The spawn of hell

British serial killer couple Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were described as the spawn of hell, shocking an entire nation after raping, torturing, and murdering innocent children. This serial killer couple went down in British criminal history as the Moors Murderers, as they committed their murders either in their shared home or in Saddleworth Moor near Manchester. The murder spree of this diabolically evil couple took place from July 1963 to October 1965. During this period, five children and teenagers aged between 10 and 17 were sexually abused, sadistically tortured, and killed. They recorded their heinous crimes on photos, video, and audio recordings so that they could revel in them again and again as the children desperately begged for their lives and called for their parents in their death throes. The recordings were 16 minutes long. According to the BBC, because the case and every detail of it were covered live on TV, they were the first “serial killers of the television generation,” which made them the most hated people in Britain. Both were equally despised, although Ian Brady was the main perpetrator. When Ian Brady was born in Glasgow on January 2, 1938, no one could have guessed that he would become a cruel child murderer and rapist. Ian had an above-average IQ, which is why he transferred to a school for gifted children at the age of 10, where he stood out for his bad behavior. At the age of 15, he dropped out of school and went off the rails. He received a two-year suspended sentence for burglary. One of the conditions of his probation was that he had to move back in with his mother in Manchester. But Ian continued his career as a petty criminal there until he was caught helping a truck driver steal fruit from a vegetable market, which earned him a two-year prison sentence. After his release, Ian first worked at a brewery and then as an accountant in a small chemical factory, where he had a fateful encounter with 17-year-old Myra Hindley in January 1962. The two quickly became lovers and lived in their own world from then on. Myra encouraged Ian’s sadistic tendencies, which they eventually put into practice together. Myra usually acted as the decoy for the children. This was also the case with their first victim, 16-year-old Pauline Reade, who was approached by Myra on July 12, 1963. Myra pretended to have lost her glove in Saddleworth Moor and asked Pauline to help her look for it, promising her a reward. The unsuspecting girl followed Myra into the moor, where she was overpowered by both of them and taken to their shared apartment. There, Pauline experienced a true ordeal of horror that only ended with her death. After the murder, the couple had tasted blood. Further victims included 12-year-old John Kilbride, 12-year-old Keith Bennet, 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey, and 17-year-old Edward Evans. The latter marked the end of the murder series. Ian and Myra wanted to inspire other people with their lust for murder, which is why Myra’s 17-year-old brother-in-law, David Smith, was present at Edward Evans’ murder. Edward Evans was tortured in front of him until he fled when Ian struck the boy several times on the head with an axe. David Smith immediately called the Manchester police emergency number, who immediately drove to Ian and Myra’s house and stormed it. There they found the dead body of Edward Evans, whose foot was still sticking out of a laundry basket, which was to be used to transport him and bury him in the moor. In the house, they also found incriminating video and audio recordings, which they seized. On May 6, 1966, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1986, Ian Brady was declared mentally incompetent by psychiatrists and transferred from prison to the forensic psychiatric ward of Ashworth Hospital in Maghull, where he died on May 15, 2017, at the age of 79. While still in prison, Myra Hindley died of pneumonia in Bury St. Edmunds on November 15, 2002.