The What and Why of Serial Killers

The two worked at the same company and when they met Myra was immediately attracted to him, but Ian kept her at a distance, acting cold and uninterested towards her. For a year Myra continued to try and gain his attention when at last at a party a drunk Ian asked her out. It became a dominant, submissive relationship. Ian converted Myra to his way of thinking. She stopped going to church, changed her appearance to suit him, and believed everything he told her was the gospel truth. She allowed him to take pornographic pictures of her and of the two of them acting out sadomasochistic fantasies. She also agreed to robbing banks with him although this never materialized.

The need to satisfy his sexual desires overtook any ideas of bank robberies and Ian was totally at ease with his control over Myra so he embarked on his ultimate fantasy. He used Myra to lure children into his fatal web. Their first victim was a 16 year old girl. Myra enticed her into their minivan and drove to the Moors with Ian following on his motor cycle. She asked the young girl to help her search for her glove and while intent on looking for the glove, Ian pounced on her and raped her with Myra looking on. After he had done raping her he smashed her skull and cut her throat then buried her body in the Moors with Myra’s help. Their second victim, a 12 year old boy, was also raped. Ian tried to stab him with a knife but the knife was blunt so he strangled the child with a piece of string and buried his body in a shallow grave on the Moors. The third victim, another boy of 12 years old met the same fate.

The three Ian killed so far was too quick and easy for him so his next victim, a 10 year old girl, he took his time. He tied her up and gagged her, after taking all her clothes off. Then he raped and tortured her while Myra recorded the event on audio tape. The more she pleaded for her life and screamed in pain the more Ian was enjoying himself. Myra found great pleasure in what Ian was doing because firstly she hated children and secondly she was pleasing Ian. The young girl eventually died and they once again buried the body in a shallow grave on the Moors.