Mary Flora Bell scribe Gitta Sereny dead at 91

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Although much of her work concerned the Third Reich, Ms Sereny became perhaps best known for her investigations into Mary Bell, who served 12 years’ imprisonment for the manslaughter of two young boys in the late 1960s when she was aged between ten and 11.

An acclaimed study by Ms Sereny at the time of the killings was followed in 1998 by a second book, Cries Unheard, which became highly controversial after it emerged that the author had shared her publishing fee with Ms Bell, by then a mother-of-one who had been granted an anonymity order.

In a letter to the mother of one of Bell’s victims, Ms Sereny, who used the book to explain for the first time the child killer’s account of the abuse she herself suffered, said her purpose had been “not to re-live these terrible crimes, but to find some understanding of how they could happen.”
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wfgodot said:

Yes, checked - could have sworn I'd seen one, must have dreamt it; it's come down to this: dreaming of non-existent WS threads on English child killers of the 1960s, lol. Yikes, help!

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STANDREID said:

I did bring Bell up on the JtR 123 thread here about 6 weeks ago regarding solo female mutilation serial killers and you commented there about her. That's all I know anything about.:waitasec:

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