One of Your Own (64 page)

45.
   David Rowan and Duncan Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’,
The Guardian
(18 December 1995).

46.
   Topping,
Topping
, p. 86.

47.
   It isn’t clear when they disposed of the spade. Hindley gave a verbal account of using the same spade for the first three murders, but, in writing, she stated that they bought another spade for the next murder.

48.
   Staff, ‘Myra Hindley in her own Words’. In the account she gave to Duncan Staff, Hindley stated that she took a couple of Nembutals and put on clean underwear and a dressing gown before drifting off to sleep with Brady in front of the fire; they ‘celebrated’ with the Drambuie the following night.

49.
   Brady,
The Gates of Janus
, p. 44.

50.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

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.
     Ian Brady,
The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and its Analysis
(Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001), pp. 86–7.

4.
     Ibid., p. 53.

5.
     Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

6.
     Ibid.

7.
     Rowan and Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’.

8.
     Christine Hart,
The Devil’s Daughter
(Essex: New Author Publications, 1993), p. 246.

9.
     
The Day of the Triffids
/
The Legion’s Last Patrol
1962 Press Sheet. Brady misremembers the film as
The Last Patrol
. It isn’t clear whether he gave Hindley the record before or after Pauline’s murder.

10.
   Allan Grafton, author interview, Manchester, 25 August 2009.

11.
   
Gorton & Openshaw Reporter
(19 July 1963).

12.
   Ibid.

13.
   Steve Boggan, ‘Brady Told Me that I Would be in a Grave’,
The Independent
(15 August 1998).

14.
   
Gorton & Openshaw Reporter
(2 August 1963).

15.
   Allan Grafton, author interview, Manchester, 25 August 2009.

16.
   
The Moors Murders
, documentary (Chameleon TV, 1999).

17.
   Duncan Staff, ‘Hindley Tried to Join Police after First Killing’,
The Guardian
(28 February 2000).

18.
   Ibid.

19.
   Ibid.

20.
   Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.

21.
   Allan Grafton, author interview, Manchester, 25 August 2009.

22.
   David Marchbanks,
The Moor Murders
(London: Leslie Frewin, 1966), pp. 134–5.

23.
   Fred Harrison,
Brady and Hindley: The Genesis of the Moors Murders
(London: Grafton Books, 1987), p. 105.

24.
   Ibid., p. 106.

25.
   At their trial, Brady said the revolvers were bought in July 1964.

26.
   Boggan, ‘Brady Told Me that I Would Be in a Grave’.

27.
   Myra Hindley, autobiography. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.

28.
   Staff, ‘Hindley Tried to Join Police after First Killing’. Norman Sutton left the police force when the news of his affair with Myra Hindley broke. He and his wife eventually divorced. Duncan Staff tracked him down to a nursing home in Blackpool where he had little to say about the relationship. In her prison cell, Hindley pinned
The
Sun
’s front-page story about their affair to the wall above her bed. It was still there when she died.

29.
   Presumably Hindley either still had the use of the Ford Prefect van or had borrowed someone else’s car; Brady’s memory of the event is very clear.

30.
   Brady,
The Gates of Janus
, p. 53.

31.
   Harrison,
Brady and Hindley
, p. 104.

32.
   Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales. Mrs Kilbride was talking to Emlyn Williams. In
Beyond Belief
, he advanced the theory that Kennedy’s assassination provided a psychological trigger for the murder of John Kilbride, but when Topping questioned Brady and Hindley separately about the matter, they both insisted that it was a coincidence. The abduction vehicle had already been hired for 23 November 1963.

1.
     Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.

2.
     Ibid.

3.
     Robert Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples: Moors Murders
(Dorset: Javelin Books, 1986), p. 28.

4.
     Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.

5.
     Ibid.

6.
     Hindley told Peter Topping that she bought the wig after Pauline’s murder, potentially contradicting her claim that she didn’t realise other murders would follow.

7.
     Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.

8.
     John Ryan, witness statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.

9.
     Duncan Staff,
The Lost Boy: The Definitive Story of the Moors Murders and the Search for the Final Victim
(London: Bantam Books, 2008), p. 219.

10.
   Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.

