BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)

39th year  -  N° 298                 Thursday, 24 October 2024         Antwerpen		
Knocking on Heaven's Door
Serial killer
Myra Hindley
aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady)


  • 23 July 1942 (+) is born in Manchester, United Kingdom.

  • 16 August 1942 (x) is baptised in Manchester, United Kingdom.

  • 6 November 1958 (x) takes her first communion and receives a white prayer book from uncle Bert and auntie Kath Maybury in Leeds, United Kingdom.

  • 6 May 1964 (x) trades her Austin car for a white Morris Mini-Traveler in Manchester, United Kingdom.

  • 11 October 1965 (x) is charged with being an accessory to the murder of Edward Evans in Hyde, United Kingdom.

  • 7 May 1966 (x) enters the first day of her two life sentences as prisoner 964055 in London, United Kingdom.

  • 10 September 1972 (x) is taken out for a one and a half hour walk on Hampstead Heath by Governer of the prison Dorothy Wing in London, United Kingdom.

  • 1 April 1974 (x) appears in the dock of the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, charged with 'conspiracy to effect the escape of a prisoner from lawful custody' along Patricia Cairns and Maxine Croft in London, United Kingdom.

  • 25 January 1977 (x) is transferred to Durham Jail in London, United Kingdom.

  • 29 January 1977 (x) is moved to Durham Jail in London, United Kingdom.

  • 30 March 1983 (x) is transferred to Cookham Wood in Borstal, Kent in Durham, United Kingdom.

  • 16 December 1986 (x) returns to the Moor by helicopter from Cookham Wood Prison in an attempt to locate burial sites of their victims Pauline Reade and Keith Benneth in Saddleworth Moor, United Kingdom.

  • 10 February 1987 (x) confesses to her involvement in all five Moors murders in Borstal, United Kingdom.

  • 23 March 1987 (x) returns to the Moor to locate the graves of some missing victims in Saddleworth Moor, United Kingdom.

  • 17 April 1995 (x) falls in the exercise yard and fractures her left femur in several places in Durham, United Kingdom.

  • 4 February 1997 (x) is given notice that she will never leave prison during her life in London, United Kingdom.

  • 20 November 1997 (x) Interior minister Jack Straw decides to uphold the ruling made by his predecessor Michael Howard that Hindley would serve her life sentence or tariff in full and die in jail, in London, United Kingdom.

  • 18 December 1997 (x) is rushed to a hospital only hours after her appeal against having to spend the rest of her life in jail was turned down in Durham, United Kingdom.

  • 5 November 1998 (x) loses an appeal against the government's decision that she must spend the rest of her life in jail in London, United Kingdom.

  • 14 January 2000 (x) is having brain surgery due to suffering from a cerebral aneurism in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

  • 15 November 2002 (-) dies of bronchial pneumonia in Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom.

  • 20 November 2002 (x) The body of Hindley is cremated in Cambridge, United Kingdom.


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