The Chilling Murders of the Moors Does the name Moors Murders make you scream in fear? In 1963-1965 that name would have scared many people living in England. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were the notorious couple of kidnapping young children and teens. The couple came together in 1963 and started to murder children. They would bury the victims on a desolate moor in England (“Myra” 1). Out of the two year span of the killings, the couple killed five innocent people. Eventually the two were arrested in 1966. This all started because Myra Hindley and Ian Brady wanted to perform the perfect murder. The two murders had very interesting backgrounds. Ian Brady has always been twisted. Ever since elementary school Brady misbehaved. As a …show more content…
They killed two teens and three children. Their first ever victim was Pauline Reade. The young girl was only sixteen when she was killed. She was kidnapped on the way home from the disco ( "Myra" 1). Edward Evans was the other teen they killed. He was beaten to death with a hatchet by Brady. John Kilbride was a victim of the two after they kidnapped him and murdered him hours later. He was only twelve when he died. His killing wasn’t as bad as Lesley Ann Downeys. Downey was lured into the couple’s car at a fairground. The ten year old’s murder was the worst out of all of them. She was tortured and Hindley even recorded the audio of the abuse. After hours of torture she was unfortunately killed ("Myra" 1). The last child that was murdered was Keith Bennett. His case is especially unique because his body was never found. The couple buried him on the moors but they authorities never found his remains (Tortures 2). The two would use certain techniques to pick up the victims. Hindley and Brady would drive around looking for the perfect victim. Once they found the perfect person Hindley would tell them she lost something or needed help carrying something. The victims would gladly hop into Hindley’s car and she would drive them to the moors where Brady would take them and kill them. The innocent victims were to polite to even notice they were being lured into the …show more content…
The two were arrested in 1966. They were both sentenced to life in jail, but the judge of the trial held Brady accountable for most of the murders ("Myra" 1-2). Brady was arrested after one of his friend’s witnessed the murder of Edward Evans. His friend swore not to tell the authorities, but after he left, he immediately called the police. The police showed up at the couple’s house and demanded to be let in. Hindley had to let them in and they questioned her and Brady. There was no escape. The police found Edward’s body and took Brady with them. They first arrested Brady then arrested Hindley a few days later as an accessory to the murder of Edward Evans (Moors 3-4). Brady had later said that he did not plan on going to jail. He expected to die in a shootout before he was caught. Brady wrote, “We never intended to be taken alive. Had I heard the knock instead of Myra I would’ve been prepared. We had no luck, no opportunity to exit speedily-house surrounded covertly, all roads blocked, surprise entry through the back door. Total disaster” (Tortures 2). Myra had a complete different view on the crimes they committed. She stated in court “Although by the end I had become as corrupt as Ian was, there is a distinction. I did not instigate but I knew the difference between right and wrong. I didn’t have a compulsion to kill. I wasn't in charge. But in some ways I was more culpable because I knew
When one thinks of serial killers, the first thoughts that come to that person are usually of cold blooded adults. Two young, carefree teenagers almost never come to mind, and most would never even consider the idea. Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate may just change the way people think of serial killers. The young couple rampaged across the state of Nebraska in early 1958, murdering ten people along the way. Most wonder what could cause such young people to turn into murderers with what seemed to be no conscience at all. Did Starkweather have a bad childhood? Bullying could have played a part in causing Charles to turn out the way he was. Caril Fugate became involved with Starkweather at the age of 13 and many questioned if it was possible for someone so young to have played a part in something as awful as murder. As the duo traveled, fear was struck into the public. No one knew why the victims were chosen. Did Starkweather or Fugate have a grudge against them? Were they trying to stop the two, or was it just sheer bad luck? Like most criminals, the pair was caught. They each had very different verdicts. Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate changed the history of Nebraska drastically in just a short amount of time.
“We can all say we’re never going to commit a crime, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be accused.” The trailer of Netflix’s series, Making a Murderer, begins with this statement. Before viewers have even begun watching the series, this quote prods them to go down a scary thought path. Where would you find the strength to stay hopeful while in jail? How would you prove your innocence? Would you succumb to the pressure of pleading guilty for the chance of early parole? The first seven seconds of the trailer captures the viewers’ attention, and from there they are hooked. Netflix creates the infamous good vs. evil scenario in this series. Steven Avery and his family are portrayed as the poor and innocent citizens, while the investigators and prosecutors
The Murderers Are Among Us, directed by Wolfe Gang Staudte, is the first postwar film. The film takes place in Berlin right after the war. Susan Wallner, a young women who has returned from a concentration camp, goes to her old apartment to find Hans Mertens living there. Hans took up there after returning home from war and finding out his house was destroyed. Hans would not leave, even after Susan returned home. Later on in the film we find out Hans was a former surgeon but can no longer deal with human suffering because of his traumatic experience in war. We find out about this traumatic experience when Ferdinand Bruckner comes into the film. Bruckner, Hans’ former captain, was responsible for killing hundreds
Countess Elizabeth Bathory is known as the most vicious female serial killer. Coming from a noble family in Kingdom, Hungary, no one really knows why she went out of her way torture hundreds of women. Either way throughout about a 20 year time span, Bathory spent her time not only ruling multiple castles, but taking in innocent women and children of the local men and women and making them her own. “Bathory and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of young women between 1585 and 1610” (Wikipedia 1).
