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	The Moors Murders
		The Moors Murders is a notorious case which unfolded in what is now known as Greater Manchester, England in the mid-1960s.
		The case became dubbed The Moors Murders as the bodies of the latter victims were revealed to be and, in three out of the four cases, recovered from bleak, deserted moorland in the hills above East Manchester.
		Their involvement in the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett was not revealed until the mid-1980s, when the activities of a journalist and a senior police officer brought about confessions from both.
	freespace.virgin.net /greg.taylor1/moors.html (766 words)

	Learn more about Moors murders in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Moors murders is the name given to a series of child murders in the United Kingdom carried out by Myra Hindley and her lover Ian Brady, from 1963 to 1965.
		The children were killed and buried on Saddleworth Moor, near Manchester, and hence the case is known as the Moors Murders.
		The Moors Murderers have not been released from prison, in part because of massive public revulsion against their crimes, arguably driven to some extent by the British tabloid press.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /m/mo/moors_murders.html (411 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| The Moors murders
		The Moors murders were a series of crimes that shocked Britain when they first came to light.
		Brady murdered the youth with an axe in the front room of the house while David Smith, Myra's brother-in-law, was there.
		Hindley and Brady finally admitted the killings, and Saddleworth Moor was sealed off while they returned to the scene of their crimes and attempted to help police pinpoint the graves of the two children.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/659266.stm (438 words)

	Snows on the Moors
		Hindley was charged with the murder of Evans and Downey and of harboring Brady in connection with his murder of Kilbride.) The trial derived its sobriquet from the fact that the victims' bodies were discovered buried on the moors near Manchester.
		Miss Johnson is tempted to determine that one of the murderers was the dominant partner in the psychological deterioration of the couple, and she eventually fixes upon Brady.
		She places the Moors crimes in the category of "the corporate murder, by two or more people of two or more people." On the basis of the number of victims, she distinguishes the case from that of Loeb and Leopold and suggests a similarity to the activities of medieval covens.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/lsf/29-2/snows.html (6577 words)

	Myra Hindley
		Myra Hindley (July 23, 1942 - November 15, 2002) was an English woman, one of the Moors Murderers, jailed for murder in 1966.
		They were killed and buried on Saddleworth Moor, near Manchester, and hence the case is known as the Moors murders.
		The Moors Murders: The Trial of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, Jonathan Goodman, David & Charles 1986, ISBN 0715390643
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/my/Myra_Hindley.html (214 words)

	Ian Brady - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brady is known primarily for his role in a series of murders that took place in Greater Manchester between 1963 and 1965.
		This meant that a murderer was liable to be detained for the whole of his or her natural life, but could be released on life licence when no longer judged to be a risk.
		Hindley was found guilty of murdering Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans and given two life sentences; she also received a concurrent seven-year sentence for harbouring Brady in connection with the murder of John Kilbride.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ian_Brady (2445 words)

	:: SCAN \| journal of media arts culture :: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On 6 th May 1966, at the age of 23, Hindley was found guilty of two murders (the deaths of Downey and Evans) and of being an accessory to the murder of a third person (Kilbride).
		The story of Myra Hindley, a convicted murderer who became a monster, is a narrative of the body, and in a sense she haunted me for quite some time.
		Firstly, it is essential to acknowledge the extent of public anger produced by the deaths of the children in the Moors case, both at the time of their trial and in the years since.
	scan.net.au /scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=40 (7074 words)

	National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com)
		A school janitor has now been charged with their murders and, in a horrible echo of the "Moors Murders" four decades ago, his girlfriend is suspected of complicity in their deaths.
		In the British debates of the 1970s over whether or not terrorist murderers should face execution, I well remember being assured by politicians who later served as Northern Ireland ministers that convicted murderers would have to serve their full sentence; for there was simply no legal way of releasing them beforehand.
		Yet we hear little or no mention of their exact equivalent on the other side of the argument — namely, murders committed by those who have already committed a murder, served their sentence, and been released to murder again (or who have murdered an inmate or guard in prison.) That is curious.
	www.nationalreview.com /script/printpage.p?ref=/jos/jos083002.asp (1825 words)

	Manchester Criminals and Murderers of Manchester
		Their trail of murder was brought to an end eventually by Hindley's brother-in-law, David Smith, who called the police after he witnessed the murder of Edward Evans.
		Shipman became the focus of Europe's biggest ever murder investigation when it came to light that he was suspected of systematically killing many of his older patients over a period of 14 years.
		Habitual murderer by poisoning, Mary Ann Britland of Ashton-under-Lyne was hanged by James Berry on the 9th of August 1886, the first woman to be executed at Strangeways Prison in Manchester.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /celebs/murderers-manchester.html (2748 words)

