Editing Moors murders (section)

=== Initial analysis ===
Though Hindley was not initially arrested, she demanded to go with Brady to the police station, taking her dog.{{sfnp|Staff|2007|pp=193–194|ps=none}} She refused to make any statement about Evans' death beyond claiming it had been an accident, and was allowed to go home on the condition that she return the next day.{{sfnp|Topping|1989|pp=122–124|ps=none}} Over the next four days Hindley visited her employer and asked to be dismissed so that she would be eligible for [[unemployment benefits]]. On one of these occasions, she found an envelope belonging to Brady which she burned in an ashtray; she claimed she did not open it but believed it contained plans for bank robberies.

In the meantime, the police were uncovering more evidence and became convinced that Hindley was actively involved in the murder of Evans and other possible victims. On 11 October, she too was arrested and taken into custody. She was charged as an [[Accessory (legal term)|accessory]] to the murder of Evans and [[Remand (detention)|remanded]] at [[HM Prison Risley|Risley Prison]].{{sfnp|Topping|1989|pp=122–124|ps=none}}

Police searching the house at Wardle Brook Avenue found an old exercise book with the name "John Kilbride", which made them suspect that Brady and Hindley had been involved in the unsolved disappearances of other children and teenagers.{{sfnp|Topping|1989|p=33|ps=none}} Brady told police that he and Evans had fought, but insisted that he and Smith had murdered Evans and that Hindley had "only done what she had been told."{{sfnp|Topping|1989|p=122|ps=none}} 

Smith said that Brady had asked him to return anything incriminating, such as "dodgy books", which Brady then packed into suitcases; he had no idea what else the suitcases contained or where they might be, though he mentioned that Brady "had a thing about railway stations." A search of left-luggage offices turned up the suitcases at Manchester Central railway station on 15 October;{{sfnp|Lee|2010|pp=234–235|ps=none}} the claim ticket was later found in Hindley's prayer book.{{sfnp|Topping|1989|p=107|ps=none}} Inside one of the cases were—among an assortment of costumes, notes, photographs and negatives—nine pornographic photographs of a young girl, soon identified as Downey, naked and with a scarf tied across her mouth, and a sixteen-minute audiotape recording of a girl identifying herself as "Lesley Ann Weston"{{efn|Downey's stepfather was named Alan West.<ref>{{cite news|title=Stepfather of Moors Murder Victim Lesley Ann Downey Dies|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/stepfather-moors-murder-victim-lesley-11507044|work=Manchester Evening News|date=21 June 2016|access-date=5 February 2021}}</ref>}} screaming, crying and pleading to be allowed to return home to her mother.{{sfnp|Goodman|1973|p=28|ps=none}}{{sfnp|Topping|1989|p=35|ps=none}} Downey's mother was asked by police to look at the two photographs which were deemed appropriate in order to identify her daughter, and also identified the voice from the recording, too, was of her daughter.{{sfnp|Topping|1989|pp=35–36|ps=none}}

Officers making inquiries at neighbouring houses spoke to Hodges, who had on several occasions been taken to Saddleworth Moor by Brady and Hindley, and was able to point out their favourite sites along the [[A635 road]].{{sfnp|Goodman|1973|p=27|ps=none}} Police immediately began to search the area, and on 16 October found an arm bone protruding from the peat, which was presumed at first to be that of Kilbride, but which the next day was identified as that of Downey, whose body was still visually identifiable; her mother was able to identify the clothing, which had also been buried in the grave.<ref name="Times ears covered">{{cite news |title= Two women at 'bodies on moors' trial cover their ears |newspaper=The Times |publisher=Times Digital Archive |date=27 April 1966 |page=9 |issue=56616 |url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/552/371/35114420w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS151743131&dyn=3!xrn_2_0_CS151743131&hst_1?sw_aep=mclib |access-date=11 August 2009 |url-access=subscription |mode=cs2}}</ref>

