Serial Killers: Ian Brady & Myra Hindley

Some crimes are so terrible that they become national nightmares, and the Moors Murderers have remained in the headlines for longer than most. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley killed for kicks. The couple met in 1961 while working for a Manchester chemical firm. She was a 19-year old typist; he was a 23-year old stock clerk. The pair became lovers and developed a sick mutual thrill from killing innocent youngsters virtually without motive. Brady was born in Glasgow, the illegitimate son of a waitress. He never knew his father and was brought up by foster parents in the tough poverty-ridden tenements of the Gorbals. Hindley was a local girl, born and brought up in the industrial suburb of Gorton. She was average in every way and failed to do well at school. In her early teens she told to the Catholic faith, regularly attending Mass.