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The Moors Murderers: Ian Brady & Myra Hindley

The media can always rely on the public's paedo knee-jerk reaction. Everyone hates the kiddy-fiddlers and murderers are even more loathed. There's money in it, simple as that.
 
The abnormal piece of shit should not be spoken about in the future, unfortunately, this will not happen as there will be continued documentaries on the whole sick affair, constantly reviving their notoriety.
Agreed .. the hell he'd fear the most would to be never spoken of again .. that's never going to happen now though ..
 
And I bet production companies are now falling over themselves to buy up the rights to display the public grief.
 
Now that satellite technology can identify in detail the remains (sometimes with nothing left in the ground as such) of very ancient cities, I would have thought the same could be used to spot possible grave sites on these moors, finally bringing the story to a close. Although probably not peoples fascination with it.
 
There is a large difference is the scale of target and terrain involved though.

Most of the cities/towns found are a good couple of acres in size and found in relatively stable areas, like forests or fields. So there are differences tree growth/type or crop markings that can be seen from above spreading across a fair sized area.

With a single grave you are talking about a much smaller area and from what has been posted above the terrian can change drastically within a couple of seasons so over the years any traces of a grave are very likely to have been removed and it is just going to be blind luck if they find something or not.
 
Literally needle in a haystack.

And do we even know, for a fact, that there's anything there?
 
Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders was involved in a one off punk band that released a song called Free Hindley ... legend has it that only one copy was pressed, no one was ever allowed to make a copy of it and journalists that were allowed to hear it were escorted in and out of a room so that they could listen .. as far as I know, the song to this day has never been released, Steve Severin has been touted as the vocalist on it ..

 
Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders was involved in a one off punk band that released a song called Free Hindley ... legend has it that only one copy was pressed, no one was ever allowed to make a copy of it and journalists that were allowed to hear it were escorted in and out of a room so that they could listen .. as far as I know, the song to this day has never been released, Steve Severin has been touted as the vocalist on it ..

And what an unfortunate groupie she is.
 
There's a new CH5 documentary called 'The Moors Murderers Left Me For Dead'.

(I grew up 30 miles away and was the age of one of the victims, and know people who knew people involved, so it's always been of interest to me. In my 20s I lived in the same area and would visit the pub which had been Brady's local. Didn't realise that until long after though, thankfully.)

It features people who were children at the time of the murders describing the effect they had on them and their families. Some are relations of victims and a couple are men who, as young boys, were nearly abducted themselves. One was taken to the murderers' house and climbed out of a window to escape!

There are details I hadn't heard before, such as an eye-witness account of little Lesley Ann's abduction from the funfair.

I'm wondering if there's still more to learn, now both the murderers are dead. There may have been reasons not to release certain facts, who knows?

It's on the catch-up, well worth a look.
 
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There's a new CH5 documentary called 'The Moors Murderers Left Me For Dead'.

(I grew up 30 miles away and was the age of one of the victims, and know people who people involved, so it's always been of interest to me. In my 20s I lived in the same area and would visit the pub which had been Brady's local. Didn't realise that until long after though, thankfully.)

It features people who were children at the time of the murders describing the effect they had on them and their families. Some are relations of victims and a couple are men who, as young boys, were nearly abducted themselves. One was taken to the murderers' house and climbed out of a window to escape!

There are details I hadn't heard before, such as an eye-witness account of little Lesley Ann's abduction from the funfair.

I'm wondering if there's still more to learn, now both the murderers are dead. There may have been reasons not to release certain facts, who knows?

It's on the catch-up, well worth a look.
I've just searched for it on the CH5 catch up but without finding it .. have you got direct link to it please? ..
 
Try searching Ch5 On Demand. I've just found it on there.
 
Found it cheers ! it's under 'Left For Dead S2 E1', I was typing in the Moors Murders at the beginning of the search instead of at the end ..
 
Found it cheers ! it's under 'Left For Dead S2 E1', I was typing in the Moors Murders at the beginning of the search instead of at the end ..

Aw, sorry, that's what it was called when I clicked on 'info' when watching it! How silly.
Anyway, I hope you, er, enjoy it. I liked the Manchester locations.
 
...With a single grave you are talking about a much smaller area and from what has been posted above the terrian can change drastically within a couple of seasons so over the years any traces of a grave are very likely to have been removed and it is just going to be blind luck if they find something or not.

Yes. There was a recent example in BBC2's rather good Manchester based documentary The Detectives: Murder on the Streets where, even over a relatively small location, using specialist teams, drones, LIDAR, cadaver dogs and even the cooperation of the perpetrator, it was not possible to find a grave.

Technology is not always a deus ex machina.
 
I intended to write a post expressing the hope that something good might come of the fires on Saddleworth Moor, i.e. that the deposition site of Keith Bennett's body might be uncovered. Unusually, it seems as though the Sun newspaper has scooped me:

"THE apocalyptic fire raging on Saddleworth Moor could help solve the 54-year-old mystery of where Ian Brady buried victim Keith Bennett, it has today been suggested.

Monster Brady never revealed the whereabouts of the 12-year-old boy’s remains, who was abducted while riding his bike in June 1964."

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/66475...moors-murders-ian-brady-victim-keith-bennett/

maximus otter
 
It would be nice, but I can't see how they'd spot the resulting ashes among the rest of the devastation, unless it was at the very edge of the fire's spread.
 
Here's the TV drama Longford from 2006, starring Jim Broadbent as Lord Longford.
Andy Serkis and Samantha Morton portray Brady and Hindley.
I didn't see it at the time and was pleased to find it on YouTube.

Hindley used Longford as she did anyone who took an interest in her. Everyone could see this except him and his defence of her was counter-productive.


 
I don't want to detract from the tragedy of the Moor Murders, but was surprised to read that the amateur sleuth (Russell Edwards) who discovered the putative remains of Keith Bennett had "after years of dedicated research, produced the definitive evidence to prove the identity of the world’s most famous murderer: Jack the Ripper". Did I miss something ?

https://www.thejacktherippertour.co.uk/russell-edwards/

Further discussion relating to the JtR case has been moved to:
Jack The Ripper (Compendium Thread)
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/jack-the-ripper-compendium-thread.993/
 
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It's unfortunate this is being given the coverage it has been - according to the police NO human remains have yet been found.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...human-remains-found-yet-search-keith-bennett/
The more I hear about this, the less likely it sounds like the author has the right location. He has made claims of finding material, bones and possibly a skull. But the police have found no human remains.

I suspect the police were going to follow up his claims to have found a location as quietly as possible. Unfortunately, the writer spoke to the Daily Mail journalists and the story got out, so the police had to make a public statement about the investigation at least.

Could he be prosecuted for wasting police time/resources and causing additional grief to the family if nothing is found there?
 
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