A new documentary showing on the BBC tonight claims to have uncovered new evidence which could finally solve the case
The Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, were sentenced to life in 1966 for killing three children, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, John Kilbride, 12, and Edward Evans, 17.
Twenty-one years later, they also confessed to murdering Pauline Reade, 16, and Keith Bennett
Reade’s body was found on Saddleworth Moor in 1987, but Bennett has never been found.
But now a team, including author and film-maker Duncan Staff, former murder detective Martin Slevin and forensic archaeologist Professor John Hunter, has examined past investigations, rediscovered files and delved into Ian Brady’s archive.
They reveal possible grave sites, uncover critical material and perhaps help to solve a case that’s remained open for nearly 60 years.
Central to the solving are the remaining 200 pages of Brady’s manuscript which could potentially hold his version of 12 year old Keith Bennett’s murder and burial in 1964, according to claims.
The absent pages are thought to have been left with Brady’s solicitor.
Bennett went missing on June 16, 1964, whilst he was on the way to visit his grandmother.
Bennett’s mother Winnie Johnson fought tirelessly to try and find the young boy’s body, and even went to the Moors herself to search for him. She died in 2012 at the age of 78.
The Moors Murders documentary filmmaker Duncan Smith hopes that the new BBC documentary will help bring justice to the victim’s families, namely Bennett’s family. In a statement, he said: “The purpose of this project is to reveal why this case has never been closed and to show how victims’ families have been traumatised for generations as a result.
