1. Myra Hindley The Moor Murderer
Brooke Schoeffel
“I ought to have been hanged. I deserved it. My crime was worse than Brady's because I enticed the children and they would never have entered the car without my role ... I have always regarded myself as worse than Brady”-Myra Hindley

2. Background
Her father was an abusive alcoholic and a hard man and taught her how to fight
When living with parents, lived in a small house and all slept in the same room
Grew up in Manchester, London
At the age of five, she was sent to live with her grandmother when her sister was born
When she was eight, a boy scratched her and her father made her fight him or he would “leather” her
She went back and beat the boy up
At 15, her close friend asked her to go swimming. She declined, but he drowned
She blamed herself for his death because she was a good swimmer and could have saved him if she was there.
After her friend died, she left school converted to Roman Catholicism
Was considered to be a very smart girl in school
First job was a junior clerk
Was really well liked, they even helped her replace her first check after she lost it
Was engaged at 17, but broke it off because she thought he couldn’t provide her with the life she wanted
At 18, she met Ian Brady and soon became infatuated and obsessed with him and completely submitted to him
Wrote about him in her dairy a lot before and after they started dating

3. Not enough evidence for conviction
Victim
Date
Crime
Punishment
Pauline Reade
July 12, 1963
Luring Pauline and driving the van
Speculation- assisting Brady in murderer and sexual assault
Not enough evidence for conviction
John Killbride
November 23, 1963
Harboring Ian Brady, with knowledge of the murder
Seven year sentence
Keith Bennett
June 16, 1964
Myra- Luring and driving the van
Brady- murder and sexual assault
Lesley Ann Downey
December 26, 1964
Luring, murder, sexual assault, rape
Life Sentence
Edward Evans
October 6, 1965
Murder

4. Most Recent Crime
-Involved with Ian Brady in the murder and sexual assault of Lesley Ann Downey Charged with 1st Degree Murder -They lured the young girl (age 10) from the fair and then took her to their house to kill and rape her. Buried her in the Saddleworth moor

5. Evidence
A 16 minute tape recording that has been confirmed to be the voices of Lesly Ann, Myra, and Ian.
Recorded the events of that night
Horrific to hear
Photographs of Lesley Ann were found
She was bound, gagged, and naked
Photographs of Myra at the moor, near the graves, lead them to find Lesley’s body

6. Sentence Sentenced to life imprisonment
Denied parole
Served at Holloway Prison
In 2002, she died of bronchial pneumonia at age 60

7. Cultural Reference Books: Movies Songs:
Myra Hindley- Inside the Mind of A Murderess
Jean Ritchie
Beyond Belief in the Moors Murderers
Emlyn Williams
Movies
Longford
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
Songs:
Suffer Little Children
The Smiths
No One Is Innocent
The Sex Pistols

8. Differential Association Theory
It’s important to take the criminal’s background into consideration when analyzing their criminal deviance. The life that he/she lived, and their psychological state, is a very important factor when seeing how they act in the present. Myra Hindley, an accomplice in the ‘Moors Murders’, seems to show signs of the differential association theory. The differential association theory shows and proves that crime is learned from the interactions with people around you. Someone is more likely to become a criminal if the people or person they highly value or have a strong influence over them has criminal tendencies. Myra Hindley had completely given herself over to Ian Brady and was overly obsessed with him. She claimed that he could make her do anything. Before meeting Brady, Myra was well liked at work, coworkers even helping her replace her first check when she lost it. Many described her as a good kid in school as well. Myra became obsessed with Brady, even though she knew that he had already had a criminal record. The relationship started out with reading about crimes and Nazi atrocities aloud to one another and watching X-rated films. Myra had even said that Brady could convince her anything and she would believe it. She became completely submitted to him. Because of this commitment and Brady’s dream to complete the perfect murder, Myra would do anything for him, including becoming his partner in crime. It’s not hard to believe that the murder of the five children soon followed.

9. Vocab
Sexual Assault-an incident that involves sexual contact that is forced on somebody
1st Degree Murder- an unlawful killing that is both willful and premeditated, meaning that it was committed after planning
Life imprisonment- a punishment in which somebody convicted of a crime must remain in prison for the rest of his or her life, or for a very lengthy period
Parole- the release of a prisoner temporarily (for a special purpose) or permanently before the completion of a sentence, on the promise of good behavior
Bronchial pneumonia- refers to a severe inflammation or swelling of the walls of the bronchioles