From 1888-1891 a portion of London England known as Whitechapel was terrorized by a rash of murders. In total eleven women were murdered, five of those are thought to be the victim of one of the most well-known serial killers whom was never identified, Jack the Ripper. Out of the murders committed in the two year period, the five had like backgrounds, they lived in boarding houses and were prostitutes, alcoholics, or both. The women were found with their bodies lying on their backs with the legs spread apart. The victims were also found to have been murdered in like fashion with their throats had been slit and their bodies mutilated. This gave Jack the Ripper a specific modus operandi narrowing down the field of likely victims from the original total. Those five murders also took place in a time span of ten months.
dangerous man and was guilty of the murder, and who knows what else. Upon Walter’s release
Subsequently to that, in the same year the following to Hinman’ murder in which Atkins participated , the assassination of Sharon Tate who was pregnant, Steven Parent, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, and Abigail Folger took place. According to the forensic evidence the crime was describe as brutal (Wikipedia). During Atkins declaration she confesses to be the killer of Tate during her statement. “She stated that she had stabbed Tate because she was ‘sick of listening to her, pleading and begging, begging and pleading’” (Wikipedia). During trail the audience saw a lack of remorse about the crime committed by her and the Mason Family. During one her declaration she confesses t...
Jack the Ripper killed five women between the 31st of August 1888 and the 9th of November 1888. They were murdered in Whitechapel and Spitalfields in the East End areas of London, England. The killer was never caught and because of this there are hundreds on his personality and motives. No other killer in the British history rivaled that of the gruesome, mocking, utterly superior Jack the Ripper, a multiple murderer whose arrogance and boldness deified the entire police department of London and held in terror a great city for as long as he cared to roam its streets and slay at will.
The first five murders, later to be called the "Tate" murders, occurred in a house high above the city of Los Angeles. One victim (Steven Parent) was found in his car outside the house and he had been shot four times and stabbed once. Another two victims (Abigail Folger and Voytek Frykowski) were found on the back lawn of the Tate estate. Coroner's reports would later indicate that Abigail had been stabbed twenty-eight times and Voytek was shot twice, struck over the head thirteen times and stabbed
What drives a person past insanity? What drives an individual to feel no remorse, but rather a psychological relief in murderous acts? Consider all the different types of people on Earth as well as the lifestyles and situations these people are raised up in. As much as it’s desired to think the world is filled with people who carry no such thing as a bad bone in their bodies, that thought process is simple deception. The fact is that psychopaths and sociopaths hide among others in everyday environments - neighbors, teachers, family members, doctors, friends, or even the local mailman. Psychopaths are declared as people who suffer from a mental disorder causing aggression and abnormal behaviors such as their “lack of
According to the Oxford Dictionary; a serial killer is a person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern. They usually go through a cooling down period where there are no murders. Then start the killing spree back up again after the cooling down period. The killing spree usually doesn’t last more than a couple of years without the murderer being caught. And there is usually a victim type and killing style which leads to the killer being identified. This is the definition of a serial killer so why is it so commonly believed that this is a male dominated area. “However, if, as seems to be the case in many countries, the only
Serial killers differ from other types of murderers. The number of serial killers in the U.S. is staggering. Differences are clear between serial killing and conventional murders. Serial killing can be classified as either motive based or organizational and social based. The Holmes Typology helps to understand the motivations behind serial killing. Serial killers may be even motivated by fame as part of their motivation for killing. John Wayne Gacy could be seen as evil due to his repeated violent acts. Jeffrey Dahmer was also evil by committing his acts of serial murders. Both Gacy and Dahmer had police records prior to their arrests for serial murders. Serial killers are poor candidates for rehabilitation. Their acts are evil.
It was not for another month did anything turn up with this case. On October 24, 1991, the ballistic lab reports came back from the weapon found in the car of Caratachea. They confirmed that the .22-caliber bullet casings found at the scene of the massacre matched the ones fired from his weapon. The authorities then retrieved a search warrant to search the apartment where Caratachea was living with Jonathan Doody along with Alessandro Garcia. In their apartment, a 20-gauge shotgun was found, and was later matched up to the 20-gauge shotgun shells found at the scene of the massacre.
Why do people kill one another? This is a question most people ask themselves when they hear someone has been killed. Sometimes a person kills another person because a part of his or her brain is wrong; other times it’s something far worse. (1: SV; SV.) Serial killers commit heinous crimes because of a couple things: the person either has a personality disorder, or because of decreased connectivity within that person’s brain. (3: SV: SV.)
Jack the Ripper murdered five women between the time of 31st of August 1888 and the 9th of November 1888. They were murdered within Whitechapel and Spitalfields in the East End areas of London, England. He was never caught, and because he was not there are hundreds on his personality and motives. There has been no other killers in the British history that rivaled the gruesome, disrespectful, utterly superior Jack the Ripper, a multiple murderer whose arrogance and self-assurance defied the entire police department within London and held in a great terror in a great city for as long as he cared to roam its streets and slay at will.