The Moors Murderers: The Full Story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

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Prison letters written by Brady in 1965, which were due to remain closed until 2027, show that he made no attempt to disguise his depravity. The Moors Murders is another fresh look into the crimes of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, which is a case I studied in Psychology years ago and found fascinating and eerie. But the book was published in 1967, 18 years before Hindley and then Brady confessed to the Moors murders (even tho they had been in prison since 1966). They complimented each other in the ways in which they indulged in deviant sex and the dreams of going further into trying to hurt others. 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.

In the 1960s, Myra Hindley and Ian Brady turned the desolate yet serene countryside of Saddleworth Moor into a burial ground, disposing of their murder victims in the deep soil. In this book, many artefacts 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. Occasionally I wasn´t totally gripped but there was no doubting Williams' methodology has well-preserved the times and the people involved. Mr Cooks book packed as it is with court transcripts, police interviews, parole service documents, psychiatric reports and more paints a picture of a woman who knew exactly what she was doing.I truly did hold on, until the recounting of the sexual crimes committed by Ian Brady in his youth started.

Signs do not scream, Serial Killer in the making, and hindsight is a marvelous thing, but I cannot help but wonder if some earlier intervention might have changed the course of history, and these two then may never have met? As a work of literature, critics have not held Beyond Belief in the same high esteem as other crime-related nonfiction novels like In Cold Blood or Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song (1980).A true crime fanatic, who enjoys re-investigating real life crimes and un-earthing new, never seen or heard before information to add to the narrative. His book, Gates of Janus — Serial Killing and Its Analysis, by the Moors Murderer, Ian Brady, was published by FeralHouse in 2015. Yet, I believe the darkness that lived within these two would lead to heinous acts either alone or together. Frankly, I had a hard time getting through it and not because of the subject but because of the maddening style.

In all five murders can be tracked to the couple although police feel that there were more than that. Ian’s manipulative relationship with Myra, his love of Hitler and his approval of the Nazi Internment Camps, immediately makes Ian the monster in the story. The tribal Williams also nurtured the young Welshman Richard Burton, whom he directed in his first lead film role in 'The Last Days of Dolwyn' (1949).His device of being the voice of Brady in the majority of the book began to irritate this reader very quickly. For the living, it’s also the way they buried their victims anonymously on the Saddleworth moors and then gave false hopes to victims' parents and relatives claiming to reveal where they were buried, but then never did. The book ends rather abruptly with a very quick summary of the trial, but the author is planning a second book to explore the story of the trial as well as the subsequent lives of the killers. The author included direct quotes from those involved with the case as well as case related pictures.