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...than being beheaded, murderers are simply shot nowadays. Thieves still may lose a hand; but it is first pumped with painkillers, the wrist is wrenched from the socket to avoid any broken bones, and the hand is amputated with sterilized instruments rather than with one grisly swipe of an ax...
Bundled Body. Hefting the ax with which Ian Brady had allegedly hacked a victim to death, Attorney General Sir Elwyn Jones opened the prosecution's case by recounting how the police had unraveled what the press has called "the Moor Murders." The break came, he said, when the two defendants staged a murder to impress David Smith, 19, Myra's brother-in-law, who had doubted Brady's boasts about his thrill killings. After witnessing the murder, Smith rushed home to his wife, then called the police. They searched the house that Ian and Myra shared...
...asked her husband David to walk her home. David Smith came to the stand and told what had happened when he got there. "I heard a scream and ran into the living room." There he saw Ian standing over a young man, striking him on the head with an ax. Said Smith: "I have seen butchers show as much emotion as he did when they were cutting up a sheep's ribs." Frightened, Smith helped Brady and Myra Hindley wipe away the blood and truss up the body before going home to his wife. On crossexamination, defense attorneys...
Hicks, the Ax...
...past, she was competing for the political second string. If she wants to take the helm of an All American City, Louise Hicks will have to doctor her image considerably. She now stands on a completely negative, reactionary platform, and is better known as an ax-man than as an innovator...