Brooke Schoeffel I ought to have been hanged I deserved it My crime was worse than Bradys because I enticed the children and they would never have entered the car without my role I have always regarded myself as worse than ID: 775932
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Myra HindleyThe Moor Murderer
Brooke Schoeffel
“I ought to have been hanged. I deserved it. My crime was worse than Brady's because I enticed the children and they would never have entered the car without my role ... I have always regarded myself as worse than
Brady”-Myra
Hindley
Slide2Background
Her father was an abusive alcoholic and a hard man and taught her how to fightWhen living with parents, lived in a small house and all slept in the same roomGrew up in Manchester, LondonAt the age of five, she was sent to live with her grandmother when her sister was bornWhen she was eight, a boy scratched her and her father made her fight him or he would “leather” herShe went back and beat the boy upAt 15, her close friend asked her to go swimming. She declined, but he drowned She blamed herself for his death because she was a good swimmer and could have saved him if she was there.After her friend died, she left school converted to Roman CatholicismWas considered to be a very smart girl in schoolFirst job was a junior clerkWas really well liked, they even helped her replace her first check after she lost itWas engaged at 17, but broke it off because she thought he couldn’t provide her with the life she wantedAt 18, she met Ian Brady and soon became infatuated and obsessed with him and completely submitted to himWrote about him in her dairy a lot before and after they started dating
Slide3Victim DateCrimePunishmentPauline ReadeJuly 12, 1963Luring Pauline and driving the vanSpeculation- assisting Brady in murderer and sexual assault Not enough evidence for convictionJohn KillbrideNovember 23, 1963Harboring Ian Brady, with knowledge of the murderSeven year sentenceKeith BennettJune 16, 1964Myra- Luring and driving the vanBrady- murder and sexual assaultNot enough evidence for convictionLesley Ann DowneyDecember 26, 1964Luring, murder, sexual assault, rapeLife SentenceEdward Evans October 6, 1965Murder Life Sentence
Slide4Most Recent Crime
-Involved with Ian Brady in the murder and sexual assault of Lesley Ann Downey Charged with 1st Degree Murder -They lured the young girl (age 10) from the fair and then took her to their house to kill and rape her. Buried her in the Saddleworth moor
Slide5Evidence
A 16 minute tape recording that has been confirmed to be the voices of Lesly Ann, Myra, and Ian.Recorded the events of that nightHorrific to hearPhotographs of Lesley Ann were foundShe was bound, gagged, and nakedPhotographs of Myra at the moor, near the graves, lead them to find Lesley’s body
Slide6Sentence
Sentenced to life imprisonmentDenied parole Served at Holloway PrisonIn 2002, she died of bronchial pneumonia at age 60
Slide7Cultural Reference
Books:
Myra
Hindley
- Inside the Mind of A Murderess
Jean Ritchie
Beyond Belief in the Moors Murderers
Emlyn Williams
Movies
Longford
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
Songs:
Suffer Little Children
The Smiths
No One Is Innocent
The Sex Pistols
Slide8Differential Association Theory
It’s important to take the criminal’s background into consideration when analyzing their criminal deviance. The life that he/she lived, and their psychological state, is a very important factor when seeing how they act in the present. Myra
Hindley
, an accomplice in the ‘Moors Murders’, seems to show signs of the differential association theory. The differential association theory shows and proves that crime is learned from the interactions with people around you. Someone is more likely to become a criminal if the people or person they highly value or have a strong influence over them has criminal tendencies. Myra
Hindley
had completely given herself over to Ian Brady and was overly obsessed with him. She claimed that he could make her do anything.
Before meeting Brady, Myra was well liked at work, coworkers even helping her replace her first check when she lost it. Many described her as a good kid in school as well. Myra became obsessed with Brady, even though she knew that he had already had a criminal record. The relationship started out with reading about crimes and Nazi atrocities aloud to one another and watching X-rated films. Myra had even said that Brady could convince her anything and she would believe it. She became completely submitted to him. Because of this commitment and Brady’s dream to complete the perfect murder, Myra would do anything for him, including becoming his partner in crime. It’s not hard to believe that the murder of the five children soon followed.
Slide9Vocab
Sexual Assault-an
incident that involves sexual contact that is forced on somebody
1
st
Degree
Murder-
an unlawful killing that is both willful and premeditated, meaning that it was committed after planning
Life imprisonment-
a punishment in which somebody convicted of a crime must remain in prison for the rest of his or her life, or for a very lengthy
period
Parole-
the release of a prisoner temporarily (for a special purpose) or permanently before the completion of a sentence, on the promise of good
behavior
Bronchial pneumonia-
refers to a severe inflammation or swelling of the walls of the
bronchioles