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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 280. Not illustrated. Chapters: English Serial Killers, Scottish Serial Killers, Welsh Serial Killers, Moors Murders, Harold Shipman, Jack the Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, John Christie, John Straffen, Amelia Dyer, Dennis Nilsen, Fred West, Burke and Hare Murders, Peter Tobin, Sawney Bean, George Joseph Smith, Thomas Neill Cream, Mary Ann Cotton, John George Haigh, Robert Black, Rosemary West, William Palmer, Archibald Hall, Colin Ireland, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, Donald Neilson, Peter Manuel, John Duffy and David Mulcahy, Beverley Allitt, George Chapman, Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke, Steve Wright, Trevor Hardy, Graham Young, Bible John, Colin Norris, Anthony Hardy, Mary Ann Britland, Robert Maudsley, Kenneth Erskine, Christie-Cleek, Patrick Mackay, Michael Lupo, Steven Grieveson, Lewis Hutchinson, Peter Moore, Merry Widow of Windy Nook. Excerpt: The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around what is now Greater Manchester, England. The victims were five children aged between 10 and 17Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evansat least four of whom were sexually assaulted. The murders are so named because two of the victims were discovered in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered on the moor in 1987, over 20 years after Brady and Hindley's trial in 1966. The body of a fourth victim, Keith Bennett, is also suspected to be buried there, but as of 2010 it remains undiscovered. The police were initially aware of only three killingsthose of Edward Evans, Lesley Ann Downey, and John Kilbride. The investigation was reopened in 1985, after Brady was reported in the press as having confessed to the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett. Brady and Hindley were taken separately to Saddleworth Moor to a...
