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Background Ian Brady. Ian Brady was born in the Gorbals area of Glasgow as Ian Duncan Stewart on 2 January 1938 to Margaret "Peggy" Stewart, an unmarried tea room waitress. The identity of Brady's father has never been reliably ascertained, although his mother said he was a reporter working for a Glasgow newspaper who died three months before Brady was born.
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- Myra Hindley: 15 November 2002 (aged 60), Ian Brady: 15 May 2017 (aged 79)
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Oct 3, 2023 · Ian Brady was a notorious serial killer who murdered multiple children with his girlfriend, Myra Hindley, in the 1960s. He was arrested and convicted in 1965, but his political views and violent lifestyle influenced his crimes. Learn about his early life, crimes, victims, and legacy.
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May 16, 2017 · Ian Brady was born on Jan. 2, 1938, in a hardscrabble slum area of Glasgow, Scotland, called the Gorbals. His unmarried mother, Margaret Stewart, was a waitress, and his father, whom she never ...
- Pauline Reade, 16. Pauline Reade was the couple's first victim - a pretty 16-year-old who vanished on July 12, 1963 while on her way to a disco near her home in Gorton, Manchester.
- John Kilbride, 12. Four months after Pauline disappeared, 12-year-old John Kilbride went missing. On the morning of November 23, 1963, he had been earning pocket money by packing up stalls at Ashton market.
- Keith Bennett, 12. Keith Bennett, a bespectacled 12-year-old with a cheeky smile, disappeared on June 16, 1964. He was on his way to his grandmother's house, who lived close to his home in Chorlton-on-Medlock.
- Lesley Ann Downey, 10. Lesley Ann Downey was Brady and Hindley's youngest victim when she was murdered on 26 December, 1964.
May 17, 2017 · May 17, 2017. In the 1960s, Ian Brady, a slender 27-year-old stock clerk with sharp features and a pompadour, and his girlfriend, Myra Hindley, a 23-year-old typist with dyed blond hair, were ...
May 16, 2017 · To many people, Ian Brady was the epitome of evil, a sadist who killed without conscience. If anything, his accomplice Myra Hindley was judged even more harshly, simply because she was a woman.
May 16, 2017 · The notorious serial killer who tortured and killed five children with Myra Hindley in the 1960s has died at a secure psychiatric unit in Merseyside. He was jailed in 1966 and buried four of his victims in graves on Saddleworth Moor, where he refused to reveal their whereabouts. He was 79 and had been on hunger strike for years.
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