The noose was made for monsters like Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. But the UK (like most of the West) is oh too civilized to go for that. It was much easier to pretend, and give them prison sentences instead.
In a way, it’s like having a wolf in your sights, but letting him go. You are then oh so humane. No matter that the wolf has tore the guts out of many sheep.
Drugs or otherwise.
The families need to have their loved one's bodies returned.
When I was a kid we used to get Life magazine. I saw a story in it, 1966, ‘Killers on the Moors’. I had never heard of the Moors outside of Wuthering Heights. I was young, their story of murder, of this horrible blonde woman who lured children into a van for her boyfriend to rape and torture and then bury on the moors never left me.
I was reading of murders that happened over in England. It was never really covered over here again but I never forgot that picture of her or the story.
A few years ago it came out Ian Brady died and I found the story again, I read a book about the two of them and then one on Myra who babysat kids for her friends and was well liked and thought well of as a babysitter. How could she turn into this monster of a woman.
This is the book I read.
https://www.amazon.com/One-Your-Own-Death-Hindley/dp/1845967011
The photographer who took that picture with the policeman standing nearby caught ‘her’ in the first shot I believe. After that other books and photos came out trying to make her look more human, the cop who was in the room said ‘that first photo, that is the one that shows who she really is’.
I read/review murder mysteries as a hobby and Manchester is almost ALWAYS at the heart of it.
So much injustice in this world. :(
How was this pair caught as they practiced the ‘dead men tell no tales’ rule and forensic criminology was in its infancy.?
With dawning horror, they realised he might be responsible for more than one killing.
Geez, how can homicide cops ever view anything with ‘dawning horror’, most likely this is a journalistic cliche. The cops may have been (a) amused and (b) really interested that they had a real live one in their net and solution of high profile crimes might follow, with rewards and promotions as well. Real veteran cops are not the sanctimonius, sawdust figures from Criminal Minds, if they do their job, and often they don’t, they are tough, cynical opportunists who fully understand the public tolerates but does’t like them and the tax payer wants them to control the rabble.
He died at Ashworth Hospital on May 15 2017 aged 79.
and like Charlie Manson, he laughed all the way at the straight schmucks. Does he play chess with one of Satan’s lieutenants?
What does Manchester have to answer for, other than it is a shit city, so is , say, St Louis.
Big surprise he had a liking of Nazism. For some bizarre reason, a lot of Nazis got their jollies from the combination of eros and thanatos. Men were almost required to be domineering during that period, and the younger soldiers (and Hitler Youth) were exposed to all of the violence and blatant sadism while discovering their own sexual preferences. It’s part of the reason why Richie Ramirez came out a sexual sadist - his cousin showed him photos of them torturing and raping the women and girls in Vietnam while he was going through puberty.