A match made in hell: The chance meeting in Manchester that led to the Moors Murders
Showing his newest employee around the Manchester chemical firm where he worked, Tommy Craig could have had no idea of the evil and horror she would go on to inflict.
The killings - which became known as the Moors Murders - shook the country to its core and continue to haunt Manchester to this day. This week marked 60 years since the couple's first victim, Pauline Reade, disappeared on her way to a disco on July 12, 1963. The courts sent the young Brady to Manchester to live with his mother and her new boyfriend, Patrick Brady, whose surname he would later assume.
When Nellie went back to work as a machinist, Hindley spent much of her time with her grandmother, who lived nearby. Hindley started Peacock Street Primary School at five, but was often allowed to stay off by her grandmother and failed to get the grades for grammar school. Nothing distinguished her from other teenagers of the day. She liked rock and roll, had boyfriends and dyed her hair to make herself look older and more glamorous.
That evening, Hindley went out with a group of friends and could not stop talking about Brady, who she likened to Elvis Presley and James Dean. Yet it would be months before they became an item. Pauline, who was also from Gorton and a schoolmate of Hindley's sister Maureen, disappeared on her way to a disco on July 12, 1963.
Keith Bennett was just 12 when he was lured into a van by Myra Hindley who asked him to help her with some boxes. Her lover and fellow killer Ian Brady was sat on the back seat, on June 16th 1964. Lesley Ann Downey was lured away from an Ancoats funfair near her home and killed at Hindley’s home at 16 Wardle Brook Avenue, Hattersley, on December 26, 1964.
Once there, he was killed in a hail of axe blows inside the couple's home. The aftermath of the murder was witnessed by Hindley's 17-year-old brother-in-law, David Smith, who ran into the room to find Brady standing over his victim with the axe. After arresting Brady for Evans' murder, police started to trawl through his library of books on murder and sexual perversion. With dawning horror, they realised he might be responsible for more than one killing.
The search was ended as bitter winter set in… and two children continued to lie, lost, in unmarked graves on that lonely moor.
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