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14.
   Margaret Mounsey, author interview, Preston, 14 July 2009.

15.
   Ian Brady, police interview. See footnote 25, chapter 8.

16.
   Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.

17.
   Myra Hindley, police interview. See footnote 25, chapter 8.

18.
   Myra Hindley, autobiography. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.

19.
   Hindley was told to stand, not shoved into a chair as she claimed in a letter to journalist Duncan Staff.

20.
   Ian Brady, evidence given at trial. See footnote 25, chapter 8.

21.
   Ibid.

22.
   Ibid.

23.
   David Rowan and Duncan Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’,
The Guardian
(18 December 1995).

24.
   A member of staff at Longsight Library noticed that Brady was late in returning his books; his fines amounted to 4s 3d. She sent him a reminder, but the postcard was sent back marked, ‘Gone away.’

25.
   Hindley told Peter Topping that she thought Brady had kept the receipt in his wallet; it was only later that she admitted to knowing where it was hidden.

26.
   Williams,
Beyond Belief
, p. 323.

27.
   Clive Entwistle, author interview, Leeds, 3 August 2009.

28.
   Williams,
Beyond Belief
, p. 323.

29.
   Jean Ritchie,
Myra Hindley: Inside the Mind of a Murderess
(London: Grafton Books, 1988), p. 38.

30.
   In his notes for
Beyond Belief
, Emlyn Williams wrote: ‘Terrific funerals for children but Evans hardly noticed.’

31.
   Myra Hindley, police interview. See footnote 25, chapter 8.

32.
   Williams,
Beyond Belief
, p. 352.

33.
   Emlyn Williams Collection, Myra Hindley, letter, 14 October 1965, ref: L3/6A, National Library of Wales.

34.
   After her daughter’s disappearance, Ann asked to be re-housed by the council. Her new home was at Bowden Close, Hattersley – a few streets from the house where her daughter had been murdered.

35.
   Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.

36.
   The road is named after a pub on the moor that was destroyed by fire.

37.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 92.

38.
   Carol and David Waterhouse were also questioned by the police but were unable to contribute anything to the investigation.

39.
   Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009.

40.
   Ibid.

41.
   Ibid.

1.
     Clive Entwistle, author interview, Leeds, 3 August 2009.

2.
     Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009. Fairley disputes how the discovery of the cases has been reported: ‘Talbot wasn’t there, and the photos weren’t in a halibut-oil tin – not the ones we saw. They were in a bundle. What was written about how they were found is bollocks. I’m sure there
was
a roll of prints in a halibut-oil tin, but I know for a fact that’s not how we found them, and apart from Clive Entwistle’s father-in-law we were the first people to go through those suitcases.’

3.
     Ibid.

4.
     Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009.

5.
     Ibid.

6.
     
The Moors Murders
, documentary (Chameleon TV, 1999).

7.
     Sandra Ratcliffe, ‘Why Myra Must Never Be Freed’,
Daily Record
(29 October 1997).

8.
     Bob Spiers, author interview, Preston, 15 July 2009.

9.
     Dr David Gee, witness statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.

10.
   Ibid.

11.
   Tom McVittie, telephone interview, 25 July 2009.

12.
   Clive Entwistle, author interview, Leeds, 3 August 2009.

13.
   Bob Spiers, author interview, Preston, 15 July 2009.

14.
   Dr David Gee, witness statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.

15.
   Ann West,
For the Love of Lesley: Moors Murders Remembered by a Victim’s Mother
(London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1989), pp. 74–6.

16.
   Ian Brady,
The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and its Analysis
(Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001), p. 278.

17.
   Ian Brady, police interview. See footnote 25, chapter 8.

18.
   Hindley later told Peter Topping that she didn’t know Lesley had been found when the detectives played her the tape, but Lesley’s clothes were shown to her on this same date.

19.
   Clifford Haigh, witness statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.

20.
   Peter Topping,
Topping: The Autobiography of the Police Chief in the Moors Murders Case
(London: Angus and Robertson, 1989), p. 102.

