How to Make a Serial Killer by Christopher Berry-Dee

Author:Christopher Berry-Dee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Published: 2010-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

When John Kilbride’s body was exhumed from his shallow grave on Saddleworth Moor, police noted that his pants had been dragged down to his knees. This strongly indicated that Brady had sexually assaulted the boy before he was strangled to death and buried.

By the time of this murder, Brady and Hindley had perfected their victim-selecting technique. According to Geoff Knupfer, “The role that Myra Hindley played was always one of initial contact with the child. Sometimes Brady was absent and came along later. On other occasions, Brady came along behind on a motorcycle, flashing his headlamp, signaling: ‘There is another one here, stop and talk to this individual.’” This method worked. On the night of Monday, June 16, 1964, twelve-year-old Keith Bennett fell into the couple’s clutches. Keith had been walking over to his grandmother’s house and his route led him along Westmoreland Street where Brady and Hindley were living at the time.

It appears that they snatched the boy from the pavement as he passed by the house. Keith Bennett’s body has never been found. Both Hindley and Brady have admitted burying the boy on Saddleworth Moor, but despite concerted efforts including the assistance of Brady and Hindley themselves, the police were never able to locate his grave. Winnie Johnson, Keith Bennett’s mother, is painfully aware of what Brady and Hindley put her son through. She states, “[Brady] hit Keith on the back of the head, knocked him out, put a machine cord rubber around his throat, and broke his neck. He actually assaulted him afterwards and left his clothes beside where they buried him... he didn’t know he was going to his death.” Given her own terrible personal involvement in the case, Winnie Johnson’s verdict on a fitting punishment for Brady and Hindley was understandable: “I would put them in a big enough hole to bury both of them, throw the soil on top of them and bury them alive. ‘Cause, that’s all they need. ‘Cause, those kind of people are not worth the salt of the earth.”

The penultimate murder of Brady and Hindley’s career is possibly the most shocking. Ten-year-old Lesley Ann Downey was abducted from a fairground on the day after Christmas, 1964. She was taken to 16 Wardle Brook Avenue, where Brady and Hindley were lodging with Myra’s grandmother. Taken to an upstairs room in the house, Lesley Ann was forced to strip naked, keeping just her shoes and socks on, and pose for Brady to take some photographs. She appears in these heartbreaking photographs, gagged with a scarf and looking confused and frightened.

In a terrible twist, Brady also made tape recordings of the terrified girl’s pleas to be released. To an insane background of Christmas carols, Lesley can be heard begging to leave because her mother will be worried about her. She is also heard asking Brady to take his hands off her. At several points she cries out, “Don’t undress me, will you?”

Geoff Knupfer, the former Chief Superintendent of Greater Manchester Police, elaborates, “[Hindley’s]

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