One of Your Own (70 page)

53.
   Sara Trevelyan, author interview, Edinburgh, 24 June 2009.

54.
   Anne Maguire, author interview, London, 29 July 2009.

55.
   There had already been one play about the Moors case; in 1970, a theatre in Germany staged
Pre-Paradise Sorry Now
, which has recently been revived.

56.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 16 May 1977. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/148. The correspondent’s name has been blacked out by the censor.

57.
   Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples
, p. 172.

58.
   Ibid.

59.
   Jones,
The Devil and Miss Jones
, p. 218.

60.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 1 August 1977. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/110.

61.
   Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples
, p. 173.

62.
   Ibid.

63.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 26 April 1978. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/110.

64.
   Internal memo, 24 October 1978. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/22.

65.
   Internal memo, 24 October 1978. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/22.

66.
   Internal memo, 18 December 1978. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/22.

67.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 202.

68.
   Jones,
The Devil and Miss Jones
, p. 134.

69.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, pp. 202–3.

70.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 16 January 1979. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/22.

71.
   Myra Hindley letter, 18 January 1979. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/22.

72.
   Internal memo, 13 March 1979. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/22.

1.
     Robert Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples: Moors Murders
(Dorset: Javelin Books, 1986), p. 175.

2.
     David Smith paid a moving visit to his ex-wife, at Bill’s request – he hoped Dave’s presence might rouse Maureen from her coma. Eventually, Dave and his wife Mary, together with their daughter Jodie and three sons, moved from Hyde to Lincoln after becoming the focus of a hate campaign by residents in Hyde. Although they were resistant to giving in to such tactics, they decided to leave for the sake of their children.

3.
     Jean Ritchie,
Myra Hindley: Inside the Mind of a Murderess
(London: Grafton Books, 1988), p. 240.

4.
     Elizabeth Longford also wrote to Myra’s mother: ‘. . . I do understand the agony of a mother like yourself. It seems so terribly unnatural that a young and happy girl should leave this world before her own mother.’ (Duncan Staff, ‘Dangerous Liaison’,
The Guardian
[14 October 2006]).

5.
     Anne Maguire, author interview, London, 29 July 2009.

6.
     Myra Hindley letter, 11 July 1980. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/86.

7.
     Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 241.

8.
     Joe Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
(London: Chipmunka Publishing, 2009).

9.
     Myra Hindley letter, 27 January 1981. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/86.

10.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 186.

11.
   Internal report, 3 November 1981. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/145.

12.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 206.

13.
   Revd Peter Timms, author interview, Sussex, 28 July 2009.

14.
   Bridget Astor, author interview, London, 28 July 2009.

15.
   Revd Peter Timms, author interview, Sussex, 28 July 2009.

16.
   Ibid.

17.
   David Astor, 14 December 1982. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

18.
   Sara Trevelyan, author interview, Edinburgh, 24 June 2009.

19.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 209. According to David Staff’s
The Lost Boy
, in July 1982 Linda Melvern visited Hindley’s mother and offered to pay her gas bill in return for the tartan album.

20.
   Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples
, p. 180.

21.
   Sara Trevelyan, author interview, Edinburgh, 24 June 2009. Jimmy Boyle has since become a celebrated sculptor and novelist. He and Sara had two children before their divorce in 2000; they remain on amicable terms.

22.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 9 August 1983. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

23.
   Ibid.

24.
   Bridget Astor, author interview, London, 28 July 2009.

25.
   Patrick Downey, letter, 29 February 1984. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/26.

26.
   Internal memo, March 1984. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO36/26.

27.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 20 May 1984. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/26.

28.
   Janie Jones,
The Devil and Miss Jones: The Twisted Mind of Myra Hindley
(London: Smith Gryphon, 1988), p. 228.

29.
   Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples
, p. 184.

30.
   Hindley was granted the privilege of naming her toiletries and cosmetics on account of her ‘lifer’ status.

31.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 229.

32.
   Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples
, p. 180.

