Word: hindley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could mistake the murderers, young Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, for Bonnie and Clyde; as rendered by Author Williams, they are closer to Jekyll and Hyde, complete with Victorian-melodrama makeup. Ian, 25, is the main figure, but wind him as he will, Williams cannot bring his manic mannequin to life...
Macabre Medley. On trial at Chester last April were Ian Brady, 28, a misanthropic store clerk whose only previous offenses had been housebreaking and burying cats alive, and Brady's blonde mistress, Esther Myra Hindley, 23, a wheyfaced, bouffant stenotypist. They were charged with slowly killing a ten-year-old girl and two boys, twelve and 17, by suffocation and ax blows, among other means. Two of the victims were buried naked in the bleak Manchester moors, where Myra posed smiling over the graves for Brady's camera; the third corpse was found by police in Brady...
...Brady's library. "There are some books that are not fit for all people," she says, "and some people who are not fit for all books." Literature, she believes, is a model demanding emulation; if the model is violence, violence follows. "Their interests," she says of Brady and Hindley, "were sadomasochistic, titillatory and sado-Fascist, and in the bookshops they found practically all the pabulum they needed...
...defendants to stand. "Ian Brady," he said, addressing the first prisoner, "you have been found guilty of three calculated, cruel and cold-blooded murders. I pass the only sentence which the law now allows: three concurrent sentences of life imprisonment." Then turning to the other defendant, Myra Hindley, 23, the judge decreed her two concurrent life sentences and one seven-year sentence...
...emotion when even the most harrowing details were being discussed?" The all-male jury deliberated two hours and 22 minutes before returning with verdicts that demanded the maximum sentence. Britain's historical maximum penalty-death by hanging -had been abolished by Parliament during the time Brady and Myra Hindley were in prison awaiting trial...