Serial Killers and the Media The Moors Murders Legacy
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
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The Moors Murders Legacy Early in the morning of 7th October, 1965 the Police in Hyde, Greater Manchester, received a phone call from David Smith. He was in a very agitated and frightened state. He told the Police that the night before he had witnessed a murder at 16, Wardle Brook Ave, Hattersley. The property was occupied by Smith’s sister-in-law Myra Hindley and her lover Ian Brady. Hindley’s grandmother also lived at the property. The police went to the address that morning and found the body of Edward Evans. They immediately arrested Brady. Four days later, Hindley was arrested. On 15th October 1965, The police recovered two suitcases belonging to Brady at Manchester Central Station. The suitcases contain photographs and the tape of the torture of Lesley Ann Downey. Lesley Ann Downey had gone missing from a fair, on Boxing Day 1964. Her body and that of John Kilbride was recovered from the Moors above Manchester. John Kilbride had been reported missing in November 1963. He had disappeared after helping stall holders clear up at Ashton Market. Thus began one of the most notorious criminal cases in British penal history. From that point onwards, the case has rarely if ever been out of the headlines. Rupert Thompson’s novel Death of a Murderer ( Thomson, 2008) involves a prison officer sent
to guard the body of a female killer -she is never named but the reader knows that it is Hindley. Thomson writes of “ how deeply that series of murders had embedded itself in the nation’s psyche. No one who had been alive at the time could ever be entirely free of it.” Brady and Hindley’s trial began on 19th April, 1966 at Chester Assizes. This was the first high profile murder case since the passing of The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act which suspended the death penalty for five years. At the end of the trial in May, 1966 Brady is found guilty of the murders of
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Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
Series Editors Michelle Brown Department of Sociology
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