Were Moor's murders really down to just 2 people?

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Ever since being a kid, the case of Ian Brady/Myra Hindley not just disturbed me, but pretty much confused me too.

What was the point? All that just to act out scenes in books? All that simply because they were, how we say, evil? Because they felt like it?

It also struck me as odd that as soon as Hindley was sent down, Frank Packenham, [Earl of Longford (Peerage of Ireland); Baron Longford of Cowley (Peerage of United Kingdom); Knight of the Garter; Lord Longford], had became involved with Hindley while she was in gaol. What was his angle? Did she pick her because she was famous? because he fancied her? What was his point? Lord Longford (whose rather tasteful Coat of Arms is pictured underneath) was a moral crusader, campaining for the imprisoning of homosexuals and pornographers (or that is what he claimed), so why was he so obsessed with supporting a child murderer?


http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Images/Exhbn/29149%20model%2018.jpg



What I am getting at, obviously, is that it is very likely that the murders were not just down to two "ordinary people", but that these were sacraficial rituals involving very powerful people, more than likely Lord Longford himself.

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Interesting point.

I always thought that Lord Longford got involved because he thought Myra was innocent. She did claim for many years that she had nothing to do with the murders. it was only in the 80's when she finally confessed and tried to help locate more bodies that Longford rejected his support.

I do think it was just Hindley and Brady who carried out these murders.

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/05/23/deranged-ian-brady-s-ranting-letters-prasing-terrorists-and-calling-for-muslim-to-bomb-britain-115875-23149836/

Ian Brady calls for terrorist attacks in Britain

IN the notes, containing spelling mistakes, Brady wrote: “Today’s Muslim terrorists are the most ­incompetent and lazy ever known, hardly able to kill a couple of UK troops a week.

“No commitment nowadays. Hopefully the IRA will ­reactivate and show the way again in the UK. Why do I ‘dislike’, more despise, the sanctimonious, morally ­pretentious, US-lickspittle UK military? War criminal Tony Blair is earning £10.4million a year from talking about his war crimes in Iraq, etc, where an ­estimated 120,000 men, women and children died in the initial illegal invasion/bombing alone.

“Meanwhile, there are people rotting in penal cesspits such as this for thirty or fourty years for stealing a milkfloat, or killing only one or two, without asking permission from the government!

“There’s nothing complex about ­selective homicide, people who refuse to kill for the Government can share the same cell with those who killed without its permission.”