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EPISODE 26: Monsters of the Moors PART 3


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The conclusion of our Monsters of the Moors trilogy delivers the final chapter in one of Britain's most notorious murder cases. After terrorizing Manchester for years, Myra Hindley and Ian Brady's murderous partnership finally came crashing down when they inexplicably involved Myra's brother-in-law in their fifth killing—a fatal mistake that led to their capture and conviction.

What follows is a decades-long saga of manipulation, appeals, and denied justice that's almost as disturbing as the original crimes. Behind prison walls, Hindley crafted a carefully calculated persona, convincing influential supporters of her rehabilitation while Brady openly embraced his monstrosity. Meanwhile, victims' families like Ann West, mother of 10-year-old Leslie Ann Downey, spent their lives fighting to keep these killers behind bars, repeatedly forced to relive their trauma at endless appeal hearings.

The most heartbreaking aspect may be Keith Bennett, whose body remains unfound despite both killers eventually admitting his murder. His mother's desperate letters to Hindley begging for closure went effectively unanswered—a final cruelty inflicted on a family already devastated by loss.

We explore how justice eventually arrived not through execution but through life imprisonment that ended only with the natural deaths of both killers—Hindley in 2002 and Brady fifteen years later in 2017. Their passing marked the end of a dark chapter in British criminal history, though the wounds they created continue to affect multiple generations of families touched by their evil.

Join us for this powerful conclusion as we raise a glass to the resilience of those who fought for justice and remember the innocent lives forever changed by two monsters who found each other and unleashed unspeakable horror across the moors of northern England.

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Drink about somethingBy Jendsey