Disappearance of Pauline Reade

Date: July 12, 1963 • Location: Longsight, United Kingdom

Sixteen-year-old Pauline Reade, the first victim of serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, disappeared in Gorton, England.

The Moors murders were a series of murders of children committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in and around Manchester, England, between July 1963 and October 1965. The five known 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. Keith Bennett's body is also thought to be buried there, but despite repeated searches it remains undiscovered.