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She didn't want to kill children. But she did. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile the Beatles were singing their first beautiful love songs, Myra helped her lover, Ian, kill children. She would be branded in history as \"The Most Hated Woman in Britain,\" one of the most notorious British female serial killers in history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSleeping With The Devil is more than a simple biography of a criminal. It is a classic British true crime story of a police investigation that discovers a young couple -- serial killers -- were terrorizing Manchester with a killing spree; crimes of murder and mayhem in the early 1960s.But, it's even more than that. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSleeping With The Devil is also a love story; the story of a woman who refused to stop loving her man even though she knew he was a vile demon, a devil. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDid Myra Hindley fall in love with the wrong man, a violent man, who fantasized about killing children? 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