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7. Joe Chapman, Out of the Frying Pan (London: Chipmunka Publishing, 2009).
8. Ibid.
9. Robert Verkaik, ‘The Death of Myra Hindley: The Letters’, The Independent (16 November 2002).
10. Ian Brady, The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and its Analysis (Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001), p. 15.
11. Chapman, Out of the Frying Pan.
12. Goodman, The Moors Murders, p. 111.
13. Ibid., p. 111.
14. Chapman, Out of the Frying Pan.
15. Ibid.
16. Myra Hindley, letter, 3 June 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
17. Hindley could not recall what happened to the bloodstained sheet, but Hattersley was a smokeless zone so it could not have been burnt at home. Nonetheless, it wasn’t found with Lesley’s body when she was discovered a year later.
18. Anon., ‘Tracker Dogs Join Giant Search for Girl’, Manchester Evening News (28 December 1964).
19. Anon., ‘Lesley: 100 Police with Dogs in Big Hunt’, Manchester Evening News (31 December 1964).
20. Anon., ‘Have You Seen 10 Year Old Lesley? Big Search for Lost Girl’, Gorton & Openshaw Reporter (1 January 1965).
21. Patty Hodges testified at the trial that Myra had taped their conversation, not Ian.
22. National Archive, Assizes: Wales and Chester Circuit: Criminal Depositions and Case Papers, ASSI 84/427.
23. Jean Ritchie, Myra Hindley: Inside the Mind of a Murderess (London: Grafton Books, 1988), p. 67.
24. Robert Wilson, Devil’s Disciples: Moors Murders (Dorset: Javelin Books, 1986), p. 42.
25. David Marchbanks, The Moor Murders (London: Leslie Frewin, 1966), p. 24.
26. Ibid., p. 24.
27. Maureen Hindley, witness statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
28. Ibid. Hindley later refuted Maureen’s accusation. She told Peter Topping that she and Maureen had discussed the matter years after the trial and that Maureen had told her she must have confused the facts. Topping was unable to verify her claim; Maureen had died five years before.
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1. Peter Topping, Topping: The Autobiography of the Police Chief in the Moors Murders Case (London: Angus and Robertson, 1989), p. 137.
2. Anon., ‘We Had Finished Killing, Says Brady’, Manchester Evening News (28 October 2005).
3. Ibid.
4. Anon., ‘Galway Man Who Turned in the Moors Murderers’, Ireland on Sunday (undated).
5. Trial transcripts. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
6. William Mars-Jones QC, ‘The Moors Murders’ address given to the Medico-Legal Society, 9 November 1967.
7. Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.
8. Fred Harrison, Brady and Hindley: The Genesis of the Moors Murders (London: Grafton Books, 1987), p. 121.
9. Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales. When Topping asked if she ever suspected Brady was homosexual, Hindley replied that she used to wonder what he did all night with Dave. Otherwise, she felt that when Brady wasn’t with her he was probably with other women. But when Topping questioned Brady himself, Brady admitted with his head bowed that he was bisexual. It was probably men, not women, that he was interested in when he went out alone without her.
10. Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.
11. Patricia Ann Hodges, witness statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
12. Ann West, For the Love of Lesley: Moors Murders Remembered by a Victim’s Mother (London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1989), p. 59.
13. Jean Ritchie, Myra Hindley: Inside the Mind of a Murderess (London: Grafton Books, 1988), p. 71.
14. Myra: The Making of a Monster, documentary (Map-TV, 2003).
15. Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.
16. Anon., ‘Galway Man Who Turned in the Moors Murderers’.
17. Harrison, Brady and Hindley, p. 120.
18. The house was demolished in 1981.
19. Robert Bottomley, ‘The Babysitter with Blue Hair’, Manchester Evening News (18 November 2002).
20. John Deane Potter, The Monsters of the Moors: The Full Account of the Brady–Hindley Case (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), p. 280.
21. Ibid.
22. Ritchie, Myra Hindley, p. 74.
23. Despite her insistence that she didn’t speak to Hindley or Brady after February 1965, Patty very loosely resumed her friendship with them, as indicated by photographs taken later that year.
24. Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.
