Research For Our Final Piece

We decided to base our final piece on the famous murderess, Myra Hindley who committed the Moore’s murders. I researched Hindley and the murders to gain an insight of her mind set and to gain as much information as I could to make our opening sequence realistic in presenting the ways of Hindley.

“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 17- Pauling Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans – at least four of whom were sexually assaulted. The murders are so named because of 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 still remains undiscovered. The police were initially aware if only three killings – those 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 assist the police in their search for the graves, both by then having confessed to the additional murders.” (Wikipedia)

Brady and Hindley undressed Downey. Photographered her and recorder the piteous sounds of her crying on a reel-to-reel audio tape machine. Brady and Hindley could be heard relentlessly mocking Lesley Ann as she called out for her mother.

The press described Myra Hindley as “the most evil woman in Britain” and the “female icon of evil” which gives out media product a huge inspiration to focus on.

Throughout researching the murders, I found that Ian Brady (Hindley’s lover) was fascinated

by the work of Hitler, and he indoctrinated Hindley into following the drastic, disturbing Nazi ways. This is the reason why in our media we decided to use April as the focal child in the piece, as she has blonde hair and blue eyes; following Hitlers conception that Arians were the only race worth living. This is why the character of Hindley in our piece is so fascinated with the young girl.

We decided to base our media piece upon Myra Hindley, as if she was alone and Ian Brady did not assist her, purely because we thought that the piece would seem much more disturbing if it was just a normal woman who didn’t have the powerful influence of a “disturbed” lover. The idea is to use our interpretation of Hindley to give an insight into her sick, deluded mind and to show an entrance into a disturbing story which is similar to the way Hindley would have carried out a murder up on an innocent young child.