Talk:Myra Hindley
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[edit] Handprints
Would just like to comment upon the trivia section that states the hindley/handprint artwork got seriously vandalised, to the point where a perspex screen was erected and armed guards were stationed to protect it. I can believe that the public were offended by and tried to deface the painting, but... Pardon me if i am wrong but the only people authorised to carry arms are either the army or the police. I don't believe that either of those 2 groups felt it necessary to defend a painting that seems to commemorate Myra Hindley and the Moors murders. I am not a daily mail reader who becomes morally outraged by any reference to crime, I just think that this report cannot be factually accurate.
- Errr... the perspex screen was to prevent paint being thrown on it. Arniep 17:49, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply. I understand the purpose of the perspex screen. What I doubt is that this painting had an armed guard. Most regional airports don't have armed police, never mind art galleries.
Cheshirec: I have removed the word 'unfortunately' from the article, re: Her death just prior to a Law Lord's ruling that would have almost certainly led to her release. I think whether it's unfortunate she died before she was let out or not really is a matter of opinion, and doesn't belong in the article.
Hotlorp: with all respect, just because you don't care how those kid's handprints were made doesn't mean it doesn't belong in the article. I think it's quite important to have it in there, because the artist has come in for enough stick over that painting as it is without also giving the impression that he actually got kids to stand before a canvas and make this picture of a child-murderer themselves. --Camembert
Ok, I agree, even though I originally wrote it! Hope you don't mind the removal of the (surely irrelevant) "acrylic". Hotlorp
- Sorry if I sounded a bit brusque there - I'm rather tired and irritable at the moment :) Yep, I agree that "acrylic" is surplus to requirements. --Camembert
If the black and white picture is so central to the public image of the case, could someone find it and download it? It must be public domain. Ortolan88 04:40 Nov 19, 2002 (UTC)
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- It's very easy to find this picture just go to google select the images tab and a dozen or so results will come back. But is it in the public domain?
If the police released the picture and it has become canonical, I'm sure it must be PD, but I haven't ever moved an image and don't plan to start. BTW, I didn't remove the link to Moors Murders, I moved it. Now there are two links. Ortolan88
I believe this page should be sectionalized and I think a new category should be called known as Female Serial Killers as they are obviously rarer than male serial killers. We divide singers into Male and Female why not Serial Killers? --Redwolf24 05:22, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Did she really use a pick-up truck. This type of vehicle is still pretty rare in the UK and I believe that they were even more so in the 1960's. Could it have been a van (i.e. an enclosed vehicle rather than with an open load bed? Eorake 18:50, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
I believe it was a Mini Traveller, a type of enlongated Mini in common use at the time. Gino Pearce 13:15, 5th January 2006
Armed guards ?? this appears to have been added by a contributor called 'Penguin2006' . I do not believe it either. The WP article on the exhibition uses the phrase ' guarded by security men ' 82.38.97.206 17:47, 29 April 2006 (UTC)mikeL
[edit] Goo album cover
The comment about the Goo album cover in the Trivia section contradicts the Goo article. I don't know enough about the case or Sonic Youth to resolve this discrepancy. Can someone please reconcile this? — Zaui (talk) 17:48, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- The album cover does not depict Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. The Goo article is correct in referencing that it featured David and Maureen Smith. I think the editor on this page got confused because Myra Hindley was Maureen Smith's sister. Recommending that this section is removed. -- Ian Abbott, 20:28, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Trivia?
Please don't take this as an example of knee-jerk moral outrage, but can we have another title for this section? It strikes me as rather inappropriate.
Also, the article states that David Smith was visiting at the time when Edward Evans was murdered. The "See No Evil" drama-documentary has Hindley going to Smith's house and taking him back to Brady and Hindley's house, where Brady had already brought Evans - Smith was to come in and threaten to beat up the victim, ostensibly to force him to give them money - if this is actually the case, then this sentence needs re-wording. Camillus (talk) 23:26, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Longford
- "A small group of supporters, led by the former Labour peer Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford . . . ."
To what does the adjective "former" apply? —Tamfang 03:43, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
- I believe that someone meant to say the late Labour Peer as in, he has passed away. I'll look at the main text and edit if needed.Lisapollison 05:51, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- I just had a look and that text has been edited right out and the current version of the article has appropriate reference to him simply as Lord Longford. I'll look at the Moors Murders article as well.Lisapollison 05:54, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Quotes
Couldn't find any sources except the second one (I think). This was the only one that I could find, but thought it would be stupid to even have the section at all, thus I have removed it. Please feel free to add in the quotes, but please add in your sources. Kilo-Lima|(talk) 18:26, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Catagories
Why is she in the catogoy or LGBT people from Britain? Nothing of her article suggest she was any of the above.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Scarletswitchblade (talk • contribs).
- She had a lesbian relationship in prison. However was she a killer/serial killer/child killer/murdress? Rich Farmbrough, 22:36 2 October 2006 (GMT).
- SHe was found guilty of 2 murdrs, therefore I have removed "serial killer". Rich Farmbrough, 22:47 2 October 2006 (GMT).
[edit] Murder weapon - Keith Bennett
According to Peter Topping's book, in Myra's confession, she mentions Brady burning a piece of white string which had been used in the murder of Keith Bennett.
[edit] See also
Soho club night which uses her image and name[1]
- Do links like the above really belong in this article? It clearly has absolutely nothing to do with Hindley herself, but is just using the shock value of her name and image as a promotional device.
- I mean, for all I know (or care), some club in Scunthorpe might run a Soham Murders Night every other Friday, but such information would be unlikely to be deemed appropriate for the Ian Huntley article. 217.155.20.163 21:24, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- Perhaps someone should add a paragraph that explains her culutral significance and the appropriation of her name and image by those wishing to use it for shock value. it's not unlike groups or individuals in the USA appropriating the name(s) of any of the Mason killings perpetrators for shock value.LiPollis 05:38, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thoughts
Although Myra was a killer, couldnt she be a nice woman aswell? she madde mistakes, and paid the price, but in the eyes of our lord, we should all be forgiven.