25. Ibid.
26. Potter, The Monsters of the Moors, p. 277.
27. The Reporter (17 December 1965).
28. Ibid.
29. Topping, Topping, p. 212.
30. Harrison, Brady and Hindley, p. 125.
31. Ian Brady, The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and its Analysis (Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001), p. 154.
32. Christine Hart, The Devil’s Daughter (Essex: New Author Publications, 1993), p. 258.
33. David Smith, witness statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8. Maureen was never party to the discussions.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. David Marchbanks, The Moor Murders (London: Leslie Frewin, 1966), p. 60.
37. David Smith, witness statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
38. Brady, The Gates of Janus, p. 16.
39. Harrison, Brady and Hindley, p. 126.
40. Ibid. Fred Harrison dates the conversation about Tony Latham as summer, yet places it after Brady first mentioned to David Smith that he had already killed – a conversation that, according to the court transcripts, didn’t occur until September.
41. Brady, The Gates of Janus, p. 93.
42. Brady told Topping that he had killed an English hitch-hiker when he and Hindley were driving through the village of Arrochar, near Loch Long; he claims to have shot the man, but there is no trace of the murder.
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1. David Smith, witness statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Author interview with Anne Murdoch, Manchester, 28 May 2009.
6. David Smith, witness statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8. In light of the known pattern of the murders, Brady’s comment is puzzling; if there was no murder that summer, then he was ‘overdue’, unless he meant that he had not killed that summer and only intended to murder again in November or December, as before.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Robert Wilson, Devil’s Disciples: Moors Murders (Dorset: Javelin Books, 1986), p. 52.
10. David Smith, witness statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
11. Dominic Sandbrook, Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles (London: Abacus, 2006), p. 600. The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 only partially decriminalised male homosexuality.
12. Ibid., p. 601.
13. Together with the disposal plan, the gift is further proof, if it were needed, that Edward’s murder was premeditated. Hindley never admitted fully to this and the version of the murder recounted in Duncan Staff’s The Lost Boy is drawn from her writings. Edward’s killing had a dual purpose for Brady: it was a means of proving himself to Dave and a test of Dave himself, to discover just how deeply he had taken on board his ‘tutoring’.
14. The Reporter (17 December 1965).
15. Ibid.
16. Wilson, Devil’s Disciples, p. 52.
17. Letter from rent man, read to court. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
18. David Smith, witness statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
19. Jean Ritchie, Myra Hindley: Inside the Mind of a Murderess (London: Grafton Books, 1988), p. 76.
20. Maureen Smith, witness statement. See footnote 25, chap
ter 8.
21. Duncan Staff, The Lost Boy: The Definitive Story of the Moors Murders and the Search for the Final Victim (London: Bantam Books, 2008), p. 247.
22. David Smith, police statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8. Smith’s police statement is also quoted in Mars-Jones’s address to the Medico-Legal Society.
23. Anon., ‘Galway Man Who Turned in the Moors Murderers’, Ireland on Sunday (undated).
24. No one else admitted to hearing Edward’s screams that night. Brady and Hindley’s next-door neighbours, the Braithwaites, told the police they never heard anything other than ‘domestic noises’.
25. David Smith, police statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
26. Myra: The Making of a Monster, documentary (Map-TV, 2003).
27. David Smith, police statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
28. Ibid. This can only refer to Lesley Ann Downey since, as far as is known, all the other victims, apart from Edward Evans, were killed on the moor.
29. Anon., ‘Galway Man Who Turned in the Moors Murderers’.
30. David Smith, police statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
31. Anon., ‘Galway Man Who Turned in the Moors Murderers’.
32. Myra: The Making of a Monster, documentary (Map-TV, 2003).
33. Ritchie, Myra Hindley, p. 81.
34. Anon., ‘Galway Man Who Turned in the Moors Murderers’.
35. David Smith, police statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
36. Ibid., p. 32.
37. Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.
38. Anon., ‘Galway Man Who Turned in the Moors Murderers’.
39. William Mars-Jones QC, ‘The Moors Murders’ address given to the Medico-Legal Society, 9 November 1967.
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1. Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.
7. Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009.
8. Robert Talbot, witness statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
9. David Rowan and Duncan Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’, The Guardian (18 December 1995).
10. Nicola Dowling, ‘Myra and I Planned Suicide’, Manchester Evening News (28 March 2006).
11. Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009.
