July 23, 1942 - Myra Hindley
Hindley's case became one of the most closely examined in British criminal history, in part because her role challenged prevailing assumptions about women and violence. Over two years in the early 1960s, she and Ian Brady abducted and killed five children in the Manchester area, at least four of whom were sexually assaulted. For decades she maintained her innocence before confessing in 1987, and one victim — Keith Bennett — was never recovered despite her participation in searches of Saddleworth Moor.
From Wikipedia
The Moors murders were a series of child killings committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in and around Manchester, England, between July 1963 and October 1965. The five victims – Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans – were aged between 10 and 17, and at least four were sexually assaulted. The bodies of two of the victims were discovered in 1965, in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered there in 1987, more than twenty years after Brady and Hindley's trial. Bennett's body is also thought to be buried there, but despite repeated searches it remains undiscovered.
Brady and Hindley were charged only for the murders of Kilbride, Downey and Evans, and received life sentences under a whole life order. The investigation was reopened in 1985 after Brady was reported as having confessed to the murders of Reade and Bennett. Hindley stopped claiming her innocence in 1987 and confessed to all of the murders. After confessing to these additional murders, Brady and Hindley were taken separately to Saddleworth Moor to assist in the search for the graves.
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