Minnie Davis
Hello, gorgeous girl! Haven’t seen or heard from you for AGES. Then Pippa said you’re working on something for her. Snap! How are you?
Amanda Bailey
The Alperton Angels. So much redacted at the time due to underage victims and no one has come forward to tell their stories since. Not the teenagers (now in their 30s) and not the baby (nearly 18). It’s still a mystery. What’s your memory of the case?
Minnie Davis
I mean how are YOU, not work. Angels and devils, wasn’t it?
Amanda Bailey
They were a small cult of men, who all died, plus a teenage couple and their baby, who survived. A grisly mass suicide – with no true crime coverage. Found a few novels
Minnie Davis
There were at least two TV dramas.
Amanda Bailey
Must be strange for the real people.
Minnie Davis
Does the baby know they were the baby in the Alperton Angels case?
Amanda Bailey
Soon will.
Minnie Davis
They could’ve watched and read stuff oblivious it’s about them.
Amanda Bailey
You’ve given me an idea. The bods who fictionalised the case early on might be useful. Mark Dunning wrote a novel called White Wings. He thanks ‘everyone involved in the Alperton Angels case’ who ‘helped’ him – the book came out eighteen months later. He must’ve been chasing the hearse.
Amanda Bailey
Hearses.
Minnie Davis
I’ve struck gold with my commission. Most people connected to the Moors Murders are dead and relatives of the Wests stopped speaking to media years ago. No interviews, thank God.
Amanda Bailey
Lucky you
Minnie Davis
And that’s not the best thing. Met a girl who wrote a feminist thesis on female murderers. Sent me her piece on Rose and Myra – drop dead brilliant – photographs that will chill the flesh from your bones, Mand. She said use whatever you want, just credit me in the acknowledgements. I’ve based the entire premise on it.
Amanda Bailey
She’s OK with that?
