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 imagine MS Brady enjoyed the power rush of sadistic pleasure in hurting others after eating the common dogshit of life since she became aware of her ratty surroundings and miserable family. The pure pleasure in cruel bullying and even killing others is one of man’s most problematic aspects.