Case overview
She died in 2002 in West Suffolk Hospital, aged 60, after serving thirty-six years in prison. Brady and Hindley were charged only for the murders of Kilbride, Downey and Evans, and received life sentences under a whole life order. [1]
The bodies of two of the victims were discovered in 1965, in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered there in 1987, more than twenty years after Brady and Hindley's trial. Jennifer Tighe, a fourteen-year-old girl who disappeared from an Oldham children's home in December 1964, was mentioned in the press more than forty years later as a possible victim, but in April 2010 it was confirmed by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) that she was still alive. In 1985, Brady allegedly told Fred Harrison, a journalist working for The Sunday People, that he had killed Reade and Bennett, something police already suspected as both lived near Brady and Hindley and had disappeared during the first half of the 1960s. [2]