12. Robert Talbot, witness statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Jean Ritchie, Myra Hindley: Inside The Mind of a Murderess (London: Grafton Books, 1988), p. 84.
17. Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009.
18. Ibid.
19. Ritchie, Myra Hindley, p. 86.
20. Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009.
21. National Archive, Assizes: Wales and Chester Circuit: Criminal Depositions and Case Papers, ASSI 84/427.
22. Ritchie, Myra Hindley, p. 83.
23. Myra Hindley, police interview. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Peter Topping, Topping: The Autobiography of the Police Chief in the Moors Murders Case (London: Angus and Robertson, 1989), p. 122.
27. Sandra Ratcliffe, ‘Why Myra Must Never Be Freed’, Daily Record (29 October 1997).
28. Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.
29. Journalist Clive Entwistle recalls: ‘Very soon after the arrest, I spoke to Tom Roden, who lived with his wife Kitty behind Brady and Hindley on Wardle Brook Walk. He told me that on the night that Evans was murdered, Myra’s car was parked outside, on the road. Tom was taking his dog for a walk and he was nearby, just at the back of the pub, and he saw figures coming out of the house, carrying something. But then they saw him and went back in. Tom felt certain afterwards that he had seen them in the process of taking Evans to the car in order to bury him on the moors.’ (Clive Entwistle, author interview, Leeds, 3 August 2009).
30. Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009.
31. Ibid.
32. Ian Brady, police interview. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
33. Janie Jones, The Devil and Miss Jones: The Twisted Mind of Myra Hindley (London: Smith Gryphon, 1988), p. 142.
34. David Marchbanks, The Moor Murders (London: Leslie Frewin, 1966), p. 78.
35. Manchester Evening News (7 October 1965).
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1. Manchester Evening News (8 October 1965). That same issue featured an article on eleven murders that had taken place in Manchester city centre within the last ten years. All were adults.
2. Clive Entwistle, author interview, Leeds, 3 August 2009.
3. Robert Wilson, Devil’s Disciples: Moors Murders (Dorset: Javelin Books, 1986), p. 52.
4. Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009.
5. Ibid.
6. Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.
7. By then, working hours at Millwards had altered. The staff worked longer hours through the week and had Saturdays off. Brady and Hindley had signed a petition for the change, which was put into place immediately after their arrest. It isn’t clear how she got in, unless someone was already there to admit her.
8. The contents are unknown. Topping suggested incriminating photographs, which Hindley denied, insisting that it was nothing to do with the murders but instead plans for robberies. The theory in The Lost Boy by Duncan Staff is that it was body disposal plans, but that’s extremely unlikely since the police had the last disposal plan and Brady would have already destroyed the others (‘destroy all lists’). Fairley disputes that Hindley had any opportunity to dispose of evidence.
9. Emlyn Williams, Beyond Belief: The Moors Murderers – The Story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley (London: Pan, 1968), p. 323.
10. Ian Fairley recalls: ‘I found the name of John Kilbride in the notebook. Dixie Dean had nothing else to do with the murder inquiry. He didn’t find the name of John Kilbride in the notebook. This is what I’ve said; the names have been changed. Dean didn’t look at that notebook in the house. It was among the exhibits as they came into the inquiry room.’ (Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009).
11. James Stansfield, ‘Diary of a Supercop: The Mounsey Memoirs’, Evening Gazette (2 August 1988).
12. Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.
13. The Moors Murders, documentary (Chameleon TV, 1999).
14. Margaret Mounsey, author interview, Preston, 14 July 2009.
15. Ian Brady, police interview. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
16. Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.
17. Myra Hindley, police interview. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
18. Myra Hindley, autobiography. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.
19. Hindley was told to stand, not shoved into a chair as she claimed in a letter to journalist Duncan Staff.
20. Ian Brady, evidence given at trial. See footnote 25, chapter 8.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. David Rowan and Duncan Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’, The Guardian (18 December 1995).
24. A member of staff at Longsight Library noticed that Brady was late in returning his books; his fines amounted to 4s 3d. She sent him a reminder, but the postcard was sent back marked, ‘Gone away.’