Ian Brady

Ian Brady born Ian Duncan Stewart was together with his girlfriend Myra Hindley found guilty of kidnapping and murdering five children in 19631965 As a child Brady enjoyed torturing and killing animals once even setting a dog on fire and later started attacking children as well Brady became interested in World War II and the Nazis and even tried to learn the German language Among his favorite books were Hitlers autobiography Mein Kampf Dostoyevskys Crime and Punishment Marquis de Sades Justine and less wellknown books about sadism Between the ages of thirteen and sixteen he was charged with housebreaking and burglary three times After the third time he moved in with his mother and stepfather in Manchester where he took up crime again spending time in two juvenile centers In 1961 he met a girl called Myra