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...trial of the lean stock clerk and his blonde girl friend. They had been charged with killing 17-year-old Edward Evans and two children whose bodies they buried in shallow graves on the moors near Manchester. For the prosecution, Britain's Attorney General Sir Elwyn Jones called 40 witnesses to the stand. The killings were all marked by what Sir Elwyn called "a perverted sexual element." The defendants, he charged, took special care to preserve mementos of the crimes...
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...
...police search also uncovered, tucked in a prayer book, a claim check for baggage at a Manchester rail station. With that, said Sir Elwyn, the police discovered the fate of two children who had been missing for more than a year. The suitcases contained photographs of ten-year-old Lesley Anne Downey in what Sir Elwyn described as "various pornographic poses." Also in a suitcase were tape recordings of what the prosecutor said were the voices of Lesley Anne and the two defendants. Said Sir Elwyn to the all-male jury: "I am afraid you will have to suffer...
...Next Sir Elwyn turned to the third alleged murder-that of twelve-year-old John Kilbride, who disappeared in November 1963. Among the pictures in the suitcases, he said, was one of Myra "crouching and apparently looking down" at a spot on the moors. Locating the same spot, police exhumed the boy's body. The arrangement of his clothes, said Sir Elwyn, indicated that he, too, had been sexually molested before he was killed. Less than 400 yards from the boy's grave, police found the grave of Lesley Anne...
Readings from De Sade. Sir Elwyn proceeded to call the first witness. She was Mrs. Maureen Smith, 19, Myra's sister. She testified that one night last December Myra had 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...