This story involves crimes against children. At times when putting this one together I just

had to get up and walk away. That's a horrible story. So please keep that in mind before

continuing. The Maurs in England have been a matter of interest and discussion ever since

their immortalisation in Emily Bronti's Wuthering Heights, where they are described as

never ending, wild and even maddening. In Thomas Hardy's Tess of the Derbyvillse, he

chose the English Maurs as a metaphor for fear, ignorance and savagery. The Sutterworth

Maur is an area covering 400 square miles in the peak district of North West England,

more widely known as Greater Manchester. Sutterworth Maur is a rich mixture of sweeping valleys,

hills and pluttos, falling away to fast-flowing streams. Rocky formations jut out of the

blanket-ed dense peak grass that covers the area. The soil is poor and so only the hardest

of vegetation survives. Steening at 1,312 feet above sea level, thick-mourning fog appears

like clout, barely lifting from the ground. The yeary stillness and silence is deafening.

Its immensity is both daunting as well as fascinating. However, in the 1960s, the Maurs

came to the world's attention in a very different, frightening light. They became the scene

for some of the most notorious and sadistic crimes committed in Britain. The infamous

Maurs murders.

Maira Hindley was born on the 23rd of July 1942. Her mother, Nellie, was 22 years old at

the time. Her father Bob wasn't home for the birth. He was fighting in the Second World

War. After Maira's birth, Nellie moved in with her mother, Ellen. Ellen lived in Gorton,

an area of the city of Manchester, in North West England. Ellen became affectionately known

as Grand Tamira. Nellie and Maira lived with Grand until the war ended in 1945, and

Bob Hindley returned home. Bob and Nellie moved into a house in the same street as Grand.

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