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...allegedly hacked a victim to death, Attorney General Sir Elwyn Jones opened the prosecution's case by recounting how the police had unraveled what the press has called "the Moor Murders." The break came, he said, when the two defendants staged a murder to impress David Smith, 19, Myra's brother-in-law, who had doubted Brady's boasts about his thrill killings. After witnessing the murder, Smith rushed home to his wife, then called the police. They searched the house that Ian and Myra shared in a Manchester suburb, found "a bundle wrapped in a blanket...
...officer, who normally prosecutes only major espionage cases, was on hand to try a criminal case. For another, a newly erected shield of bullet-resistant glass surrounded the prisoners' dock. Behind the glass sat the defendants: Ian Brady, 28, a skinny stock clerk, and his blonde mistress, Myra Hindley, 23, a shorthand typist. Both pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering a 17-year-old youth and two children whose bodies were exhumed late last year from shallow graves on the desolate Saddleworth moor near Manchester...
Next Sir Elwyn turned to the third alleged murder-that of twelve-year-old John Kilbride, who disappeared in November 1963. Among the pictures in the suitcases, he said, was one of Myra "crouching and apparently looking down" at a spot on the moors. Locating the same spot, police exhumed the boy's body. The arrangement of his clothes, said Sir Elwyn, indicated that he, too, had been sexually molested before he was killed. Less than 400 yards from the boy's grave, police found the grave of Lesley Anne...
Readings from De Sade. Sir Elwyn proceeded to call the first witness. She was Mrs. Maureen Smith, 19, Myra's sister. She testified that one night last December Myra had asked her husband David to walk her home. David Smith came to the stand and told what had happened when he got there. "I heard a scream and ran into the living room." There he saw Ian standing over a young man, striking him on the head with an ax. Said Smith: "I have seen butchers show as much emotion as he did when they were cutting...
...Miss Myra Roper, Australian writer and lecturer who visited China in 1958 1963 and 1965, will narrate two films on Chinese life (including one photographed in old Peking last year) at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Cabot Hall...