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Article: Myra Hindley, R.I.P.(The Providence Journal)
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- November 21, 2002
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WASHINGTON _ If every nation has its crime of the century, the Moors Murders were Britain's.
During a two-year period in the early 1960s, five young people vanished in the north of England. Their disappearance might well have remained a mystery had not a 24-year-old woman named Myra Hindley forced her brother-in-law to watch while she and her boyfriend, Ian Brady, butchered a 17-year-old boy named Edward Evans. The brother-in-law fled the scene, called police, and Hindley and Brady were arrested and tried for the murders of Evans and Lesley Ann Downey, 10. (They had also killed two 12-year-old boys, John Kilbride and Keith Bennett, and 16-year-old Pauline Reade.) ...
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Article: Death of Myra Hindley: Torrent of reaction flows ...
The Birmingham Post (England);
November 16, 2002 ;
700+ words
... ... authorities believed that Myra Hindley did show remorse ... important to remember that Myra Hindley was only one of 23 people ... course of the year. 'Myra Hindley spent most of her life ... It was when Lesley Ann Downey (one of the victims ...
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