One of Your Own (62 page)

13.
   Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.

14.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

15.
   Ibid.

16.
   Ibid.

17.
   Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.

18.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

19.
   Rowan and Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’.

20.
   Ibid.

21.
   Dominic Sandbrook,
Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
(London: Abacus, 2006), p. 572.

22.
   Rowan and Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’.

23.
   Ibid.

24.
   Janie Jones,
The Devil and Miss Jones: The Twisted Mind of Myra Hindley
(London: Smith Gryphon, 1988), pp.122–3.

25.
   Hindley told her prison therapist that it was months before she and Brady progressed sexually, but the account in her autobiography is one she frequently repeated elsewhere.

26.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
. Although Myra does not give a precise date to which Christmas Eve, it must be 1961 since it was before the murders. By the end of 1962, she had renounced religion.

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

28.
   Peter Topping,
Topping: The Autobiography of the Police Chief in the Moors Murders Case
(London: Angus and Robertson, 1989), p. 111.

29.
   Myra Hindley, autobiography. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.

30.
   Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.

31.
   Peter Gillman and Leni Gillman, ‘I had a very happy childhood free of fear . . . I have no excuses – Ian Brady’,
The Mail on Sunday
(15 May 2005).

32.
   Ibid.

33.
   Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.

34.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

35.
   Gillman and Gillman, ‘I had a very happy childhood . . .’.

36.
   Rowan and Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’.

37.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

38.
   Topping,
Topping
, p. 126.

1.
     Peter Gillman and Leni Gillman, ‘I had a very happy childhood free of fear . . . I have no excuses – Ian Brady’,
The Mail on Sunday
(15 May 2005).

2.
     Ibid.

3.
     Cal McCrystal, ‘What Made the Gorbals Famous?’,
The Independent
(31 January 1993).

4.
     Colin MacFarlane,
The Real Gorbals Story: True Tales from Glasgow’s Meanest Streets
(Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 2007), p. 15.

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

6.
     In a probable publicity stunt, Italian solicitor Giovanni Di Stefano claims to have uncovered the truth about his client’s father, whom he describes as ‘a relatively well-known Scottish professional’, but Brady has declared that he does not wish to know the man’s identity.

7.
     Gillman and Gillman, ‘I had a very happy childhood . . .’.

8.
     Jonathan Goodman,
The Moors Murders: The Trial of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady
(London: Magpie Books, 1994), p. 10.

9.
     Gillman and Gillman, ‘I had a very happy childhood . . .’.

10.
   Fred Harrison,
Brady and Hindley: The Genesis of the Moors Murders
(London: Grafton Books, 1987), p. 22.

11.
   Gillman and Gillman, ‘I had a very happy childhood . . .’.

12.
   Ian Brady,
The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and its Analysis
(Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001), p. 198.

13.
   Peter Topping,
Topping: The Autobiography of the Police Chief in the Moors Murders Case
(London: Angus and Robertson, 1989), p. 245.

14.
   Brady,
The Gates of Janus
, p. 92.

15.
   Goodman,
The Moors Murders
, p. 11.

16.
   Robert Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples: Moors Murders
(Dorset: Javelin Books, 1986), p. 22.

17.
   Brady,
The Gates of Janus
, p. 23.

18.
   Ibid.

19.
   Gillman and Gillman, ‘I had a very happy childhood . . .’.

20.
   Ibid.

21.
   Goodman,
The Moors Murders
, p. 11.

22.
   Brady,
The Gates of Janus
, p. 8.

23.
   Ibid., p. 93.

24.
   Harrison,
Brady and Hindley
, p. 23. Brady’s confessions to Fred Harrison should be treated with caution. Although he finally admitted to Harrison that he and Hindley had murdered Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett, he also provided Harrison with misleading information and falsely claimed accountability for several other murders. Hindley, when questioned in the 1980s, told detectives Brady had never mentioned the ‘Face of Death’ to her.

25.
   Ibid. p. 24.

26.
   Ibid., p. 29.

27.
   Brady,
The Gates of Janus
, p. 8.

28.
   Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.

