The Moors Murderers: The Full Story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

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By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Based on fact, this is a harrowing story composed using equal parts court records, interviews, and the author's speculation. Serial killers have always been a mystery to me, so learning about their childhoods and upbringings gives a new level of insight into how their minds work. I normally rate the books I review, but on this occasion I won’t – I feel it’s disrespectful to the victims and their families.

Besides that I did find it interesting because I did not know anything about the Moors Murderers and the author does provide some interesting information.

These include the cases author Williams guesses their involvement in, but were never proved in his lifetime. The description of the black family moving in next door to the Hindley house (and how they, and everyone else, ignored the bangs and screams on one murder night because that´s just what people did on overspill estates), the regular brewing of pots of tea, the cherry-picked Marquis de Sade quotations, the descriptions of what was on the box that night, what they had to eat and what Gran shouted from the back bedroom. Told respectfully, yet captivatingly throughout, I found “The Moors Murders – The Full Story Of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley” to be THE most fascinating study of what many consider to be the most disturbing crimes of the 20th century that I have ever read – and for me, it has now replaced Devils Disciples, and even the canonical, Beyond Belief as THE definitive study of Brady and Hindley. Glasgow-born Brady and Myra Hindley, his lover, achieved infamy after they lured away five children and abused then killed them. The Moors Murders are the most brutal, senseless and cold blooded killings to have occurred in Great Britain in many years.

Manages to cover all the major interesting points without treating the killers like rock stars or the survivors like non-entities. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were an ill-fated couple, a couple who brought havoc into the world when they got together.Perhaps so much so that I hesitate to say that I “enjoyed” reading it, but utterly compelling nonetheless.