Article: Myra Hindley, R.I.P.(The Providence Journal)

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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