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Post by FilmFlaneur on May 16, 2017 14:34:48 GMT
As those who live in the UK will know, the infamous 'Moors Murderer' Ian Brady has lately just died. With his accomplice Myra Hindley, Brady was responsible for the sadistic abduction, torture and murder of several children some decades back, to great public hue and cry, with some victims never found. Brady also fancied himself as an intellectual and true crime lovers may be interested to know that his criminology book (written with Colin Wilson with Peter Sotos providing an afterword) Gates of Janus is worth a read. Don't, for various reasons, expect the same bleak, if memorable personal history as one can find with the memoir of Carl Panzram for instance. As I remember, although concerned with the study of murder, it is more of a general book, with little or no reference to Brady's own situation and history. There are, it must be said, few books which give such a chill when reading them notwithstanding.
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Post by ironjade on May 20, 2017 15:03:31 GMT
As those who live in the UK will know, the infamous 'Moors Murderer' Ian Brady has lately just died. With his accomplice Myra Hindley, Brady was responsible for the sadistic abduction, torture and murder of several children some decades back, to great public hue and cry, with some victims never found. Brady also fancied himself as an intellectual and true crime lovers may be interested to know that his criminology book (written with Colin Wilson with Peter Sotos providing an afterword) Gates of Janus is worth a read. Don't, for various reasons, expect the same bleak, if memorable personal history as one can find with the memoir of Carl Panzram for instance. As I remember, although concerned with the study of murder, it is more of a general book, with little or no reference to Brady's own situation and history. There are, it must be said, few books which give such a chill when reading them notwithstanding. How about "Beyond Belief" by Emlyn Williams. After reading that I was done being interested in Ian Brady. |
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