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

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In 1985, Brady allegedly told Fred Harrison, a journalist working for The Sunday People, that he had killed Reade and Bennett, [129] something the police already suspected as both lived near Brady and Hindley and had disappeared at about the same time as Kilbride and Downey. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) reopened the investigation, now to be headed by Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Topping, head of GMP's Criminal Investigation Department (CID). [130] Longest-serving female prisoner Maria Pearson jailed for Hartlepool murder bids to be released". ITV News. 16 February 2023 . Retrieved 7 May 2023.

The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around what is now Greater Manchester, England. Both Brady and Hindley entered pleas of not guilty; [118] Brady testified for over eight hours, Hindley for six. [119] Brady admitted to striking Evans with the axe, but claimed that someone else had killed Evans, pointing to the pathologist's statement that his death had been "accelerated by strangulation"; Brady's "calm, undisguised arrogance did not endear him to the jury [and] neither did his pedantry", wrote Duncan Staff. [120] Hindley denied any knowledge that the photographs of Saddleworth Moor found by police had been taken near the graves of their victims. [121]Moors Murders: Donations fund search for Keith Bennett", BBC News, 27 March 2010 , retrieved 27 March 2010 Busby, Mattha (3 November 2017). "Police kept body parts of Moors murders victim without family's knowledge". The Guardian . Retrieved 28 October 2021. Although Brady refused to work with Ashworth's psychiatrists, he occasionally corresponded with people outside the hospital‍—‌subject to prison authorities' censorship [179]‍—‌ including Lord Longford, writer Colin Wilson, and various journalists. [180] In one letter, written in 2005, Brady claimed that the murders were "merely an existential exercise of just over a year, which was concluded in December 1964". By then, he claimed, he and Hindley had turned their attention to armed robbery, for which they had begun to prepare by acquiring guns and vehicles. [d] [182] Hearing Of Moors Murder Case In Camera", The Times, no.56498, Times Digital Archive, 7 December 1965, p.6 , retrieved 25 September 2009

Myra Hindley Loses Murder Appeal", The Times, no.56765, Times Digital Archive, 18 October 1966, p.1 , retrieved 25 September 2009 From Myra Hindley to Three Girls: Maxine Peake's life and career", The Daily Telegraph, 15 May 2017, archived from the original on 11 January 2022, ITV was preparing to make a film about the aftermath of the Moors Murders Moors Murders: Search for Keith Bennett's body restarts". BBC News. 30 September 2022 . Retrieved 1 October 2022.Moors Murders: Search for Keith Bennett's body restarts". BBC News. 30 September 2020 . Retrieved 30 September 2020. Easton, Mark (20 May 2017), "Ian Brady: How the Moors Murderer came to symbolise pure evil", BBC News , retrieved 14 February 2018, Margaret Thatcher described their crimes as "the most hideous and evil in modern times". Police dig for Moors victim Keith Bennett after skull reportedly found". The Guardian. 30 September 2022 . Retrieved 30 September 2022. a b Dyer, C. (18 March 2000), "Force feeding of Ian Brady declared lawful", BMJ, 320 (7237): 731, doi: 10.1136/bmj.320.7237.731/a, PMC 1117753, PMID 10720341 The pair then discussed committing crimes together, daydreaming about robberies that would make them rich. But they ultimately decided that murder was more their style and in 1963 took the life of their first victim: Pauline Reade.