	Murder on the Moors: The Ian Brady and Myra Hindley Story - Crime Library
		Myra reluctantly gave him a key to the upstairs bedroom, the only room in the house that was locked, where the body of a young man was found wrapped in a grey blanket.
		The axe described by Smith as the murder weapon was found in the same room.
		A twelve-year-old girl, Pat Hodge, told police that she had often gone with Hindley and Brady up to the moors on picnics, and numerous photos of the moors were found in their home.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/moors/index_1.html (1222 words)

	How a child killer seen as pure evil came to look forward to heaven - smh.com.au
		It was last Wednesday afternoon and Myra Hindley, the Moors murderer who so callously took part in the killing of five young people in a murder rampage in the 1960s, was two days from death.
		Hindley maintained to the last that she was deeply remorseful for the murders she had committed.
		Atthough Hindley was taken to Saddleworth Moor, where all the bodies were buried, she said she was unable to find the spot where Keith's body lay.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/11/18/1037599362853.html (673 words)

	Morrissey-solo
		Myra Hindley, co-conspirator of the now-legendary and brutal Moor Murders outside Manchester in the mid-1960's, has died in prison at age 60.
		Moors Murderer Myra Hindley, the subject of The Smiths' Suffer Little Children, has had the last rites administered to her in a hospital near Highpoint Prison, Suffolk where she has been for 36 years.
		Myra Hindley and Ian Brady were sentenced for life for the Moors murders, and responsable for killing 3 [4] young children, and recorded the children's cry for help.
	www.morrissey-solo.com /index.pl?issue=20021117 (1194 words)

	H2G2 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Moors murders shocked the public like few other crimes of modern times.
		The case is fixed in the memory of anyone old enough to remember the terrible search on Saddleworth Moor, as police officers with spades looked for the graves of missing children.
		The slayings became known as the ' Moors Murders ', because the bodies of four of the victims had been buried on Saddleworth Moor, near Manchester.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/pda/A10177355?s_id=1 (141 words)

	CyberSleuths - the Reality of Crime News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Horse breeder was a victim of murder, officer believes -- (The Toronto Star) The police officer who sparked a reopening of the investigation into the death of John Sikura says he believes someone murdered the prominent horse breeder and an inquest may be the only way to uncover the truth.
		New York murder suspect caught in New Orleans - (Nola) A man wanted for killing a fellow ex-convict in New York state was arrested in New Orleans for a string of nine armed robberies, police said.
		Florida woman may face murder for beating - (LA Times) Delta Sue Allen, 33, was charged with attempted murder, robbery with a deadly weapon and aggravated battery in the February attack on Barrett at St. Anne's Church in the panhandle town of Brownsville.
	www.cybersleuths.com /news/00__2002news/01012002.4928.htm (1839 words)

	Brady and Hindley (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brady was charged with the murder of John Kilbride, Edward Evans and Lesley Ann Downey.
		Hindley was charged with the murder of Edward Evans and Lesley Ann Downey, and harbouring Brady after the murder of John Kilbride.
		The murder of Lesley Ann Downey created a particularly strong reaction from the public.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /ruth.buddell/brady.htm (367 words)

	Myra Hindley dead - smh.com.au
		That is the time it took to play a scratchy tape-recording that captured the screams, pleas and whimpers of 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey as she neared her death at the hands of Hindley and Ian Brady.
		The tape, recorded by the couple for their private entertainment, embodies the unique wickedness at the heart of the Moors Murders case and explains why, after decades in which the crimes of Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe and mass killer Fred West have come to light, it retains an unparalleled power to shock.
		What distinguished the Moors case from all that had gone before was the involvement of his girlfriend, Myra Hindley, a seemingly pitiless and emotionless 23-year-old shorthand typist, in the joint killings of two children and a teenager.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/11/16/1037080963613.html (599 words)

	Moors murders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On the moor, Brady subjected John Kilbride to a sexual assault and attempted to slit his neck with a knife with a six inch serrated blade, but it didn't work, so Brady strangled him to death with a piece of string, possibly a shoelace, and buried his body in a shallow grave.
		He subsequently confessed to the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett in 1986 and has since made it clear that he never wants to be released from prison.
		The real-life disappearances of Pauline Reade and John Kilbride form the backdrop for the ficticious child abduction plot of Val McDermid's 1999 novel "A Place of Execution", which is set in late 1963.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moors_murders (4123 words)

	Val McDermid - Interviews
		For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted inspector, it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case: a murder with no body, an investigation with more dead ends and closed faces than he'd have found in the anonymity of the inner city - and an outcome which reverberates down the years.
		The Moors murders, of course, have stayed firmly in the minds of the British public.
		For example, the other night I watched a news bulletin that detailed the process of the Jill Dando murder inquiry, right down to explaining exactly how the murder squad was broken down into teams, each of which had a particular area of investigation.
	www.valmcdermid.com /pages/interviews.html (2317 words)

