21. Sara Trevelyan, author interview, Edinburgh, 24 June 2009. Jimmy Boyle has since become a celebrated sculptor and novelist. He and Sara had two children before their divorce in 2000; they remain on amicable terms.
22. Myra Hindley, letter, 9 August 1983. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
23. Ibid.
24. Bridget Astor, author interview, London, 28 July 2009.
25. Patrick Downey, letter, 29 February 1984. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/26.
26. Internal memo, March 1984. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO36/26.
27. Myra Hindley, letter, 20 May 1984. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/26.
28. Janie Jones, The Devil and Miss Jones: The Twisted Mind of Myra Hindley (London: Smith Gryphon, 1988), p. 228.
29. Wilson, Devil’s Disciples, p. 184.
30. Hindley was granted the privilege of naming her toiletries and cosmetics on account of her ‘lifer’ status.
31. Ritchie, Myra Hindley, p. 229.
32. Wilson, Devil’s Disciples, p. 180.
33. Fred Harrison, Brady and Hindley: The Genesis of the Moors Murders (London: Grafton Books, 1987), p. 72.
34. Anne Maguire, author interview, London, 29 July 2009.
35. Ritchie, Myra Hindley, pp. 229–30.
36. Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.
37. Anon., ‘My Myra Should Die in Prison’, The Sun (20 June 1985).
38. Myra Hindley, letter, 1985. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.
39. Wilson, Devil’s Disciples, p. 190.
40. Brady, The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and its Analysis (Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001), p. 18.
41. Ritchie, Myra Hindley, p. 258.
42. Ibid., pp. 260–1.
43. Internal memo, November 1986. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/26.
44. Ibid.
45. Myra Hindley, letter, 3 November 1986. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
46. Revd Peter Timms, author interview, Sussex, 28 July 2009.
47. Topping also had the dog handler visit woods at Whaley Bridge and Taxal, knowing that those were also favourite spots for Brady and Hindley.
48. Peter Topping, Topping: The Autobiography of the Police Chief in the Moors Murders Case (London: Angus and Robertson, 1989), p. 41.
49. Ritchie, Myra Hindley, p. 263.
50. David Astor, 20 November 1986. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
51. Revd Peter Timms, author interview, Sussex, 28 July 2009.
52. Topping also consulted the original detectives who worked on the case. Ian Fairley recalls, ‘It wasn’t done properly. A chap called [Detective Inspector] Geoff Knupfer came to see me and asked what I could tell them. I said, “What do you want to know?” But he didn’t know. That’s what it came down to – he didn’t really know what to ask. Topping was so secretive . . . I could have told Knupfer more, but he didn’t know what he wanted.’ Topping himself spoke to Joe Mounsey, who had been promoted to Chief Superintendent, Head of Lancashire CID, two years after the Moors trial. His widow, Margaret, remembers, ‘Joe was interested in the new search, definitely. Topping contacted him, and I think he and Joe corresponded, but Joe basically said to him, “You’ve got the maps,” and that was about it. When they took Brady up to the moors, Joe said, “He won’t tell them a bloody thing. He won’t help.”’ (Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009).
53. Ritchie, Myra Hindley, pp. 265–6.
54. David Smith was also taken to the moor without being told where he was going. He was unable to help, except to tell Topping that he remembered parking at Hoe Grain with Brady and Hindley on occasion.
55. Journalist Robert Wilson covers the story of the case and the renewed search in his books Devil’s Disciples and Return to Hell. He spoke to Edward Evans’s mother, Edith, then 64 and living alone in a council house in a quiet Manchester suburb. She had little to say, except that she wished her son’s killers had been hung.
56. Ritchie, Myra Hindley, p. 268.
57. Myra Hindley, letter, 5 February 1987. From the David Astor archive, private collection. Author’s italics.
58. Ibid., author’s italics.
59. Topping, Topping, p. 73.
60. Gerard Seenan, ‘Catholic Girl Turned Killer Whose Pleas for Redemption Fell on Deaf Ears’, The Guardian (16 November 2002).
