I\'m guessing we are suppose to know who she is. I guess she\'s a big name in England. Saw some stories of her since you wrote this totally nondescript thread.
British child-killer Myra Hindley dead at 60
Hindley and her lover Ian Brady were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1966 for the "Moors Murders", in which they abducted, abused, tortured and killed two children.
Britain\'s Prison Service says Hindley died in hospital aged 60 after a long illness.
She was Britain\'s longest-serving female prisoner.
Convicted murderer Myra Hindley, reviled throughout Britain for sexually abusing and killing children with her lover in the notorious Moors murders in the 1960s, has died aged 60, a British prison service spokesman said.
Hindley was given last rites by a priest earlier on Friday local time at her bedside in West Suffolk hospital in Bury Saint Edmunds in eastern England, where she was admitted on Tuesday local time with severe respiratory problems.
Hindley and her then-companion Ian Brady, 64, were jailed for life in 1966 for the sexual abuse, torture and murder of three youngsters whose bodies were buried on Saddleworth Moor, near Manchester in northern England.
In 1987, when Hindley was getting counseling from a priest, the pair confessed to two other child killings, adding to the hatred felt by many Britons for what she and her lover had done.
"We can confirm Myra Hindley died at the West Suffolk hospital at 4:58 pm [16:58 GMT] today following respiratory failure," a prison service spokesman said in a statement.
"Her next of kin have been informed.
""There will now be a coroner\'s inquest as is routine with any prisoner who dies in custody."
In a public statement in 1994, Hindley expressed remorse and begged mercy from a nation that came to see her as evil personified.
"Without me, these crimes could probably not have been committed," Hindley said.
"I ask people to judge me as I am now and not as I was then."
Hindley was serving her 36th year behind bars at Highpoint medium security prison in Suffolk, where she was transferred at her request in 1998 from maximum security Durham prison.
During her years in prison, Hindley became a Roman Catholic, did an Open University degree in humanities and in 1995 secretly "married" her female lover Nina Wilde, a Dutch-born criminologist.
A chain smoker, she has been in poor health for many years, suffering from angina and osteoporosis.
Earlier this month she was admitted to hospital with a suspected heart attack.
For his part, Brady remains at high-security Ashworth hospital in Merseyside in north-west England, where for three years he has been on a hunger strike, kept alive by forced feeding through a plastic tube.
Hindley, daughter of a Manchester construction laborer who, she later said, had a violent streak, was by all accounts a normal girl, much sought after as a baby-sitter - until she met Brady.
He had developed a fascination with Hitler and the 18th Century French writer Marquis de Sade during brief spells in prison in the early 1960s for minor offences, and met Hindley while the two worked at a small chemicals firm.
Their first victim, 16-year-old Pauline Read vanished in July 1963 on her way to a discotheque and her body was only found in a shallow grave after the 1987 confessions.
Second to die was John Kilbride, on the same November day in 1963 that US president John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Kilbride had been lured onto the moor, sexually assaulted, then murdered.
A picture taken by Brady of Hindley posing on the edge of his grave holding her pet dog would later lead police to the site.
Victim number three, 12-year-old Keith Bennett vanished after he left his home in Chorlton-on Medlock in Manchester in June 1964.
His body has never been found.
Lesley Ann Downey, the fourth to die, was at age 10, the pair\'s youngest victim.
She was enticed from a fairground to a house Hindley shared with her grandmother.
There in Hindley\'s bedroom the girl was stripped, sexually abused, tortured, and forced to pose for pornographic photos.
The horror was recorded on a 16 minute, 21 second audio tape later played in court.
The fifth victim, 17-year-old Edward Evans was lured from a gay bar to a home shared by Brady and Hindley, then killed by the blows of an axe.
His murder was witnessed by Hindley\'s brother-in-law, David Smith, who tipped off police.
A spokeswoman for Greater Manchester Police says they will continue to investigate any relevant information that comes to light in regard to the Moors murders, despite Hindley\'s death.
