Moors Murders

Author : Fred Harrison
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781504036757

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Brady and Hindley by Fred Harrison Pdf

The shocking true crime story of child murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Great Britain’s most horrific serial killers. During the early 1960s, just as Beatlemania was exploding throughout the United Kingdom, a pair of psychopathic British killers began preying on the very young, innocent, and helpless of Greater Manchester. Between 1963 and 1965, Ian Brady and his lover and partner, Myra Hindley, were responsible for the abduction, rape, torture, and murder of five young victims, ranging in age from ten to seventeen years old. The English press dubbed the grisly series of homicides “the Moors Murders,” named for the desolate landscape where three of the corpses were eventually discovered. Based in part on the author’s face-to-face prison interviews with the killers, Fred Harrison’s fascinating and disturbing true crime masterwork digs deeply into Brady and Hindley’s personal histories to examine the factors that led to their mutual attraction and their evolution into the UK’s most notorious pair of human monsters. It was during these interviews that new details about the killers’ terrible crimes surfaced, compelling the police to reopen what was arguably the most shocking and sensational homicide case in the annuls of twentieth-century British crime. With a new introduction by the author, meticulously researched and compellingly written, Brady and Hindley is the definitive account of Britain’s most hated serial killers.

Author : Alan Keightley
Publisher : Robson
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781907554964

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Ian Brady by Alan Keightley Pdf

Since May 1966 when Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were sentenced to life imprisonment at Chester Assizes the British public has been absorbed and horrified by the Moors Murders. Ian Brady has often been aptly described as ‘the most evil man alive’ or ‘the Daddy of the Devils’, while Myra Hindley, Britain’s first female serial killer, became the most hated woman in Britain. Here is the definitive account, drawing on exclusive, never-before-seen material. It changes forever our understanding of the Moors couple and their heinous crimes. Why did they do it? What actually happened? Unlikely as it may appear to those detectives, psychiatrists, authors, criminologists, journalists and the victims’ families, who have all sought in their own ways for decades to discover it, this book is possibly as near as we shall ever get to understanding how the victims died. It proves beyond question that the parents of the victims were right all along in their claims about Hindley’s part in the murders. Did Brady give an account to anyone of his life, Myra Hindley and their crimes before he died? Yes, he did - here it is.

Author : Erica Gregory
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781491880739

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The Secret Key to the Moors Murders by Erica Gregory Pdf

Ever wondered what really goes on in the mind of a serial killer? What drove Ian Brady to his crimes? Have we discovered Bradys hidden code? Our extensive research into these murders may have given us something others may have overlooked. Was Myra Hindley a genuine victim of Brady's ideas as she has previously stated? Was she just his partner in crime? Perhaps she may have taken it a step further. Brady told David Smith he was making a "Story to impress". He wasn't making a story, he was living it. In this book, we believe we may hold the true answers to the endless questions circling this brutal case.

Author : Emlyn Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Murder
ISBN : OCLC:1193354830

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Beyond Belief by Emlyn Williams Pdf

Author : Jonathan GOODMAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1858135397

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Moors Murders by Jonathan GOODMAN Pdf

Author : Ian Brady
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781627310147

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The Gates of Janus by Ian Brady Pdf

To understand human character, one must first explore the depraved reaches of human consciousness

Author : Ian Cummins,Marian Foley,Martin King
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030048761

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Serial Killers and the Media by Ian Cummins,Marian Foley,Martin King Pdf

This book examines the media and cultural responses to the awful crimes of Brady and Hindley, whose murders provided a template for future media reporting on serial killers. It explores a wide variety of topics relating to the Moors Murders case including: the historical and geographical context of the murders, the reporting of the case and the unique features which have become standard for other murder cases e.g. nicknames for the serial killers, and it discusses the nature of evil and psychopaths and how they are represented in film, drama, novels and art. It also questions the ethics of the “serial killing industry” and how the modern cultural fixation on celebrity has extended to serial killers, and it explores the impact on the journalists and police officers from being involved in such cases including some interviews with them. The treatment of Brady and Hindley by the media also raises profound questions about the nature of punishment including the links between mental illness and crime and whether there is ever the prospect of redemption. This book draws on cultural studies, criminology, sociology and socio-legal studies to offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the impact of this case and then uses this as a basis for the analysis of more recent cases such as the crimes of Peter Sutcliffe and Harold Shipman.

Author : David Smith,Carol Ann Lee
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780575394

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Evil Relations by David Smith,Carol Ann Lee Pdf

Despite standing as chief prosecution witness in the Moors Murders trial, David Smith was vilified by the public due to the accusations thrown at him by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady about his involvement in their crimes.

