What is Moors murders?
{{Infobox serial killer | name = Ian Brady and Myra Hindley | birth_name = Ian Duncan Stewart<br />Myra Hindley | alias = The Moors murderers | birth_date = '''Brady:''' {{Birth date|df=y|1938|1|2}} '''Hindley:''' {{Birth date|df=y|1942|7|23}} | death_date = '''Hindley:'''<br />{{Death date and age|df=yes|2002|11|15|1942|7|23}}<br />'''Brady:'''<br />{{Death date and age|df=yes|2017|05|15|1938|1|2}} | cause = '''Hindley:'''<br />[[Bronchopneumonia]] caused by [[heart disease]] <br /> '''Brady:'''<br/>Complications from [[Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease]] | victims = 5 | country = England | beginyear = 12 July 1963&nbsp; | endyear = &nbsp;6 October 1965 | apprehended = '''Brady:'''<br />7 October 1965<br />'''Hindley:'''<br />11 October 1965 | conviction = Murder | sentence = [[Life imprisonment]] }} The '''Moors murders''' were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around what is now [[Greater Manchester]], England. ==Victims== The victims were five children aged between 10 and 17. They were Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans. At least four of them were [[Sexual assault|sexually assaulted]]. The murders have this name because two of the victims were discovered in graves dug on [[Saddleworth Moor]]; a third grave was discovered on the moor in 1987, more than 20&nbsp;years after Brady and Hindley's trial in 1966. The body of a fourth victim, Keith Bennett, is probably buried there as well, but despite repeated searches it hasn't been found. ==Police investigation== The police were initially aware of only three killings, those of Edward Evans, Lesley Ann Downey and John Kilbride. The investigation was reopened in 1985, after Brady was reported in the press as having confessed to the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett. Brady and Hindley were taken separately to Saddleworth Moor to assist the police in their search for the graves, both by then having confessed to the ad