Lucy Letby joins grim list of Britain’s most notorious serial killers
As Letby, 33, is convicted of murder of seven babies, we take a look at some of the country’s most shocking murderers
October 2022
Doubts over evidence behind futile dig for Moors murder victim Keith Bennett
Search ends for Moors murder victim Keith Bennett after no remains found
Moors murder: Keith Bennett’s brother voices frustration over search
Police yet to find remains of Moors murder victim Keith Bennett in dig
September 2022
Police dig for Moors victim Keith Bennett after skull reportedly found
Detectives are analysing a small sample of the remains and some clothing on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester
February 2022
TV review
Moors Murders: The Witness review – these heinous crimes have nothing more to teach us
This three-part documentary which hangs on ‘never before seen’ letters and an interview with Myra Hindley’s brother-in-law is a thinly veiled ratings-chaser with little value
September 2021
What are whole-life orders and which killers have received them?
Prisoners in England and Wales are handed such sentences for the most serious cases of murder
November 2020
Open door
Was it right to give Peter Sutcliffe a Guardian obituary?
Elisabeth Ribbans
Many readers thought an obituary about the man who murdered 13 women was an ‘honour’ he did not merit, says the Guardian and Observer’s global readers’ editor, Elisabeth Ribbans
March 2019
'I feel like they've still got him': brother's search for Moors victim
Alan Bennett discusses meeting Myra Hindley and why Ian Brady’s briefcases offer fresh hope
October 2018
The Audio Long Read
The myth of the she-devil: why we judge female criminals more harshly – podcast
The long read
The myth of the she-devil: why we judge female criminals more harshly
November 2017
Don’t condemn sound judgment as PC behaviour
Barbara Ellen
Police kept body parts of Moors murders victim without family's knowledge
July 2017
Thatcher overruled minister to keep Moors murderers locked up for life
Letter released by National Archives reveals PM disagreed with her home secretary’s advice on parole for Myra Hindley and Ian Brady
Suffer little children: how Ian Brady cast a dark shadow over popular culture
No serial killers have exercised and repulsed the British public as much as the Moors murderers – as artists from the Smiths to Marcus Harvey have discovered
‘An almost biblical notion of evil’ – why Ian Brady haunts the British psyche
Other child killers have slid off into obscurity, but Brady and fellow Moors murderer Myra Hindley have fascinated and revolted the nation for 50 years. We still haven’t heard the last of them
Ian Brady escaped hanging – and defined attitudes to the death penalty