33.
   Fred Harrison,
Brady and Hindley: The Genesis of the Moors Murders
(London: Grafton Books, 1987), p. 72.

34.
   Anne Maguire, author interview, London, 29 July 2009.

35.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, pp. 229–30.

36.
   Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.

37.
   Anon., ‘My Myra Should Die in Prison’,
The Sun
(20 June 1985).

38.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 1985. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.

39.
   Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples
, p. 190.

40.
   Brady,
The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and its Analysis
(Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001), p. 18.

41.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 258.

42.
   Ibid., pp. 260–1.

43.
   Internal memo, November 1986. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/26.

44.
   Ibid.

45.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 3 November 1986. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

46.
   Revd Peter Timms, author interview, Sussex, 28 July 2009.

47.
   Topping also had the dog handler visit woods at Whaley Bridge and Taxal, knowing that those were also favourite spots for Brady and Hindley.

48.
   Peter Topping,
Topping: The Autobiography of the Police Chief in the Moors Murders Case
(London: Angus and Robertson, 1989), p. 41.

49.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 263.

50.
   David Astor, 20 November 1986. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

51.
   Revd Peter Timms, author interview, Sussex, 28 July 2009.

52.
   Topping also consulted the original detectives who worked on the case. Ian Fairley recalls, ‘It wasn’t done properly. A chap called [Detective Inspector] Geoff Knupfer came to see me and asked what I could tell them. I said, “What do you want to know?” But he didn’t know. That’s what it came down to – he didn’t really know what to ask. Topping was so secretive . . . I could have told Knupfer more, but he didn’t know what he wanted.’ Topping himself spoke to Joe Mounsey, who had been promoted to Chief Superintendent, Head of Lancashire CID, two years after the Moors trial. His widow, Margaret, remembers, ‘Joe was interested in the new search, definitely. Topping contacted him, and I think he and Joe corresponded, but Joe basically said to him, “You’ve got the maps,” and that was about it. When they took Brady up to the moors, Joe said, “He won’t tell them a bloody thing. He won’t help.”’ (Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009).

53.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, pp. 265–6.

54.
   David Smith was also taken to the moor without being told where he was going. He was unable to help, except to tell Topping that he remembered parking at Hoe Grain with Brady and Hindley on occasion.

55.
   Journalist Robert Wilson covers the story of the case and the renewed search in his books
Devil’s Disciples
and
Return to Hell
. He spoke to Edward Evans’s mother, Edith, then 64 and living alone in a council house in a quiet Manchester suburb. She had little to say, except that she wished her son’s killers had been hung.

56.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 268.

57.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 5 February 1987. From the David Astor archive, private collection. Author’s italics.

58.
   Ibid., author’s italics.

59.
   Topping,
Topping
, p. 73.

60.
   Gerard Seenan, ‘Catholic Girl Turned Killer Whose Pleas for Redemption Fell on Deaf Ears’,
The Guardian
(16 November 2002).

61.
   Duncan Staff, ‘A Journey into Darkness’,
The Guardian
(29 February 2000).

62.
   Topping,
Topping
, p. 89.

63.
   Myra Hindley, autobiography. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.

64.
   Topping,
Topping
, p. 144.

65.
   Ibid., p. 147.

66.
   Ibid.

67.
   Ibid.

68.
   Revd Peter Timms, author interview, Sussex, 28 July 2009.

69.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 31 March 1987. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/28.

70.
   Myra Hindley, petition, 15 April 1987. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/28.

71.
   Sara Trevelyan, author interview, Edinburgh, 24 June 2009.

72.
   Psychiatric report, the Bethlehem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

73.
   Ibid.

74.
   In the aftermath of the visit, Ian sent a letter to the BBC claiming responsibility for five other killings, which the police investigated without result.

75.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 277.

76.
   Topping,
Topping
, p. 203.

77.
   Ibid., p. 209.

78.
   Ibid., p. 237.

79.
   Deed of Trust, The Open Hand. From the David Astor archive, private collection. The trust was in name only; the book was never published.