One of Your Own (61 page)
Authors: Carol Ann Lee
13.
National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO 336/114.
14.
Some of the many epithets used to describe Myra Hindley over the years. ‘A disgrace to womankind’ is Hindley’s own phrase, taken from a letter she wrote to Ann West in the 1990s.
15.
Nicci Gerrard, ‘The Face of Human Evil’,
The Observer
(17 November 2002).
16.
David Rowan and Duncan Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’,
The Guardian
(18 December 1995).
17.
Ian Brady was sentenced to three life sentences to run concurrently; Myra Hindley was sentenced to two life sentences and one sentence of seven years to run concurrently.
18.
Brian Deer, ‘First Degree Photocall Lifts Murderer’s Image’,
The Times
, online edition (29 October 1989).
19.
Myra Hindley, autobiography. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.
20.
Duncan Staff, author interview, Bristol, 18 June 2009.
Part II – Gorton Girl: 23 July 1942 – 21 December 1960
2
1.
Joe Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
(London: Chipmunka Publishing, 2009). Quotations from online edition (no page numbers):
www.chipmunkapublishing.co.uk
.
2.
Myra Hindley and Nina Wilde, ‘Older and Wiser’,
Verdict
(January 1996).
3.
Myra Hindley, autobiography. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.
4.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
5.
Ibid.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Emlyn Williams,
Beyond Belief: The Moors Murderers – The Story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
(London: Pan, 1968), p. 113.
8.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
9.
David Rowan and Duncan Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’,
The Guardian
(18 December 1995).
10.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
11.
Ibid.
12.
Ibid.
13.
Rowan and Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’.
14.
Ibid.
15.
Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.
16.
Myra Hindley, letter, 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
17.
Peter Topping,
Topping: The Autobiography of the Police Chief in the Moors Murders Case
(London: Angus and Robertson, 1989), pp. 134–5. Ian Brady strongly disputes Hindley’s claim: ‘It is fashionable nowadays to blame one’s faults and crimes on abuse as a child. I had a happy childhood. But Myra Hindley’s allegations obviously are framed to exploit a variation of the theme.’ (Anon., ‘Keep Hindley in Jail, Says Ex-Lover Brady’, BBC News online, [27 August 1998].)
3
1.
Myra Hindley, letter, 2 March 1999. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
2.
Joe Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
(London: Chipmunka Publishing, 2009).
3.
Duncan Staff,
The Lost Boy: The Definitive Story of the Moors Murders and the Search for the Final Victim
(London: Bantam Books, 2008), p. 67.
4.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
5.
Myra Hindley, autobiography. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.
6.
Staff,
The Lost Boy
, p. 71.
7.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
8.
Ibid.
9.
David Rowan and Duncan Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’,
The Guardian
(18 December 1995).
10.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
11.
Ibid.
12.
Ibid.
13.
Frances Hodgson Burnett,
The Secret Garden
(1911), online edition at the Free Library by Farlex (
www.burnett.thefreelibrary.com
).
14.
Ibid.
15.
Ibid.
16.
Dominic Sandbrook,
Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
(London: Abacus, 2006), p. 48.
17.
Myra Hindley, autobiography. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.
18.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
19.
Fred Harrison,
Brady and Hindley: The Genesis of the Moors Murders
(London: Grafton Books, 1987), pp. 47–8.
20.
John Deane Potter,
The Monsters of the Moors: The Full Account of the Brady–Hindley Case
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), p. 243.
21.
David Marchbanks,
The Moor Murders
(London: Leslie Frewin, 1966), p. 126.
22.
Anne Murdoch, author interview, Manchester, 28 May 2009.
23.
Jean Ritchie,
Myra Hindley: Inside the Mind of a Murderess
(London: Grafton Books, 1988), p. 5. With kind permission of Jean Ritchie, copyright 2010.
24.
National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/110.
25.
Marchbanks,
The Moor Murders
, p. 122.
26.
Allan Grafton, author interview, Manchester, 25 August 2009. Bob Hindley received financial compensation for his works accident, which enabled him to sponsor the football team.
27.
Ibid.
28.
In
The Lost Boy
, Staff mistakenly refers to Beasley Street and Bannock Street as if they were two separate places.
29.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
30.
Ibid.
31.
Myra Hindley, autobiography. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.
32.
Mo Stratham, author interview, York, 26 March 2009.
33.
Gorton & Openshaw Reporter
(21 June 1957).
34.
Ibid.
35.
Ibid.
36.
Born to Kill?: Myra Hindley
, documentary (Stax Entertainment, 2006).
37.
Harrison,
Brady and Hindley
, p. 47.
38.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
39.
Allan Grafton, author interview, Manchester, 25 August 2009.
40.
Ibid.
41.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
42.
Ibid.
43.
Ibid.
44.
Ibid.
45.
Rowan and Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’.
46.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
4
1.
Gorton & Openshaw Reporter
(19 July 1957).
2.
Dominic Sandbrook,
Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
(London: Abacus, 2006) pp. 29–30.
3.
Ibid. p. 460.
4.
Ibid. p. 464.
5.
Myra Hindley and Nina Wilde, ‘Older and Wiser’,
Verdict
(January 1996).
6.
Joe Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
(London: Chipmunka Publishing, 2009).
7.
Jean Ritchie,
Myra Hindley: Inside the Mind of a Murderess
(London: Grafton Books, 1988) p. 17.
8.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
9.
David Marchbanks,
The Moor Murders
(London: Leslie Frewin, 1966), p. 127.
10.
Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 10.
11.
Allan Grafton, author interview, Manchester, 25 August 2009.
12.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
13.
Marchbanks,
The Moor Murders
, p. 127.
14.
Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.
15.
Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 12.
16.
David Rowan and Duncan Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’,
The Guardian
(18 December 1995).
17.
Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.
18.
Allan Grafton, author interview, Manchester, 25 August 2009.
19.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
20.
Ibid.
21.
Rowan and Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’.
22.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
23.
Ibid.
24.
Rowan and Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’.
25.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
26.
Ibid.
27.
Rowan and Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’.
Part III – This Cemetery of Your Making: 21 December 1960 – 6 October 1965
5
1.
David Rowan and Duncan Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’,
The Guardian
(18 December 1995).
2.
Joe Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
(London: Chipmunka Publishing, 2009).
3.
Ibid.
4.
Jonathan Goodman,
The Moors Murders: The Trial of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady
(London: Magpie Books, 1994), p. 13.
5.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
6.
Earlier sources claim the engagement ended in 1960, but Hindley firmly dates the break-up as occurring during her first months at Millwards.
7.
Rowan and Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’.
8.
Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.
9.
Ibid.
10.
Duncan Staff, ‘Portrait of a Serial Killer’,
The Guardian
(18 November 2002).
11.
Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.
12.
Rowan and Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’.
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