11.
   Ibid.

12.
   Hindley couldn’t remember seeing Brady remove the spade from the boot when he and John walked onto the moor; if he had, then John would have realised that something was terribly wrong. But she insisted that Ian had buried John before returning to the car.

13.
   Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples
, p. 29.

14.
   Peter Topping,
Topping: The Autobiography of the Police Chief in the Moors Murders Case
(London: Angus and Robertson, 1989), p. 180.

15.
   Ian Brady,
The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and its Analysis
(Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001), p. 175.

16.
   Duncan Staff, ‘Myra Hindley in Her Own Words’,
The Guardian
(29 February 2000).

17.
   Ibid.

18.
   Mike Massheder, author interview, Preston, 1 July 2009.

19.
   Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.

20.
   Peter Cantwell, witness statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.

21.
   Brady,
The Gates of Janus
, p. 104.

22.
   Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.

23.
   Ibid.

24.
   
Manchester Evening News
(29 November 1963).

25.
   
The Moors Murders
, documentary (Chameleon TV, 1999).

26.
   Staff, ‘Myra Hindley In Her Own Words’.

27.
   Anon., ‘Mass Hunt for a Boy’,
The Reporter
(6 December 1963).

28.
   Emlyn Williams,
Beyond Belief: The Moors Murderers – The Story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
(London: Pan, 1968), p. 27.

29.
   Fred Harrison,
Brady and Hindley: The Genesis of the Moors Murders
(London: Grafton Books, 1987), p. 111.

30.
   Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.

31.
   Ibid.

32.
   Staff,
The Lost Boy
, p. 224.

1.
     Dominic Sandbrook,
Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
(London: Abacus, 2006), pxxv. Harold Macmillan resigned as Prime Minister in October 1963, citing ill health. His place was taken by the Conservative Alec Douglas-Home until October 1964, when Labour’s Harold Wilson came to power.

2.
     Ibid., pxxiii.

3.
     Ibid., p. 735.

4.
     Anon., ‘We Had Finished Killing, Says Brady’,
Manchester Evening News
(28 October 2005).

5.
     Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.

6.
     Joe Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
(London: Chipmunka Publishing, 2009).

7.
     Peter Topping,
Topping: The Autobiography of the Police Chief in the Moors Murders Case
(London: Angus and Robertson, 1989), p. 94.

8.
     Jean Ritchie,
Myra Hindley: Inside the Mind of a Murderess
(London: Grafton Books, 1988), p. 54.

9.
     Peter Gould, ‘Still Missing After Forty Years’, BBC News online (16 June 2004).

10.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 51.

11.
   Brady disputed Hindley’s account to Topping: he insisted that she had picked Keith up on her own, then drove to Ardwick to meet him, coincidentally, at Bennett Street. Topping did not believe him.

12.
   Topping,
Topping
, p. 95.

13.
   Hindley told Topping that Brady definitely wasn’t carrying a spade. She thought he must have hidden it earlier, alone, before they brought Keith Bennett to the moor.

14.
   Topping,
Topping
, p. 96.

15.
   Ibid.

16.
   Hindley insisted Brady buried the spade but doesn’t explain how he managed to do so satisfactorily without the use of another implement; it would have needed to be buried deep to prevent its discovery. Shale, a sedimentary rock, isn’t particularly easy to dig into by hand.

17.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 52.

18.
   Anon., ‘Tracker Dogs Join Hunt for Lost Boy’,
Manchester Evening News
(19 June 1964).

19.
   Ibid.

20.
   Anon., ‘Missing Boys and the Two Mothers Who Wait’,
Manchester Evening News
(June 1964).

21.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 53.

22.
   Ibid., pp. 53–4.

23.
   Ibid.

24.
   Anon., ‘Longsight Boy Still Missing’,
Gorton & Openshaw Reporter
(3 July 1964).

25.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 54.

26.
   Fred Harrison,
Brady and Hindley: The Genesis of the Moors Murders
(London: Grafton Books, 1987), p. 116.

27.
   Anon., ‘Galway Man Who Turned in the Moors Murderers’,
Ireland on Sunday
(undated).

28.
   Harrison,
Brady and Hindley
, p. 115.

29.
   Anon., ‘Smith Alleges He Saw Brady Kill Youth in House with Axe’,
The Reporter
(10 December 1965).