On
July 12, 1963, the couple claimed their first victim. 16-year-old
Pauline Reade was enticed into
Hindley's minivan while Brady followed behind on his motorcycle.
They drove up to Saddleworth
Moor where Hindley asked Pauline to help her look for a lost glove.
They were busy "searching
the moors" when Brady pounced upon Pauline and raped her. He then
smashed her skull in with
a shovel and slashed her throat so violently that she was almost
decapitated. Brady then buried
Pauline's body on the moor, where it remained for over 20 years.
On
November 23, Hindley lured 12-year-old John Kilbride into her
car from a market place in
Ashton-under-Lyne, and drove him to Saddleworth Moor. Brady was
waiting there and ordered
Hindley to wait for him in a nearby village in their hired Ford
Anglia. While Hindley waited in
her car, Brady attempted to stab the boy with a knife, but the
weapon was too blunt. Brady lost
his temper and strangled him to death with a string before burying
his body in a shallow grave.
On
June 16, 1964 their third victim was another 12-year-old boy,
Keith Bennett, whom they
enticed from a street in Chorlton and drove to Saddleworth Moor.
Hindley stood and watched
from the top of an embankment while Brady sexually assaulted Keith
in a ravine before
strangling him to death with a piece of string and burying his body.
It has never been found.
The
fourth victim, 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey, was lured from
a fairground in Ancoats.
Brady took nine obscene photographs of her, showing her naked, bound
and gagged (which
were later found in a suitcase in a left luggage locker). Hindley
recorded the scene of the
child's rape and torture by Brady on audio tape. The tape clearly
records the voices of Brady,
Hindley and the child, who is heard to scream and protest and asks
to be allowed to go
home and plead for her life. It is believed she was killed by Brady.
The following morning,
Brady and Hindley drove Lesley's body to Saddleworth Moor where it
was buried
in a shallow grave.
On
October 6, 1965, the couple claimed their fifth and final victim,
17-year-old Edward Evans.
They enticed him from Manchester Central Railway Station to their
house in Hattersley, where
Hindley's 18-year-old brother-in-law David Smith was visiting. Brady
then crept up on Edward
in the kitchen and smashed his head in with an axe. He ordered Smith
to help him carry the
corpse to an upstairs bedroom and tie it up ready for disposal, but
Smith then ran home and
contacted the police. Smith explained later that, while apparently
giving assistance to
cleaning up, his sole concern was to escape the house alive.
