'Moors Murderer' Myra Hindley used to promote London Olympics in 2012

gogglebok wrote: »

It's not a clip of the Moors murders, though. It's a shot of a painting in a major London gallery. Just as Dali's Crucifixion in the Prado could be taken to represent Madrid rather than Judaea.

Silverfish wrote: »

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE



It wasn't 'used to promote' London, it was a brief shot of a painting in a London gallery.

But HYSTERIA IS MUCH MORE FUN RAR RAR RAR.



sigh.

Pauline Reade
Their first victim was 16-year-old Pauline Reade (born 18 February 1947), a neighbour of Hindley's, who disappeared on her way to a dance in Crumpsall on 12 July 1963. She got into a car with Hindley while Brady secretly followed behind on his motorbike. When the van reached Saddleworth Moor, Hindley stopped the van and got out before asking Reade to help her find a missing glove in exchange for some records. They were busy "searching" the moors when Brady pounced on Reade and fractured her skull with a shovel. He then raped her before slitting her throat with a knife; her spinal cord was severed and she was almost decapitated. Brady then buried her body in a grave only three feet deep. It was not discovered until 1 July 1987, shortly before the 24th anniversary of her death.[1]


[edit] John Kilbride
On November 23, 1963, Brady and Hindley struck again. The victim was 12-year-old John Kilbride (born 15 May 1951). When he was approached by Hindley at a market in Ashton-under-Lyne, Kilbride agreed to go with her to help carry some boxes. Brady was sitting in the back of Ford Anglia car that Hindley had hired. When they reached the moors, he took the child with him while Hindley waited in the car. On the moor, Brady subjected Kilbride to a sexual assault and attempted to slit his throat with a six-inch serrated blade, but failed; Brady strangled him with a piece of string (possibly a shoelace) and buried his body in a shallow grave. His body was found there nearly two years later, on 21 October 1965. The body was clothed but the jeans and underpants that he had been wearing were pulled down to mid-thigh and the underpants appeared to be knotted at the back. Kilbride's body was by then severely decomposed and he was identified by his clothing.[2]


[edit] Keith Bennett
The third victim was 12-year-old Keith Bennett (born 12 June 1952) who vanished on his way to his grandmother's house in Gorton on June 16, 1964 - four days after his 12th birthday. Bennett accepted a lift from Hindley near Stockport Road in Longsight. She drove to Saddleworth Moor and asked him to help search for a lost glove. Brady then lured Bennett into a ravine, where he strangled him with a piece of string before burying his body. Hindley stood above the ravine and watched the murder. Hindley later confessed that she had destroyed the photographs taken at the site of this particular murder, that had been kept at Brady's workplace at Millwards. Hindley had access to these photographs during the four days between Brady's arrest and her own in October 1965.

On 18 November 1986, Brady and Hindley confessed to Bennett's murder and that of Pauline Reade. A renewed search effort in 1987 saw both Brady and Hindley visit the Moors under police guard in effort to locate his grave, but the search was unsuccessful and his body has never been found. Ian Brady has said that if he is allowed to die he will point out where the boy is buried.


[edit] Lesley Ann Downey
Brady then lured Bennett into a ravine, where he strangled him with a piece of string before burying his body. Hindley stood above the ravine and watched the murder. Hindley maintained that she went to draw a bath for the child, and found the girl dead (presumably killed by Brady) when she returned to the room. However, during their trial more than a year later, Brady made a telling slip of the tongue while being cross-examined, telling the prosecutor that "we all got dressed" after the tape had been made, which suggests that Hindley was also actively involved in the sexual molestation of the child, and perhaps the physical killing as well. The following morning, Brady and Hindley drove Downey's body to Saddleworth Moor where she was buried in a shallow grave. When it was found on 16 October 1965, the body was still identifiable and Lesley's mother Ann West later made the official identification in a mortuary, though she also had to listen to the audio recording of her daughter's voice to confirm her identity.[3]


