Episode 50 - The Moors Murders: Beyond Redemption - Part 1

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True Crime

4.5 • 18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Between 1963 and 1965, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - a seemingly ordinary pair of twenty-somethings abducted, tortured and killed 5 children in North West England. The Moors Murders, so named because the victims' bodies were found on the barren and remote Saddleworth Moor, still remain Britain's most infamous case half a century later.

But what drove these two to commit crimes so heinous that they scarred the psyche of a generation?

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0:55.6	These were Ian Brady's last words to journalist Bob Rogers, a man he'd been in constant touch with
1:00.3	during the last part of his life in Ashworth's psychiatric hospital.
1:03.6	A month to us, this phrase may accurately describe Brady, the notorious Charles killer.
1:08.5	He, of course, was referring not to himself, but to those who had kept him incarcerated for 51 years.
1:14.0	Because until his death caused by a chronic lung condition in May 2017 at the age of 79,
1:19.5	Brady had served half a century for the torture and murder of five children in Manchester, England,
1:24.6	between 1963 and 1965. Today we are covering arguably Britain's most notorious crime,
1:30.4	the Maure's murders. So named because the bodies of the young victims who were found were
1:34.6	discovered on the barren remote and windswet plains of Saddleworth more in the penines in North
1:39.2	West England. And if you don't have a mental image of the Maure's, I've been trying to think of
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