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The book is incomplete - written a year or so after Brady and Hindley's convictions, it does not provide full accounts of two additional child murders to which Brady and Hindley confessed in the mid-1980s (though the disappearances of the children are noted in an appendix, insinuating their involvement).
In this book, many artifacts become public for the first time, including photographs from Ian Brady’s ‘Tartan album’, police interviews and witness statements, which shed vital new light on Brady, Hindley and the dangerous cocktail their union became. My heart just was so heavy thinking of what those poor children and teens went through after falling into the manipulative hands of these two. Interestingly they are mentioned at the back of the book as unsolved disappearances at the time of print, later confessed to.
His device of being the voice of Brady in the majority of the book began to irritate this reader very quickly. It is of course classed as a non fiction novel, hence my statement about the inaccuracies in the book and for that I still give this book a well deserved 4/5. I’m not saying I understand them, but, in the words of one of my favourite tv shows, Evil Lives Here, there had been signs!
The author poses questions for us as he tells us about their lives from birth through to incarceration. Now this book isn’t going to be for everyone, much like horror books/movies, but unlike horror, this has two words that can scare even the toughest of people, True Crime! The couple's vile torture and killings have shaken up British history ever since, with the couple often considered two of the most evil people to have lived. Aside from that, there is so much detailed information in this book and it makes for both horrifying but fascinating reading.I have vivid memories of the bodies being brought down to the coroner's offices and the whole, grim story being slowly revealed. An example: for one chapter dealing with the murder spree itself, Williams quotes the Dave Clark Five song " Catch Us If You Can"—as if these words described the murderers' attitude at the time. Prison letters written by Brady in 1965, which were due to remain closed until 2027, show that he made no attempt to disguise his depravity.
Ian Brady, the Moors murderer, was given books on vampirism, necrophilia and sexualised torture as he waited to be tried for his crimes, newly declassified documents have revealed. It proves beyond question that the parents of the victims were right all along in their claims about Hindley's part in the murders. Very good insight to the pair with a fair bit of new info I didn’t know, a difficult but necessary book in my opinion which I liked. I was fascinated by the similarities in the couple’s upbringing, and how both Myra and her sister Maureen, seemed to fall for similar men (although Maureen’s husband was responsible for turning the couple in to the police, he played a role in the murder of the final victim). The journey to their murdering trail was precisely planned and the team worked out how they would entice their victims, deciding that children were easier to entice and then murder.However, this one was extremely well written with great attention to detail allowing all the facts to be told from the point of view of the families as well as a glimpse into the mindset of the killers with diary excerpts and letters. The images inside, although at times hard to look at, really helped to create an overall picture of the life of these two evil humans, and their crimes. Smith was no hero, but there’s no doubt that Brady would have continued to kill had he had the chance. Myra's father was abusive, and she ended up defending her mother and sister against him more than once.
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