Myra Hindley: Moors Murderer 'tried to become middle class' But prison officials continued to regard Hindley as an "arch manipulator" and a "scheming woman" who was "cold and calculating" and "devoid of emotion," the Daily Mail reported. With her lover and partner in crime Ian Brady, Hindley was responsible for the murders of five children in the 1960s. They were lured to their deaths, sexually tortured and buried on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester. Hindley was jailed for life in May 1966 for the murders of Lesley Ann Downey, ten, and Edward Evans, 17, plus being accessory to the murder of 12-year-old John Kilbride by Brady. Despite her criminal notoriety she had a "very conscientious" attitude towards her jobs in jail and was put in charge of the kitchen on E wing at Holloway Prison in North London, the files show. The astonishing disclosures are made in the confidential files, which they have been released early to the national archives due to the huge public interest in her life. Tom Clark, a Sheffield University lecturer, has spent three years studying the boxes of typed reports and handwritten notes that fill more than 30ft of shelf space. They are compiled by fellow prisoners, welfare workers, probation officers, warders and chaplains, the newspaper reported. In 1987 Hindley and Brady confessed to murdering Pauline Reade, 16, and Keith Bennett, 12. Hindley died in 2002 aged 60. As far back as 1974 a prison governor, who had hour-long monthly chats with Hindley, was sufficiently impressed to suggest a "target date" be set so that "parole should be a practical possibility." She then pursued a long campaign for parole, which was always denied her by the courts and the Home Secretary.