	IAN BRADY BIO IN THE SERIAL KILLER CALENDAR
		When he told her there was no God, she stopped going to church, and when he told her that rape and murder were not wrong, that in fact murder was the "supreme pleasure," she did not question it.
		Myra Hindley was found guilty of the murders of Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans and for harbouring Brady in the knowledge that he had killed John Kilbride.
		In her description of Lesley Ann Downey's murder, Hindley again places herself away from the scene at the moment of death, claiming that she had been in the bathroom when Brady raped, then strangled her.
	serialkillercalendar.com /IANBRADY.HTML (10710 words)

	Find Keith Bennett - Articles - 06/05/06 - 40 years on Moors Murders still haunt us
		THE horror of the Moors Murders continues to echo down the decades today on the 40th anniversary of the end of the trial of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
		Back in 1966, meanwhile, detectives from Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester worked to bring the Moors Murderers to justice by compiling a comprehensive dossier of evidence, some of which was so graphic people in court were moved to tears.
		Proof of the strong feelings regarding the murderous pair were exemplified in a tabloid newspaper front page after her death which read, "Hooray old Hindley's gone to hell".
	www.bernardomahoney.com /keithbennett/articles/40yommshu.shtml (694 words)

	See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A vivid drama that documents the notorious "Moors murderers", Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
		Sean Harris and Maxine Peake really bring the monsters that were the Moors Murderers to life.
		Harris is fantastically disturbing,chilling and creepy as the ultimate manipulator and chief instigator of the most infamous series of murders in the last century.
	us.imdb.com /rg/title-lhs/title-next/title/tt0491807 (349 words)

	Hindley & Brady: too evil for tv? - [Sunday Herald]
		Britain is still gripped by the memory of the Moors murders and only Jack the Ripper has a similar place in the nation’s psyche.
		“The murders happened in the 1960s when children could play freely in the streets, people didn’t lock their doors, when the concept and notion of a serial killer wasn’t going to be thought of or defined for another 15 years,” says McKay.
		This month marks the 40th anniversary of their trial at Chester Assizes – Brady was arraigned on three counts of murder, Hindley on two – and with the passing of this fourth decade there is, perhaps, a feeling that some sort of watershed has been reached.
	www.sundayherald.com /55625 (1913 words)

	The Sun Online - News: Haunted by Moors killers
		But the letter falls short of a pledge to excavate areas of Saddleworth Moor near Manchester where 12-year-old Keith was killed and buried by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in the 1960s.
		When the Moors Murders trial started in April 1966, few people were prepared for in-depth coverage of subjects that had been taboo up until then — murder for pleasure and child sex.
		She had identified her child’s remains after they were found in a shallow Moors grave and she had listened to the tape.
	www.thesun.co.uk /article/0,,2-2006080539,00.html (1702 words)

	True Crime Books
		I feel that Douglas is too close to this case to be truly objective (he was brought in by the Ramseys' attorneys to give his opinion as to whether or not he thought either one of them could have killed JonBenet; he does not think that either is guilty).
		It assesses the impact of serial murder on the families of victims and on the communities where it occurs.
		From over 200 individual murder cases a pattern emerges of two main categories of deadly females: those who kill for the classic motives of greed, jealousy, lust and revenge; and those for whom murder is a last resort after years of male suppression and violence.
	www.murraymoffatt.com /books-crime.html (2378 words)

	Moors Murders Cartoons
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		Moors Murders cartoon 1 - catalog reference ksmn59
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	ZEFRANK.COM - message board - Unhappy Anniversary
		Today is the 40th anniversary of their conviction, for the Moors Murders.
		The chlidren they killed, and buried on the moors, were aged 17, 10, and 12.
		I was brought up near Manchester and lived there for a long time, so this is literally too close to home for me. You can't look at Saddleworth Moor (which by the way is quite eerily beautiful) without thinking about the horrific murders.
	www.zefrank.com /bulletin/showthread.php?t=9426 (220 words)

	South Manchester Reporter - Moors Murder mum welcomes TV drama (Site not responding. Last check: )
		THE mother of Moors Murder victim Keith Bennett has praised the makers of an ITV drama about the gruesome killings.
		Winnie Johnson, who now lives in Fallowfield, watched See No Evil: The Moors Murders at a private screening for relatives of the children, who were murdered by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady.
		The story is approached from a new angle, focusing more on the relationship between Myra, her sister Maureen and her husband, rather than the murders themselves.
	www.southmanchesterreporter.co.uk /news/s/212/212829_moors_murder_mum_welcomes_tv_drama.html (1032 words)

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