Cries Unheard: The Story of Mary Bell

a book

Cries Unheard: The Story of Mary Bell

Gitta Sereny · 1998 · 393 pages

An account of the poignant case of Mary Bell and the two toddlers she killed at the age of 11, in a poor area of industrial England in 1968. Her own life with an uncaring mother who worked as a prostitute and a drunken father is described. Since her release, Mary Bell has lived incognito.

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