicating her defense.
The Verdict. Brady and Hindley are found guilty of multiple murders, leading to life sentences.
Hindley's Relationship with Brady. Hindley struggles with her feelings for Brady while in prison, leading to a complex correspondence.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I know it meant we were able to have a burial.

Danni Kilbride reflects on finding his brother's body.

13:39WatchNov 19, 2018

Tension

75/ 100High tension

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