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Beyond Belief A Chronicle of Murder and Its Detection
Beyond Belief A Chronicle of Murder and Its Detection Author:Evelyn Williams The Moors Murders wer the most brutal, senseless and cold-blooded killings to have occured in Great Britain in many years. Between November 1963 and October 1965, Ian Brady, clerk , and Myra Hindley, typist, killed at least three---and perhaps as many as five---young people varying in age from ten to seventeen, for no apparent motive. In 1966,... more » the two murderers were sentenced to life imprisionment (capital punishment was abandoned in England.) This book, an uncanny re-creating of the minds, hearts and motivations of the two killers, is the story of this case. In it Emlyn Williams has achieved superbly his objective: "The dual accuracy of history and of imaginative understanding."« less