[[File:Myra at John Kilbride's grave.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.3|alt=A crouched blonde woman in thick jacket, trousers, and boots, holding a small dog.|In this photograph taken by Brady in November 1963, Hindley crouches over John Kilbride's grave on Saddleworth Moor with her dog, Puppet.]]
Also among the photographs in the suitcase were a number of scenes of the Moors. Smith had told police that Brady had boasted of "photographic proof" of multiple murders, and officers, struck by Brady's decision to remove the apparently innocent landscapes from the house, appealed to locals for assistance finding locations to match the photographs. On 21 October they found the "badly [[human decomposition|decomposed]]" body of Kilbride, which his mother had to identify by clothing.{{sfnp|Goodman|1973|pp=28–29|ps=none}} That same day, already being held for the murder of Evans, Brady and Hindley appeared at Hyde [[Magistrates' Court]] charged with Downey's murder. Each was brought before the court separately and remanded into custody for a week.<ref>{{cite news |title=Couple on Moors Murder Charge |newspaper=The Times |date=22 October 1965 |page=8 |issue=56459 |url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/552/371/35114420w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS134834518&dyn=3!xrn_1_0_CS134834518&hst_1?sw_aep=mclib |publisher=Times Digital Archive |access-date=11 August 2009 |url-access=subscription |mode=cs2}}</ref> They made a two-minute appearance on 28 October, and were again remanded into custody.<ref>{{cite news |title=Couple in Court Two Minutes |newspaper=The Times |publisher=Times Digital Archive |date=29 October 1965 |page=15 |issue=56465 |url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/552/371/35114420w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS252799325&dyn=3!xrn_2_0_CS252799325&hst_1?sw_aep=mclib |access-date=11 August 2009 |url-access=subscription |mode=cs2}}</ref>

The investigating officers suspected Brady and Hindley of murdering other missing children and teenagers who had disappeared from areas in and around Manchester over the previous few years, and the search continued for a while after the discovery of Kilbride's body, but with winter setting in it was called off in November. Various newspapers were also keen to name possible further victims of the "Moors Murders", with Reade and Bennett being two of them.{{sfnp|Goodman|1973|pp=30–32|ps=none}}

Presented with the evidence of the tape recording, Brady admitted to taking the photographs of Downey, but insisted that she had been brought to Wardle Brook Avenue by two men who had subsequently taken her away again, alive. By 2 December, Brady had been charged with the murders of Kilbride, Downey and Evans. Hindley had been charged with the murders of Downey and Evans, and being an accessory to the murder of Kilbride.<ref>{{cite news |title=Clerk Accused Of Three Murders |newspaper=The Times |publisher=Times Digital Archive |date=3 December 1965 |page=17 |issue=56495 |url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/535/223/73522511w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS285829507&dyn=6!xrn_6_0_CS285829507&hst_1?sw_aep=mclib |access-date=25 September 2009 |url-access=subscription |mode=cs2}}</ref> At the committal hearing on 6 December, Brady was charged with the murders of Evans, Kilbride, and Downey, and Hindley with the murders of Evans and Downey, as well as with harbouring Brady in the knowledge that he had killed Kilbride. The [[prosecution]]'s opening statement was held ''[[In camera|in chambers]]'' rather than in open court,<ref>{{cite news|title=Hearing Of Moors Murder Case In Camera |newspaper=The Times |publisher=Times Digital Archive |date=7 December 1965 |page=6 |issue=56498 |url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/535/223/73522511w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS100886919&dyn=6!xrn_7_0_CS100886919&hst_1?sw_aep=mclib |access-date=25 September 2009 |mode=cs2 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> and the [[defense (law)|defence]] asked for a similar stipulation but was refused.<ref>{{cite news |title=Prosecution tells how a youth of 17 died |newspaper=The Times |publisher=Times Digital Archive |date=8 December 1965 |page=15 |issue=56499 |url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/758/656/39554341w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS251881864&dyn=3!xrn_7_0_CS251881864&hst_1?sw_aep=mclib |access-date=28 September 2009 |url-access=subscription |mode=cs2}}</ref> The proceedings continued before three [[Magistrate (England and Wales)|magistrates]] in Hyde over an eleven-day period during December, at the end of which the pair were committed for trial at [[Chester Crown Court|Chester Assizes]].<ref name="HindleyODNB" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/history/how-chester-chronicle-covered-infamous-11209509|title=How The Chester Chronicle covered the infamous Moors Murders trial|work=Chester Chronicle|date=20 April 2016|access-date=19 September 2019|mode=cs2}}</ref>

Many of the photographs taken by Brady and Hindley on the moor featured Hindley's dog Puppet, sometimes as a puppy. To help date the photos, detectives had a veterinary surgeon examine the dog to determine his age; the examination required a [[general anaesthetic]] from which Puppet did not recover. Hindley was furious, and accused the police of murdering the dog&nbsp;– one of the few occasions detectives witnessed any emotional response from her.{{sfnp|Topping|1989|p=37|ps=none}} Hindley wrote to her mother:
{{blockquote|I feel as though my heart's been torn to pieces. I don't think anything could hurt me more than this has. The only consolation is that some moron might have got hold of Puppet and hurt him.{{sfnp|Staff|2007|p=213|ps=none}}}}