{"id":120821,"date":"2023-11-06T09:09:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T09:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/?p=120821"},"modified":"2023-11-06T09:09:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T09:09:28","slug":"i-caught-moors-murderers-what-i-heard-on-torture-tape-haunted-me-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/world-news\/i-caught-moors-murderers-what-i-heard-on-torture-tape-haunted-me-for-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"I caught Moors Murderers \u2013 what I heard on torture tape haunted me for decades"},"content":{"rendered":"

The police officer who arrested the notorious Moors Murderers said that a tape recording made by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley still haunted him 40 years later. <\/p>\n

Brady and Hindley took photographs and made audio recordings that provided the crucial evidence that saw them convicted for five vile murders. Some of the most damning evidence was stashed in a suitcase that Brady had kept at Manchester's Central Station. <\/p>\n

One reel-to-reel tape documented the harrowing torture of 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey. Former Detective Chief Superintendent Ian Fairley said he\u2019d never be able to forget what he heard on that tape.<\/p>\n

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Both Hindley and Brady's voices could be heard on the tape, challenging Hindley\u2019s claims that she had only stood guard while Brady killed the children. Both of them were torturing and sexually abusing Lesley as Hindley repeatedly shouted at the sobbing young girl, telling her to shut up.<\/p>\n

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Fairley said: \u201cI'm now 70 years of age, that's 40 years ago and it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck start to stand up when I think what actually is on that tape. They are torturing a little girl and at the same time playing music in the background and Myra Hindley is telling her to shut up and they're obviously taking photographs of her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Absolute Crime podcast relates how, when Huntley was confronted with the tape recording, she wept \u2013 knowing that it placed her at the heart of the sick crimes and no jury would believe her protestations of innocence. <\/p>\n

Fairley spoke about some of the other disturbing evidence he had to sift through. \u201cI found a photograph of a little girl, and she had a scarf tied round about her mouth, and she was naked,\u201d she explained. Lesley had been snatched from a Manchester funfair on Boxing Day, 1964.<\/p>\n

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