21.
   Ibid., p. 142.

22.
   Janie Jones,
The Devil and Miss Jones: The Twisted Mind of Myra Hindley
(London: Smith Gryphon, 1988), p. 146.

1.
     Anon.,
Manchester Evening News
(19 October 1965). The press felt Brady and Hindley might be responsible for Susan’s disappearance and the
Manchester Evening News
ran an article about her alongside their ‘moor report’: ‘Heartbroken mother of a missing Manchester teenage girl, Mrs Margaret Ormrod, today told of attempts by her daughter to sell two girls’ suits and of a visit to a house in Denton. For four months since her daughter Susan vanished from her home . . . Mrs Ormrod prayed for a clue to her whereabouts. Mrs Ormrod said the week before Susan vanished she was highly nervous and frightened of somebody. She brought the clothes home and asked me, did I know anyone who would buy them? When I asked whose they were, she would not say. But I was later told by a friend that she had told her, “If I don’t sell these, he will murder me.” Mrs Ormrod was also told of a visit to a house in Denton. “When I went to visit it, the woman next door told me the screams of girls who went in were shocking.” Susan, who looks much older than her actual age, disappeared shortly after giving her notice at the hotel where she had worked since leaving Newall Green Secondary School.’ Susan was 5 ft 6 in. tall, with gold-tinted hair. In his 1966–7 notes, Emlyn Williams refers to: ‘Pauline Reade, 16, Keith Bennett, 12, Susan Ormrod, 16.’

Prosecutor William Mars-Jones also discussed Pauline, Keith and Susan as potential victims of Brady and Hindley, while in other notes Williams writes: ‘Also police search for John Betteridge (8), Fallowfield. WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?’ (Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales).

2.
     James Stansfield, ‘Diary of a Supercop: The Mounsey Memoirs’,
Evening Gazette
(2 August 1988).

3.
     Mike Massheder, author interview, Preston, 1 July 2009.

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

5.
     Anon.,
Manchester Evening News
(20 October 1965).

6.
     Ibid.

7.
     Ibid.

8.
     Ibid.

9.
     Several books, including
The Lost Boy
, wrongly date the discovery of the left luggage receipt as occurring on Friday, 15 October.

10.
   Mike Massheder, author interview, Preston, 1 July 2009.

11.
   Ibid.

12.
   John Chaddock, witness statement. See footnote 25, chapter 8.

13.
   Mike Massheder, author interview, Preston, 1 July 2009.

14.
   Ibid.

15.
   Ibid.

16.
   Margaret Mounsey, author interview, Preston, 14 July 2009.

17.
   Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.

18.
   
The Moors Murders
, documentary (Chameleon TV, 1999).

19.
   Ibid.

20.
   Anon.,
Gorton & Openshaw Reporter
(29 October 1965).

21.
   A question mark hangs over whether or not Myra’s old home on Bannock Street was searched. In
Beyond Belief
, Emlyn Williams claimed it had already been razed, but, according to Manchester City Corporation records, the odd-numbered houses in Bannock Street were not demolished until August 1972. Benfield told Fred Harrison that he believed the house had been searched, while Talbot, then retired in Cheshire, refused to be drawn on the subject. Among the Emlyn Williams archives is a letter dated 23 September 1968, from Canon Lewis of St James’s Rectory in Gorton to Williams’s publisher, stating that the house had not yet been pulled down as part of the slum clearances: ‘. . . we are still waiting for that happy event to reach Gorton. The house in question, and others around it, were cleared to make a site for a new Church secondary school to replace St James’, among others.’ (Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.)

22.
   Robert Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples: Moors Murders
(Dorset: Javelin Books, 1986), p. 83.

23.
   Ibid.

24.
   Anon.,
Gorton & Openshaw Reporter
(29 October 1965).

25.
   Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples
, p. 87.

26.
   No charges were brought against either of the men. Patrick Downey bought himself a gun but was persuaded to give it up by his wife. He and his brother were told not to attend the main trial.

27.
   Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples
, p. 87.

28.
   Unless otherwise stated, Brady and Hindley’s interviews with the police are based on the accounts given in Goodman,
The Moors Murders
.

29.
   Margaret Mounsey recalls: ‘When we lived in Ashton-under-Lyne, at the time of the search, I remember going with a couple of the other police wives into this shop where we all bought our make-up and the girl behind the counter said, “Hey, you know that woman who’s up for murder? She comes in here to buy her make-up too.” Myra definitely shopped in Ashton-under-Lyne, although she tried to convince the prosecution otherwise.’ (Margaret Mounsey, author interview, Preston, 14 July 2009.)

30.
   Mike Massheder, author interview, Preston, 1 July 2009.

31.
   David Marchbanks,
The Moor Murders
(London: Leslie Frewin, 1966), p. 84.

32.
   Mike Massheder, author interview, Preston, 1 July 2009.

33.
   Contrary to common belief, Brady could drive a car and admitted that to detectives Haigh and Talbot on 18 October. He said he only drove on private land.

34.
   
The Moors Murders
, documentary (Chameleon TV, 1999).

35.
   Tom McVittie, telephone interview, 25 July 2009.

36.
   Myra Hindley, police interview. See footnote 25, chapter 8.

37.
   Ian Brady, police interview. See footnote 25, chapter 8.

38.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 27 July 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.