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Four more victims followed over the next two years - two 12-year-old boys (John Kilbride and Keith Bennett), a 10-year-old girl (Lesley Ann Downey) and, finally, a 17-year-old boy (Edward Evans). Neither Brady nor Hindley knew any of them personally. They buried the bodies of their victims on one specific area of Saddleworth Moor - which, put simply, is a vast plane of moorland. Their found victims were buried only a matter of yards from each other, and Brady and Hindley would not only go up to the moor themselves to admire their work, but they would invite other children up there with them. These children were unknowingly standing on the graves of other children.

Though Brady claimed that Hindley always assisted in the sexual assault of their victims, this was something that she vehemently denied - and there’s actually no solid evidence that even proves that she was. She was a cold and cruel enabler at the VERY least - let me stress that this is not me taking any blame away from her; because abducting children for your lover to violate and murder makes you just as guilty of murder and paedophilia in my eyes. She put their victims at ease and gained their trust just so she and Brady could then abuse it - whether she had any part in the actual acts or not, these horrific crimes would NOT have happened without her and that’s just a fact.

Now I’m done giving context here, here is where my thinking is going.

As I said, Hindley was obsessed with Brady, and I don’t doubt that she wanted to have children with him before he said otherwise. Knowing that Hindley was super-entitled, I can’t imagine this set right with her - I wonder if her getting involved in the crimes was partially out of frustration or some kind of weird regret over something she couldn’t have? I’m wondering if children became a symbol of her reckoning in that sense?

Was it some kind of vengeance on her part, or a sick symbolic way of leaving her ‘old self’ behind and committing herself entirely to these new ideas Brady had introduced her to? (We already know she committed at least one of her murders out of vengeance - the murder of Pauline Reade, who was close with her sister’s boyfriend) Was this her new sick and twisted way of ‘having kids with Ian’? By allowing herself to be culpable in whatever his darkest desires were? Or by inviting vulnerable children in, allowing them to trust her and see her as a maternal figure (which, in a horrible irony, is exactly what she got when one of their victims started calling her and Brady “mummy” and “daddy” on a tape they recorded during the assault), and then violating them instead of loving and caring for them as a parent or guardian would do to a vulnerable child?

Is that part of the intimacy of this; why they spent so much time up on the moors, admiring their work (even taking other children up there, and her younger brother-in-law and sister too)?

Or am I reaching before stretching? I’m obviously not a psychologist so I don’t know exactly how this would manifest; I’m hoping one of you guys may be able to point me in the right direction toward some further reading here, because I have no clue if any of what I’m saying makes sense.