Brady, Ian (1938– )

British murderer who, with Myra Hindley, abducted, sexually abused, and murdered two children and a 17-year-old youth between 1963 and 1965. They were known as ‘the Moors Murderers’ because they buried most of their victims on Saddleworth Moor in the Pennines, England.

In a case that horrified the British public, Brady and Hindley documented their activities, to the extent of taking photographs and recording the torment of their victims. They were arrested after Hindley's brother-in-law witnessed a murder and went to the police. During the mid-1980s Brady and Hindley separately confessed to the murder of two other children. Brady is now in a maximum security hospital on Merseyside.