Becoming Ian Brady — Season 1, Episode 1: A Dark Path
Documentary • 46 min • 1 season, 3 episodes
Episode synopsis
Ian Brady, born Ian Stewart, was born in Glasgow in the early 1930s. He experienced a tough childhood, starting with feelings of abandonment when his mum, unable to cope as a single parent, gave him up for adoption at just four months old, and his home, in the poverty-stricken slums of the Gorbals, was a hotbed of criminality.
About Becoming Ian Brady
The Moors Murders shocked Britain in the 1960s. Five children tortured and murdered at the hands of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. Countless documentaries have focused on Hindley, the antithesis of everything society believes a woman to be, but this series turns the lens on Brady to take a unique look at what made Ian Brady into arguably the UK's worst ever serial killer.