With its first instalment set to air on Channel 4 on Feb. 21, Moors Murders takes a chilling new look at the crimes of serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, who murdered five children in Manchester between 1963 and 1965, before burying their victims’ bodies on Saddleworth Moor. As well as revealing previously unseen letters exchanged by the two murderers from prison with English singer Janie Jones, the three-part documentary also examines a series of personal accounts from those that knew the couple.
The first instalment also airs an eye-witness account from the late David Smith, originally recorded in 2003. The teenager reported Brady and Hindley to the police after seeing a murder take place, and his witness statement was crucial in helping to expose the killers.
A teenager from east Manchester, David Smith was just seventeen when he married Maureen, the sister of Myra Hindley. He soon struck up a friendship with his sister-in-law and Brady, and at first assumed that the comments the couple made about murder and robbery were intended as jokes. “There was no indication whatsoever,” Smith wrote in his memoir Witness: The Story of David Smith, Chief Prosecution Witness in the Moors Murders Case. “[Brady] was a slightly eccentric friend. That's all.”
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