Mary Bell came from a horrible childhood background. Her mother Betty worked as a prostitute, and she later gave birth at the age of seventeen. Mary was born in England in May 26, 1957. Betty did not know who the biological father is; however, she married to a man named Billy Bell. Billy Bell was a criminal who was later charge for robbery. As a teen mom, Betty thought she could not keep a baby by her own, therefore she has attempt to murder her daughter Mary. Nevertheless, Betty never committed this action. Furthermore, Mary has suffered of sexual abuse. At age four, Mary was force by her mother to pursue the same job.
At age ten and eleven, Mary committed child murder. She strangled to death his young sibling of age four (Martin Brown). Later, Mary and her best friend Norma Joyce Bell strangled to death Brian Howe (Mary's youngest sibling, 3 years old). Besides strangling Howe, she also had "cut his hair, scratch his legs, and mutilate his penis" (St. Estephe pg. 6). Norma stated that Mary told her: “I squeezed his neck and pushed up his lung that’s how you kill them. Keep your nose dry and don’t tell anybody.”
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Four notes were found and one of them reads, "I murder so that I may come back." The style of the text looks like a young child had wrote this note; which links to Mary as a possible suspect. Another piece of evidence is when Mary strangled her siblings; fingerprints were left behind on the dead