![]() ![]() She did not use a gun like today’s child-murderers, whether from the affluent suburbs or the streets of the inner city rather, she strangled the two little boys, and drew her initials on the belly of one of them, with her bare hands. Mary Bell’s crime was different in other respects, too. Nor had Mary Bell gone to violent movies like The Basketball Diaries or played video games like Doom instead, she watched the 1950’s-style Westerns popular on English television at the time, entertainment we associate with a safer and more innocent age. ![]() The case differed strikingly from the rash of juvenile murders that has erupted with such fury here, most recently in Littleton, Colorado.įor one thing, the killer was no glandular teenager out for revenge against cruel peers or a jilting lover she was a clever and pretty eleven-year-old girl, and her two male victims were, shockingly, three and four years old. ![]() In 1968, a juvenile from a poor section of the decaying English industrial town of Newcastle-on-Tyne murdered two neighborhood children in separate incidents nine weeks apart. Cries Unheard-Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell ![]()
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