Editing Moors murders (section)

===As a couple===
In January 1961, the 18-year-old Hindley joined Millwards as a typist.{{sfnp|Lee|2010|p=69|ps=none}} She soon became infatuated with Brady.<ref name="The Scotsman—Death at 60 for the woman who came to personify evil">{{cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/uk-news/death-at-60-for-the-woman-who-came-to-personify-evil-2509989|title=Death at 60 for the woman who came to personify evil|last=McVeigh|first=Karen|date=16 November 2002|newspaper=[[The Scotsman]]|access-date=17 February 2009|mode=cs2}}</ref> Hindley began a diary and, although she had dates with other men, some of the entries detail her fascination with Brady, to whom she eventually spoke for the first time on 27 July.{{sfnp|Ritchie|1988|p=27|ps=none}} Over the next few months she continued to make entries but grew increasingly disillusioned with Brady, until 22 December when he asked her on a date to the cinema.{{sfnp|Ritchie|1988|p=29|ps=none}} (Many sources state that the film was ''[[Judgment at Nuremberg]]'', but Hindley recalled it as ''[[King of Kings (1961 film)|King of Kings]]''.){{sfnp|Lee|2010|p=76|ps=none}} 

Brady and Hindley's dates followed a regular pattern: a trip to the cinema{{ndash}}usually to watch an [[X-rated#United Kingdom|X-rated]] film{{ndash}}then back to Hindley's house to drink German wine.{{sfnp|Ritchie|1988|p=31|ps=none}} Brady then gave Hindley reading material, and the pair spent their work lunch breaks reading aloud to one another from accounts of Nazi atrocities. She began to emulate an ideal of [[Aryan race|Aryan]] perfection, bleaching her hair blonde and applying thick crimson lipstick.<ref name="HindleyODNB">{{cite ODNB|last=Davenport-Hines|first=Richard|title=Hindley, Myra (1942–2002)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/77394|access-date=5 July 2009|mode=cs2}}</ref> Hindley occasionally expressed concern at some aspects of Brady's character; in a letter to a childhood friend, she mentioned an incident where she had been drugged by Brady but also wrote of her obsession with him. A few months later, she asked her friend to destroy the letter.{{sfnp|Ritchie|1988|p=32|ps=none}} In her 30,000-word plea for [[parole]] submitted to [[Home Secretary]] [[Merlyn Rees]], Hindley said:{{blockquote|Within months he [Brady] had convinced me that there was no God at all: he could have told me that the earth was flat, the moon was made of green cheese, and the sun rose in the west, I would have believed him, such was his power of persuasion.{{sfnp|Carmichael|2003|p=6|ps=none}}|author=|title=|source=}}

Hindley began to change her appearance further, wearing clothing considered risqué such as high boots, short skirts and leather jackets. The couple became less sociable to their colleagues.{{sfnp|Ritchie|1988|pp=32–33|ps=none}} They were regulars at the library, borrowing books on [[philosophy]] as well as crime and torture.{{sfnp|Lee|2010|p=93}} They also read works by the [[Marquis de Sade]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]{{sfnp|Lee|2010|p=93}} and [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]'s ''[[Crime and Punishment]]''.<ref name="HindleyODNB" />{{sfnp|Ritchie|1988|p=35|ps=none}}{{efn|Brady told the police thirty years later that everything he had ever done was in ''Crime and Punishment.''{{sfnp|Lee|2010|p=89}} Brady also claimed that Dostoevsky and Nietzsche were his biggest influences.{{sfnp|Keightley|2017|p=36}}}} Although Hindley was not a qualified driver (she passed her test on 7 November 1963 after failing three times),{{sfnp|Lee|2010|p=126}} she often hired a van, in which the couple planned [[bank robbery|bank robberies]]. 

Hindley befriended George Clitheroe, the president of the Cheadle Rifle Club, and on several occasions visited two local [[shooting range]]s. Clitheroe, although puzzled by her interest, arranged for her to buy a [[.22 caliber|.22]] [[rifle]] from a gun merchant in Manchester. She also asked to join a pistol club, but she was a poor shot and allegedly bad-tempered, so Clitheroe told her that she was unsuitable. She did, however, manage to purchase a [[Webley & Scott|Webley]] [[.45 caliber|.45]] and a [[Smith & Wesson]] [[.38 caliber|.38]] from other members of the club.{{sfnp|Ritchie|1988|pp=37–40|ps=none}} Brady and Hindley's plans for robbery came to nothing, but they became interested in photography. Brady already owned a [[Brownie (camera)|Box Brownie]], which he used to take photographs of Hindley and her dog, Puppet, but he upgraded to a more sophisticated model, and also purchased lights and [[darkroom]] equipment. The pair took photographs of each other that, for the period, would have been considered explicit. For Hindley, this demonstrated a marked change from her earlier, more shy and prudish nature.{{sfnp|Ritchie|1988|pp=40–41|ps=none}}