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	Podcast:		Solved, Unsolved or Spooky - A True Crime Podcast
	Episode:		The Moors Murders
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		01:10:23
	Publish Date:		2020-12-05 23:00:00
	Description:		Show Notes: The murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between 1963 & 1965, in and around Manchester, England. The victims were five children—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey & Edward Evans—aged between 10 and 17 At least four of whom were sexually assaulted. Two of the victims were discovered in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered there in 1987, more than twenty years after Brady and Hindley's trial. Bennett's body is also thought to be buried there, despite repeated searches it remains undiscovered. They were charged only in the deaths of Kilbride, Downey and Evans, receiving life sentences. The investigation was reopened in 1985 after Brady was reported as having confessed to the murders of Reade and Bennett. After confessing to these additional murders, Brady and Hindley were taken separately to Saddleworth Moor to assist in the search for the graves. Hindley made several appeals against her life sentence, claiming she was a reformed woman and no longer a danger to society, but was never released. She died in 2002, aged 60, after serving 36 years in prison. Brady was diagnosed as a psychopath in 1985 & held in the high-security Ashworth Hospital. He made it clear that he never wished to be released, & repeatedly asked to be allowed to die. This wish was not granted & he was force fed, when he took part in hunger strikes. He died in 2017, at Ashworth, aged 79. The trial judge, Mr Justice Fenton Atkinson, described Brady & Hindley in his closing remarks as "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity". References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_murders https://www.therichest.com/shocking/15-creepiest-photos-ever-taken-from-the-moors-murders/ https://www.famechain.com/family-tree/23223/ian-brady/myra-hindley https://killer.cloud/serial-killers/show/603/ian-brady https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/moors-murderers-myra-hindley-and-ian-brady-claimed-first-victim-pauline-reade-25-years-ago/news-story/2c0fe944c9b2a71040381a8795a8eed8 Photographs: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/Moors_Murderers.jpg Resources: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/mentalhealth/Pages/contact-service.aspx#24-hour https://www.beyondblue.org.au/ Thanks for listening : we are eager to hear your stories, so if you have any listener stories for the show, please email us at podcast@solvedunsolvedorspooky.com Find us at: Twitter: #Orsolved Instagram: Solvedunsolvedorspooky Facebook: Solvedunsolvedorspooky Email us at: podcast@solvedunsolvedorspooky.com Support the show at: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=45582970 Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=45582970)
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