61. Duncan Staff, ‘A Journey into Darkness’, The Guardian (29 February 2000).
62. Topping, Topping, p. 89.
63. Myra Hindley, autobiography. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.
64. Topping, Topping, p. 144.
65. Ibid., p. 147.
66. Ibid.
67. Ibid.
68. Revd Peter Timms, author interview, Sussex, 28 July 2009.
69. Myra Hindley, letter, 31 March 1987. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/28.
70. Myra Hindley, petition, 15 April 1987. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/28.
71. Sara Trevelyan, author interview, Edinburgh, 24 June 2009.
72. Psychiatric report, the Bethlehem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
73. Ibid.
74. In the aftermath of the visit, Ian sent a letter to the BBC claiming responsibility for five other killings, which the police investigated without result.
75. Ritchie, Myra Hindley, p. 277.
76. Topping, Topping, p. 203.
77. Ibid., p. 209.
78. Ibid., p. 237.
79. Deed of Trust, The Open Hand. From the David Astor archive, private collection. The trust was in name only; the book was never published.
80. Ritchie, Myra Hindley, p. 279.
81. Myra Hindley, letter to Peter Stanford, 4 February 1987.
82. Ibid.
83. Peter Stanford, author interview, London, 24 June 2009.
84. Ibid.
85. Ibid.
86. Myra Hindley, letter, 3 December 1987. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
87. Bernard Black, author interview, Portsmouth, 19 August 2009.
88. Margaret Black, author interview, Portsmouth, 19 August 2009. Bernard lost contact with Hindley around 1999 when he suffered a stroke.
89. Myra Hindley, 28 April 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
90. Baroness Helena Kennedy QC is the author of Eve Was Framed and Just Law. Myra contributed to neither book.
91. Myra Hindley, letter, 2 June 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
92. Myra Hindley, letter, 28 July 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
93. Diana Athill, Stet: An Editor’s Life (London: Grove Press, 2002), p. 96.
94. Ibid., p. 97.
95. Ibid., p. 97.
96. Andrew McCooey, telephone interview, 11 August 2009.
97. Myra Hindley, letter, 29 September 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
98. Myra Hindley, letter, 4 November 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
99. Myra Hindley, letter, 18 November 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
100. Ritchie, Myra Hindley, p. 16.
101. Myra Hindley, letter, 18 November 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
102. Myra Hindley, letter, 19 September 1989. Reproduced with the kind permission of Peter Stanford.
103. Peter Stanford, author interview, London, 24 June 2009.
104. Ibid.
105. Myra Hindley, letter, 20 April 1989. Reproduced with the kind permission of Peter Stanford.
106. Myra Hindley, letter, 2 December 1988. Reproduced with the kind permission of Peter Stanford.
107. Myra Hindley, letter, 7 December 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
/> 108. Ibid.
109. Myra Hindley, letter, 3 April 1989. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
110. Ibid.
111. Myra Hindley, letter, 1 May 1989. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
112. David Astor, letter, 18 July 1989. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
113. Unsigned report on the Hindley manuscript. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
*114. Yvonne Roberts, author interview, London, 27 July 2009.
115. Ibid.
116. Myra Hindley, letter, 8 October 1989. From the David Astor archive, private collection. Alan Bennett also corresponded with Ian Brady in the hope that he would reveal information leading to the discovery of Keith’s grave.
117. Revd Peter Timms, author interview, Sussex, 28 July 2009.
118. Myra Hindley, letter, 11 December 1989. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
119. Myra Hindley, letter, 26 November 1989. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
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1. Ian Brady, letter, 16 January 1990. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
2. Andrew McCooey, letter, 12 June 1991. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
3. On New Year’s Day 1992, Longford wrote to her: ‘Thank you very much for the Christmas card, with its message of friendship for Elizabeth and me. I cannot resist telling you how much I miss coming to see you but understand your feeling that it is better not to.’ (From the David Astor archive, private collection.)
4. Joe Chapman, author interview, Oxford, 18 July 2009.
5. Bridget Astor, author interview, London, 28 July 2009.
6. Myra Hindley, undated correspondence. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
7. Geraldine Bedell, ‘Profile: Beyond Forgiveness? Myra Hindley’, The Independent (18 April 1993).
8. Ibid.
9. Joe Chapman, author interview, Oxford, 18 July 2009.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Steve Boggan, ‘How I Fell in Love with Myra: Nina Wilde’, The Independent (9 February 1997).
