Do Past Events and Childhood Experiences Have an Effect on Why a Serial Killer Led a Life of Killing in Later Life?
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Do past events and childhood experiences have an effect on why a serial killer led a life of killing in later life?
Ian Brady, born 1938
Ian Brady was born in Glasgow, Scotland on January 2nd 1938. Brady was a troubled child and served prison time for burglary and petty crime, as an adult Brady murdered multiple children with his girlfriend, Myra Hindley. Both were arrested and convicted in the 1960’s.
Early life Ian Brady was born in a Glasgow, Scotland slum on January 2, 1938, to single mother Peggy Stuart. He never knew his father's identity. Unable to afford a babysitter, and working as a waitress to support them, she was forced to leave Ian alone for long periods of time, and she gave him up for unofficial adoption when he was four months old, visiting him fairly regularly until he was 12, although she never told him that she was his mother.
Brady was a lonely, difficult child, despite the attempts of his adoptive parents. Prone to temper tantrums and slow to integrate with his peers. He developed a fascination with the Nazis and the writings of Nietzsche, and began a career in petty crime and burglary, which resulted in his return, aged 16, to live with his mother and stepfather Patrick Brady, in order to avoid a custodial sentence.
Brady took his stepfather's name. He took interest in the Third Reich, as well as in the writings of the Marquis de Sade, and other sadistic authors. He returned to crime and as a result, ended up in Strangeways Prison at the age of 17, where he was forced to toughen up, whilst also learning rudimentary bookkeeping skills.
When he was released in November 1957 he became a loner, employed at different manual jobs for short periods, until he took a job as a stock clerk with a Manchester firm. It was here that he met Myra Hindley, when she was employed as a secretary in 1961.
Hindley was drawn to Brady, seeing romance and intelligence in his superiority. Hindley wrote of her feelings for him in her diary
Do past events and childhood experiences have an effect on why a serial killer led a life of killing in later life?
Ian Brady, born 1938
Ian Brady was born in Glasgow, Scotland on January 2nd 1938. Brady was a troubled child and served prison time for burglary and petty crime, as an adult Brady murdered multiple children with his girlfriend, Myra Hindley. Both were arrested and convicted in the 1960’s.
Early life Ian Brady was born in a Glasgow, Scotland slum on January 2, 1938, to single mother Peggy Stuart. He never knew his father's identity. Unable to afford a babysitter, and working as a waitress to support them, she was forced to leave Ian alone for long periods of time, and she gave him up for unofficial adoption when he was four months old, visiting him fairly regularly until he was 12, although she never told him that she was his mother.
Brady was a lonely, difficult child, despite the attempts of his adoptive parents. Prone to temper tantrums and slow to integrate with his peers. He developed a fascination with the Nazis and the writings of Nietzsche, and began a career in petty crime and burglary, which resulted in his return, aged 16, to live with his mother and stepfather Patrick Brady, in order to avoid a custodial sentence.
Brady took his stepfather's name. He took interest in the Third Reich, as well as in the writings of the Marquis de Sade, and other sadistic authors. He returned to crime and as a result, ended up in Strangeways Prison at the age of 17, where he was forced to toughen up, whilst also learning rudimentary bookkeeping skills.
When he was released in November 1957 he became a loner, employed at different manual jobs for short periods, until he took a job as a stock clerk with a Manchester firm. It was here that he met Myra Hindley, when she was employed as a secretary in 1961.
Hindley was drawn to Brady, seeing romance and intelligence in his superiority. Hindley wrote of her feelings for him in her diary