[edit] Edward Evans
The fifth and final victim was 17-year-old Edward Evans (born 1948). Brady met him at Manchester Central Station on 6 October 1965, and invited him to 16 Wardle Brook Avenue and hacked to death with an axe. Brady claimed that Evans was a homosexual (although his family denied these allegations), and on meeting him at Manchester Central Railway Station invited him back to 16 Wardle Brook Avenue with promises of sexual activity. It remains uncertain whether Evans was actually a homosexual or if Brady was merely attempting to impugn the young man's character (homosexuality was still illegal in Britain at the time). The crime was witnessed by Hindley's brother-in-law David Smith, who had married Myra's younger sister Maureen in August 1964. Brady and Hindley had apparently staged the murder as part of Smith's initiation into their killing confederacy. The Hindley family had not approved of Maureen's marriage to Smith, since he was known to many in Gorton as a thug and had already acquired several convictions in the juvenile courts for violent offences.

Throughout the previous year, Brady had been cultivating a friendship with Smith who copied a quotation from the Marquis de Sade into his diary: "Rape is not a crime, it is a state of mind. Murder is a hobby and a supreme pleasure".

Hindley had invited Smith to the house on the evening of 6 October 1965 on the pretext that Brady had wanted to give him some miniature wine bottles. Smith was waiting in the kitchen when he suddenly heard a loud scream from the adjacent living room as Hindley shouted for him to go and "help Ian". Smith entered the room to find Brady in a murderous frenzy, repeatedly striking Edwards with the flat of an axe before throttling him with a length of electrical cord. Smith was then asked to help clean up the blood and bits of bone and brain in the living room, and help carry the body to the spare room upstairs and wrap it in a polythene bag trussed up with rope. Fearing for his own life, Smith made an effort to maintain his composure as best as possible and complied. In the months before this murder, Smith had refused to believe Brady's claims of carrying out several murders and disposing the bodies on the moors, and had told Brady he was talking rubbish.

They were busy "searching" the moors when Brady pounced on Reade and fractured her skull with a shovel. He then raped her before slitting her throat with a knife; her spinal cord was severed and she was almost decapitated.

The victim was 12-year-old John Kilbride (born 15 May 1951). When he was approached by Hindley at a market in Ashton-under-Lyne, Kilbride agreed to go with her to help carry some boxes. Brady was sitting in the back of Ford Anglia car that Hindley had hired. When they reached the moors, he took the child with him while Hindley waited in the car. On the moor, Brady subjected Kilbride to a sexual assault and attempted to slit his throat with a six-inch serrated blade, but failed; Brady strangled him with a piece of string

Brady then lured Bennett into a ravine, where he strangled him with a piece of string before burying his body. Hindley stood above the ravine and watched the murder.

Hindley stood above the ravine and watched the murder. Hindley maintained that she went to draw a bath for the child, and found the girl dead (presumably killed by Brady) when she returned to the room. However, during their trial more than a year later, Brady made a telling slip of the tongue while being cross-examined, telling the prosecutor that "we all got dressed" after the tape had been made, which suggests that Hindley was also actively involved in the sexual molestation of the child, and perhaps the physical killing as well. The following morning, Brady and Hindley drove Downey's body to Saddleworth Moor where she was buried in a shallow grave

When it was found on 16 October 1965, the body was still identifiable and Lesley's mother Ann West later made the official identification in a mortuary, though she also had to listen to the audio recording of her daughter's voice to confirm her identity

On November 23, 1963, Brady and Hindley struck again. The victim was 12-year-old John Kilbride (born 15 May 1951). When he was approached by Hindley at a market in Ashton-under-Lyne, Kilbride agreed to go with her to help carry some boxes. Brady was sitting in the back of Ford Anglia car that Hindley had hired. When they reached the moors, he took the child with him while Hindley waited in the car. On the moor, Brady subjected Kilbride to a sexual assault and attempted to slit his throat with a six-inch serrated blade, but failed; Brady strangled him with a piece of string (possibly a shoelace) and buried his body in a shallow grave. His body was found there nearly two years later, on 21 October 1965. The body was clothed but the jeans and underpants that he had been wearing were pulled down to mid-thigh and the underpants appeared to be knotted at the back. Kilbride's body was by then severely decomposed and he was identified by his clothing.[2]

The sixteen-minute tape contains the voices of Brady and Hindley relentlessly cajoling and threatening the child as they try to photograph her. Downey is heard crying, retching, screaming, and begging to be allowed to return home safely to her mother