As the saying goes, ‘love conquers all’ – including, in these cases, complete human depravity. For these couples, there is no limit to their love. Over the following pages, find out about some of the world’s sickest partners in crime, including the Moors Murderers, whose reign of sadistic terror sent five children to an early grave. The very faces of evil, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were locked up and left to rot for the rest of their lives. While Hindley willingly took part in their sick murder sick games, others – like Debra Brown, whose lover Alton Coleman raped and slaughtered his way through six US states – found themselves groomed for grimness. Open the book to find out the appalling stories of lovers who’ve corrupted, ruined and devastated the lives of those around them.
WELCOME TO KILLER COUPLES SPECIAL
THE LONELY HEARTS KILLERS • FOR A COUPLE WHO PROFESSED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER UNCONDITIONALLY, THEIR BEHAVIOUR WAS DECIDEDLY HEARTLESS
DEATH AMONG THE WANT ADS • WITH THEIR SUBTLE AIR OF DESPERATION, MANY SERIAL KILLERS HAVE USED THE WANT ADS AS THEIR OWN PERSONAL HUNTING GROUND
MOVIE MAGIC • THIS GRIM TALE OF SEX, LUST AND VIOLENCE HAS BECOME THE INSPIRATION FOR A NUMBER OF MOVIE ADAPTATIONS
DOUBLE TROUBLE • WHEN COUPLES KILL, THEIR TREATMENT WITHIN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM SHOULD BE THE SAME. THIS IS NOT ALWAYS THE CASE
NATURAL BORN KILLERS • FOR TWO MONTHS IN THE 1950S, CHARLES STARKWEATHER AND HIS 14-YEAR-OLD GIRLFRIEND CARIL ANN FUGATE TERRORISED THE AMERICAN MIDWEST. BUT THEIR TRUE LEGACY EXTENDED FAR BEYOND THE KILLINGS, LINGERING EVEN UNTIL TODAY
“I GOT MAD AT PEOPLE” • STARKWEATHER’S WATERSHED KILLING HELPED THE TROUBLED TEEN FIND A NEW WAY OF EXPRESSING HIS RAGE… IN A ROADTRIP RAMPAGE
THE MEDIA MADE THEM SUPERSTARS • HOW STARKWEATHER AND FUGATE MADE THEIR WAY INTO POPULAR CULTURE
FROM MURDER TO MYTHOLOGY • DR JEAN MURLEY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND THE AUTHOR OF THE RISE OF TRUE CRIME: 20TH-CENTURY MURDER AND AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE, ON THE REAL NATURAL BORN KILLERS
THE MOORS MURDERERS • THERE’S IAN BRADY AND MYRA HINDLEY. THEN THERE’S THE BLEAKNESS BETWEEN LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. SADDLEWORTH MOOR IS THE SILENT WITNESS THAT STILL HOLDS A DARK SECRET: WHERE IS KEITH BENNETT?
MEMENTOS OF MURDER • THE EERIE MIX AND GRIM FOOTAGE THAT CRACKED THE CASE
THE FIELD OF BONES • BENEATH THE DARK PEAT OF SADDLEWORTH MOOR
TOERAG AND TEARAWAY • HOW DAVID SMITH FOUND HIMSELF IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME
CROCODILE TEARS • MYRA HINDLEY’S SO-CALLED REMORSE
THE LAST WORD ON IAN BRADY • THE CHILLING DETAILS OF THE MOORS MURDERER’S CRIMES DOMINATED NEWSPAPERS FOR DECADES, BUT NOW THAT IAN BRADY IS DEAD, WHAT IS THERE LEFT TO LEARN ABOUT HIM? WE’VE SPOKEN TO DR ALAN KEIGHTLEY, BRADY’S ONLY CONFIDANT, WHO IS FINALLY ABLE TO REVEAL THE SECRET DETAILS OF HIS MANY INTERVIEWS WITH THE CHILD KILLER
HER PLEA TO LIVE • BRADY AND HINDLEY MADE A SICKENING TAPE AND PHOTOGRAPHED LITTLE LESLEY ANN DOWNEY, BEFORE AND AFTER THEY KILLED HER
WHERE IS KEITH BENNETT? • THE WHEREABOUTS OF HIS MISSING VICTIM’S BODY WAS THE REMAINING SECRET THAT IAN BRADY TOOK TO THE GRAVE. OR WAS IT?
BRADY, IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT • SOME OF THE KILLER’S TREASURED POSSESSIONS WERE BEQUEATHED TO DR KEIGHTLEY. THEY GIVE AN INTRIGUING, MORE PERSONAL INSIGHT INTO THE MONSTER OF THE MOORS
NAZIS, SADISM AND A CHRISTMAS CAROL • FOR DECADES THE MEDIA SPECULATED ON THE TEXTS THAT OCCUPIED BRADY’S BOOKSHELF AND MIND, BUT A CLOSE LOOK AT HIS LIBRARY OPENED UP A NEW CHAPTER ON THE KILLER
“ I ESCAPED THE MOORS MURDERERS” • AS THEIR BLACK-AND-WHITE MUGSHOTS BURNED THEMSELVES INTO THE PUBLIC’S MINDS AND THEIR PERVERSE CRIMES MADE HISTORY, ONE BOY REALISED HE HAD MET THE ‘MOORS...