29.
   Ibid.

30.
   David Marchbanks,
The Moor Murders
(London: Leslie Frewin, 1966), p. 117.

31.
   Ibid.

32.
   Harrison,
Brady and Hindley
, p. 26.

33.
   Christine Hart,
The Devil’s Daughter
(Essex: New Author Publications, 1993), p. 225.

34.
   Bernard Mahoney,
Vice Magazine
, ‘The A–Z of Law and Disorder’ (July 2006). The Criminal Justice Act of 1982 abolished borstals and replaced them with youth custody centres.

35.
   Emlyn Williams,
Beyond Belief: The Moors Murderers – The Story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
(London: Pan, 1968), p. 93.

36.
   Journalists always refer to him as Philip Deare; Peter Topping, who investigated his death, insists his name was Gil Deares.

37.
   Brady,
The Gates of Janus
, p. 93.

38.
   Marchbanks,
The Moor Murders
, pp. 118–19.

39.
   Williams,
Beyond Belief
, p. 94.

40.
   Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.

41.
   Ian Brady’s landlady unwittingly rented out another of her properties in the street to a second murderer: Alfred Bailey, of 10 Westmoreland Street, was found guilty of strangling a six-year-old girl and was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964.

42.
   Topping,
Topping
, p. 245.

43.
   Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Crime and Punishment
(1866), online edition at Google Books (
www.books.google.co.uk
).

44.
   Brady,
The Gates of Janus
, p. 39.

45.
   Harrison,
Brady and Hindley
, p. 26.

46.
   Marchbanks,
The Moor Murders
, pp. 133–4.

47.
   Dostoevsky,
Crime and Punishment
.

48.
   The term ‘black light’ is Brady’s own, referring to the sexual impulse; see ‘Colin Wilson at 70’ by Geoff Ward, on Wilson’s own website,
www.colinwilsonworld.co.uk

1.
     Peter Topping,
Topping: The Autobiography of the Police Chief in the Moors Murders Case
(London: Angus and Robertson, 1989), p. 136.

2.
     Ian Brady disputes these nicknames, but family members and friends assert they were used. When she was imprisoned, Myra called a close friend by another
Goon
-inspired nickname: Eccles, played by Spike Milligan.

3.
     Ian Brady,
The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and its Analysis
(Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001), p. 21.

4.
     Fred Harrison,
Brady and Hindley: The Genesis of the Moors Murders
(London: Grafton Books, 1987), p. 54.

5.
     Dominic Sandbrook,
Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
(London: Abacus, 2006), p. 596.

6.
     Jean Ritchie,
Myra Hindley: Inside the Mind of a Murderess
(London: Grafton Books, 1988), pp. 34–5.

7.
     Harrison,
Brady and Hindley
, p. 57.

8.
     Myra Hindley, letter, 3 June 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

9.
     Joe Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
(London: Chipmunka Publishing, 2009)

10.
   Ibid.

11.
   Ibid.

12.
   ‘If you enjoy . . .’, D.J. Enright,
Conspirators and Poets
(London: Chatto & Windus, 1966); ‘If crime is . . .’, Marquis de Sade,
Justine
, online edition at Globusz Publishing (
www.globusz.com
).

13.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

14.
   Brady,
The Gates of Janus
, p. 214.

15.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

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

17.
   
The Guardian
, ‘Myra Hindley in Her Own Words’, 29 February 2000.

18.
   Helen Birch,
Moving Targets: Women, Murder and Representation
(London: Virago, 1993), p. 41.

19.
   Brady,
The Gates of Janus
, p. 43.

20.
   Duncan Staff, ‘Myra Hindley in Her Own Words’,
The Guardian
(29 February 2000).

21.
   Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.

22.
   John Deane Potter,
The Monsters of the Moors: The Full Account of the Brady–Hindley Case
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), p. 250.

23.
   David Marchbanks,
The Moor Murders
(London: Leslie Frewin, 1966), p. 134.

24.
   
Born to Kill?: Myra Hindley
, documentary (Stax Entertainment, 2006).

25.
   Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.

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

27.
   Brady,
The Gates of Janus
, p. 43.