#235 - Patrick MacKay: Two Sides of a Psychopath - Part B (Mary Brigid Hynds)

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This is Part B of F of Patrick MacKay: Two Sides of a Psychopath, about the killing of Mary Hynds.

On Friday the 20th of July 1973, a kind and frail 75-year-old spinster called Mary Hynds was last seen entering her ground floor lodging at 4 Willes Road in Kentish Town, London. The next morning her body was discovered; she had been strangled and beaten violently about the head in a killing which has similarities to the murders of Adele Price, Isabella Griffiths and Father Anthony Crean. Police linked it to serial killer Patrick MacKay, and he confessed to the crime. But was he guilty?

This series explores the killings he confessed to, and which he committed.

Location: Ground floor/rear, 4 Willes Road, Kentish Town, London, UK, NW5
Date: Friday the 20th of July 1973, time of killing unknown
Victims: Mary Brigid Hynds
Culprit: Patrick David MacKay?

For Parts 1 to 4 covering the life of Patrick MacKay, his crimes, his trial and the three murders he was convicted of, check out Patrick MacKay: Two Sides of a Psychopath by True Crime Enthusiast

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0:00.0	Welcome to Always True Crime, a podcast network bringing you gripping real-life stories that you won't be able to stop thinking about.
0:08.2	Discover your next true crime obsession at alwaystruecrime.com.
0:19.6	Eleven days after the murder of Heidi Manilk, a lone elderly woman was brutally murdered in her own home,
0:25.6	and with Patrick Mackay having confessed to it, this was more in keeping with his method and his motive.
0:34.6	22nd of April, 1975, Cannon Road Police Station.
0:40.3	With Mackay having admitted to killing 11 people, stating,
0:44.3	All I want to do is to be frank and honest.
0:47.3	One of the eight earlier killings he was suspected of or had confessed to
0:52.3	was so compelling for the police that Mackay was charged
0:55.3	with her murder.
0:58.9	Detective Superintendent John Bland was stunned as Mary Hines was the epitome of a Mackay
1:04.4	victim.
1:06.0	An elderly lady who lived alone had potentially let her kill her in.
1:10.2	With no obvious motive motive she was strangled
1:12.3	or suffocated like Adele Price and Isabella Griffiths, bludgeoned to death like Father Anthony Crean,
1:18.6	and with little or nothing stolen, the weapon was left, the keys taken, the door locked,
1:24.6	and the body partially obscured.
1:34.1	Mackay's memory would always be an issue, being questioned about so many almost identical attacks months or years later, and as a drunk or drug abuser whose recall was clouded by what he
1:39.9	called a white mist.
1:42.4	Just as Milmo, who tried Mackay at the old Bailey, stated,
1:46.0	it is quite clear that you are not insane.
1:49.4	But subject to eruptions of violence,
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