Author : Chris Cook
Publisher : Pen and Sword True Crime
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781399098762

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The Moors Murderers by Chris Cook Pdf

A deep dive into the lives and crimes of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley—featuring newly released photos from a collection called “The Tartan Album.” In the mid-1960s, the serenity of Saddleworth Moor was forever interrupted, even if people didn’t yet know it, as the area became a grave for the innocent child victims of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. The couple’s vile torture and killings have shaken up British history ever since, with the couple often considered two of the most evil people to have lived. However, the public still have many questions about who they were and how their dysfunctional relationship operated. In this book, many artifacts become public for the first time, including photographs from Ian Brady’s “Tartan Album,” police interviews and witness statements, which shed vital new light on Brady, Hindley and the dangerous cocktail their union became. “The research—wow, the research—is painstaking and impeccable, allowing a well-constructed narrative that takes the reader in a tried and tested winning formula chronologically through each of the pair’s crimes . . . THE most fascinating study of what many consider to be the most disturbing crimes of the twentieth century that I have ever read—and for me, it has now replaced Devil’s Disciples, and even the canonical, Beyond Belief as THE definitive study of Brady and Hindley.” —The True Crime Enthusiast

Author : Emlyn Williams
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult MM
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992-06-01
Category : Murder
ISBN : 0330020889

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Beyond Belief by Emlyn Williams Pdf

This is a look at Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, the Moors Murderers. The text covers the murders, their perpetrators and the detection that led to Brady and Hindley's arrest.

Author : Carol Ann Lee,David Smith
Publisher : Mainstream
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1845967399

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Witness by Carol Ann Lee,David Smith Pdf

In the half-light of early morning on October 7, 1965, 17-year-old David Smith called Hyde police from a telephone box on Hattersley overspill estate in Manchester. The story that he had to tell--of the brutal murder he had witnessed the previous evening--set in motion the detection of Britain's most infamous serial killings: the Moors Murders. Despite standing as chief prosecution witness at the subsequent trial, David Smith was vilified and hated by a public who knew nothing of the facts behind the accusations thrown at Smith by the killers themselves in an attempt to gain lesser sentences. Myra Hindley's own confession, 20 years later, that she and Ian Brady had lied about Smith's involvement in their crimes, did little to diminish the slurs against his name. For almost 45 years, David Smith has been asked by writers and filmmakers to tell his story. With the exception of no more than a handful of very brief interviews, he has refused. Carol Ann Lee met Smith during her research for One of Your Own, her critically acclaimed biography of Hindley, following which he finally agreed to reveal all regarding the case and his involvement in it. In Witness, interviews, archival research, and, most significantly, David Smith's own vivid memories are fused to create an unforgettable, often harrowing account of his life before, during, and after the Moors Murders.

Author : Alan R Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1777259444

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Moors Murders; Ian Brady & Myra Hindley by Alan R Warren Pdf

Author : Dirk C. Gibson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780313080982

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Serial Murder and Media Circuses by Dirk C. Gibson Pdf

The Axman of New Orleans specialized in killing grocers of Italian descent in the 1910s, apparently to promote jazz music. Dorothea Puente was a little old landlady who murdered her tenants, but kept cashing their government checks. The Manson Family terrorized California in the 1960s, as did the Hillside Stranglers a decade later. Twelve serial murder cases, occurring in eight decades between the 1890s and 1990s, had one thing in common: significant presence of the mass media. This book examines these specific cases of serial murder, and the way the media became involved in the investigations and trials of each. Gibson argues that the American media plays a multidimensional and integral role in serial killings and their investigation—and that this role is not generally a positive one. Serial murder cases motivate the media in unfortunate ways, and the result is that even typically respectable media organizations can be involved in such things as document theft, or in interfering with the capture of serial murderers on the run. This link between multiple murderers and mass communication is not accidental or coincidental; rather, the relationship between the press and serial killers is one of extraordinary importance to both parties. Gibson examines the role of the media in serial murder cases; the body of knowledge on serial murder as seen through the lens of mass communication; the effectiveness of law enforcement responses to serial murderers and how they might be improved if the mass communication influence was better understood; the magnitude of the serial murder problem; and the interaction between the media, the killers, and serial murder investigations. Specific examples and numerous quotes are provided throughout to illustrate this strange and detrimental relationship between media and serial murderers.

Author : Ann West
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Murder
ISBN : 0751503681

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For the Love of Lesley by Ann West Pdf

The death of Lesley Ann Downey at the hands of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in 1964 conferred a life sentence on her mother, who tells her story in this book. It has been updated to include further correspondence with Brady, and Hindley's threat to seek freedom via the European Court.

Author : Terry West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1907954724

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If Only by Terry West Pdf

On Boxing Day 1964 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey left home to go to the fair. Her older brother, Terry did not go with her because he was ill with flu. Not accompanying her on that fateful day would haunt Terry for the rest of his life. Lesley was abducted by Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. This is their heart-breaking story, told by Terry. This fascinating and tragic story also includes family photographs and letters from Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.