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Their living situation deteriorated further when Hindley's younger sister, Maureen, was born in August 1946. The following year, five-year-old Myra was sent to live nearby with her grandmother. [19] Hindley's father had served with the Parachute Regiment and was stationed in North Africa, Cyprus and Italy during the Second World War. [20]
The serial tells the story of the Moors murders, which were committed, between July 1963 and October 1965, by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. The narrative is from the viewpoint of Hindley's sister, Maureen Smith, and her husband David.
Hindley's striking mug shot from 1965 was published repeatedly in the media until her death. The popular song "Suffer Little Children", released by The Smiths in 1984 to commemorate the murders, caused a brief media controversy until the mother of one of the victims voiced her support for the band.
Also in 2006, Froggatt played the sister of Myra Hindley in the ITV drama See No Evil: The Moors Murders. She later appeared in another controversial role as the title character in Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback, which first aired on Channel Ten in Australia on 18 March 2007, and was screened in Britain on ITV on 8 April 2007. [3]
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Book cover of Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and Its Detection by Emlyn Williams. Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and its Detection (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1967) (1968 paperback: ISBN 978-0-330-02088-6) is a semi-fictionalized account of the Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, by the Welsh author and playwright, Emlyn Williams.
Maria Pearson (born 12 March 1956), also known as the "UK's forgotten inmate" or the "forgotten prisoner" [2] [3] is a British convicted murderer who is notable for being the United Kingdom's longest-serving female prisoner. [4]
Myra Lewis Williams, also known as Myra Gale Brown, was the third wife of late rock ’n' roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and — more infamously — his 13-year-old cousin at the time they got married.