Their House Was Up The Road From Me

Their house was up the road from me

The Moors Murders

In the 1960s, a 23 year old stock clerk named Ian Brady met 18 year old typist Myra Hindley and they soon became infatuated with each other. Both coming from troubled childhoods they started planning bank robberies together, although coming to nothing it sparked a fearsome fire inside them that no one saw coming. By 1963 Hindley claimed that Brady began to talk about ‘committing the perfect murder’ and regularly spoke to her about Meyer Levin’s Compulsion. A story that polarised the fictionalised account of Leopold and Loeb case, two young men who attempt to commit the perfect murder of a 12 year old boy escaping the death penalty because of their age. In June of 1963 Brady moved in with HIndley at her grandmother's house on Bannock Street and on the 12th of July they murdered their first victim. The couple were then rehoused to 16 Wardle Brook Avenue in 1960s during the post war slum clearances.

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