15. Joe Chapman, Out of the Frying Pan, (London: Chipmunka Publishing, 2009).
16. Ibid.
17. Joe Chapman, author interview, Oxford, 18 July 2009.
18. Chapman, Out of the Frying Pan.
19. Myra Hindley, solicitor correspondence, 24 June 1994. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
20. Myra Hindley, campaign correspondence, 1994. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
21. Ibid.
22. Myra Hindley, letter, 7 December 1994. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
23. Ibid.
24. Joe Chapman, author interview, Oxford, 18 July 2009.
25. Chapman, Out of the Frying Pan.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Internal memo, 1994. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/34.
30. Ibid.
31. Topping intended to brief the hypnotist first as to where he believed the grave might be, thereby leaving little room for a location other than Shiny Brook to be considered.
32. Hindley had written previously to David Astor about press reports that Paul McKenna would hypnotise her to find Keith’s grave: ‘I’ve never even heard of Paul McKenna and wrote to the PCC [Press Complaints Commission] myself to say I hadn’t.’
33. Chapman, Out of the Frying Pan.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. Myra Hindley, letter, 30 May 1995. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
37. Chapman, Out of the Frying Pan.
38. Internal memo, 26 July 1995. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/34.
39. Ibid.
40. David Astor, letter, 12 October 1995. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
41. Myra Hindley, letter, 14 November. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
42. David Rowan and Duncan Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’, The Guardian (18 December 1995).
43. Ibid.
44. Myra Hindley, solicitor correspondence, 29 August 1996. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
45. David Astor, letter, 9 September 1996. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
46. Myra Hindley, letter, 10 November 1996. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
47. Myra Hindley, letter, 20 February 1997. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
48. David Astor, letter, 20 October 1997. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
49. Chapman, Out of the Frying Pan.
50. Ibid.
51. Margaret Mounsey, author interview, Preston, 14 July 2009.
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1. Myra Hindley, letter, 2 March 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
2. Myra Hindley, letter, 30 June 1998. Reproduced with the kind permission of Bernard Black.
3. Father Michael Teader, author interview, Suffolk, 3 September 2009.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Alan Watkins, ‘Hindley – An Icon of Evil: The Myra I Knew’, Sunday Mirror (17 November 2002).
7. Myra Hindley, letter, 2 March 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
8. Myra Hindley, letter, July 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
9. Ibid.
10. Robert Verkaik, ‘The Death of Myra Hindley: The Letters’, The Independent (16 November 2002).
11. Steve Boggan, ‘Revealed: New evidence that might free Myra Hindley’, The Independent (15 August 1998).
12. Steve Boggan, ‘Hindley Happy to Kill, Says Brady’, The Independent (28 August 1998).
13. Anon., ‘Myra Went to the Ends of the Earth for Brady . . . They Were Bonded by Blood’, Daily Mirror (9 February 1999).
14. Myra Hindley, letter, August 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
15. Ibid.
16. Myra Hindley, letter, 2 September 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
17. Myra Hindley, letter, 7 December 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
18. David Astor and Terry Waite, letter, 23 December 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
19. Myra Hindley, letter, 6 January 1999. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
20. Myra Hindley, letter, 22 January 1999. Reproduced with the kind permission of Bernard Black.
21. Joe Chapman, Out of the Frying Pan (London: Chipmunka Publishing, 2009).
22. Joe Chapman, author interview, Oxford, 18 July 2009.
23. Anon., ‘Victim’s Mother Determined Hindley Should Not Be Released’, BBC News online (17 December 1997).
24. David Astor, 30 May 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
25. Bridget Astor, author interview, London, 28 July 2009.
26. Ibid.
27. Father Michael Teader, author interview, Suffolk, 3 September 2009.
28. Duncan Staff, author interview, Bristol, 18 June 2009.
29. Andrew McCooey, telephone interview, 11 August 2009.
30. Internal memo, 20 December 2000. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/145.
31. Internal memo, March 2001. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/114.
32. Myra Hindley, letter, 20 August 2001. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
33. Ibid.
34. Father Michael Teader, author interview, Suffolk, 3 September 2009.
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