How England's Most Gruesome Killers Were Caught

Few serial killer couples evoke as much repulsion and horror as Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, who were known as the 'Moors murderers.' Between 1963 and 1964, this couple snatched children and teenagers off the streets, sexually assaulted them, murdered them and then buried them on the bleak Saddleworth Moor in North West England. Their sadistic crimes shocked the nation to its very core and the details are so horrific that they still resonate over five decades later.
Their first victim was 16-year-old Pauline Reade, who vanished on the way to a disco near her home in Gorton, Manchester, on the 12th of July, 1963. It would take two decades for her parents to uncover what had happened to her. Her body was found buried on Saddleworth Moor after a three-month search in 1987. 
Four months after Pauline was abducted and murdered, Brady and Hindley took another victim: 12-year-old John Kilbride. He was lured to Saddleworth Moor where he was sexually assaulted and then murdered. His grave was unearthed in 1965; Brady had taken a photograph of Hindley standing on the edge of his grave which aided in the search. 
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