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Myra Hindley was born in Crumpsall on 23 July 1942 [17] [18] to parents Nellie and Bob Hindley, and raised in Gorton, then a working-class area of Manchester dominated by Victorian slum housing. Her father was an alcoholic who was frequently violent towards his wife and children. The family home was in poor condition, and Hindley was forced to ...
Tragedy strikes when Angela dies of cot-death at the age of six months, and Maureen turns to her older sister, Myra, for comfort, while David finds friendship in Myra's boyfriend, Ian Brady. David and Maureen know nothing of the secrets harboured by Brady and Hindley.
Pike then hit Slemmer in the head with a piece of asphalt, killing her, and kept a piece of her skull as a trophy. For testifying against the others, Peterson got a six-year suspended sentence. Shipp received life in prison, but will be eligible for parole in 2028. Pike was sentenced to death, becoming Tennessee's youngest death row inmate.
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She has joined the list of the UK’s most twisted child killers, including the Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley and the so-called Angel of Death paediatric nurse Beverley Allitt. More ...
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.
2010, One of Your Own: The Life and Death of Myra Hindley (Edinburgh: Mainstream). 2011, with David Smith. Witness: The Story of David Smith, Chief Prosecution Witness in the Moors Murders Case (Edinburgh: Mainstream); [4] published in 2012 as Evil Relations: The Man Who Bore Witness Against the Moors Murderers (Edinburgh: Mainstream).