The world isn’t any more dangerous than it was 50 years ago, its just that stories of drugs, paedophiles and murderers sell newspapers and increase the perception of crime. The Moors murders happened when my Mum was growing up near Oldham, and my Grandma and Grandad just reinforced the idea not to get into cars with strangers etc and then left her and my Aunt to get on with it.
What ever happened to Myra Hindley?
Some say she was released under a new name and others say she died in prison.