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The Moors murders were a series of child killings committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in and around Manchester, England, between July 1963 and October 1965.The victims were five children—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans—aged between 10 and 17, at least four of whom were sexually assaulted.
The moor was the burial site of at least four victims of the serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley; consequently, the murders they committed became known as the Moors murders. In October 1965, following their arrest for the murder of Edward Evans in Hattersley , the bodies of Lesley Ann Downey and John Kilbride were discovered buried on the ...
Ian Brady is in custody following his arrest, and has already admitted murdering Edward Evans. However, Myra Hindley is still at liberty, as police begin a murder investigation. David Smith tells police that he recalls Brady's claims that he has committed murders in the past, and buried the bodies on nearby Saddleworth Moor. Brady and Hindley ...
With accomplice Myra Hindley, he buried the children in shallow graves on Saddleworth Moor. From being declared insane in 1985 until his death he was held in a mental hospital and was on long-term hunger strike, which led to him being force-fed through a tube. In 2001, he published a book on serial killing. The body of one of his victims, 12 ...
More recently it housed, in 1966, Moors murderess Myra Hindley; in 1967, Kim Newell, a Welsh woman who was involved in the Red Mini Murder; also in the late 1960s, National Socialist supporter Françoise Dior, charged with arson against synagogues; in 1977, American Joyce McKinney of the "Manacled Mormon case"; between 1991 and 1993, Michelle ...
Victims of the so-called "Moors murderers" Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, who sexually assaulted, murdered and then buried their underage victims in shallow graves. Four of the victims' gravesites were eventually discovered, with the only exception being Bennett's, whose body still has not been found.
He was lured away from the town's market on 23 November 1963 by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley before being murdered and buried on Saddleworth Moor. His body was found in October 1965. Ashton became a part of the newly formed Metropolitan Borough of Tameside in 1974. [52]
Myra Hindley and Ian Brady abducted Keith Bennett, a 12-year-old boy. [83] ... Under the direction of Deputy Price, the three were buried in an earthen dam. [112]