Moors Murderers: Myra Hindley and Ian Brady
Police digging for the remains of the last known victim of serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley have uncovered a skull, according to reports.
Schoolboy Keith Bennett is the last remaining victim of the Moors murderers yet to be found. The 12-year-old was last seen on June 16, 1964, when he left his family home to stay with his grandmother.
Brady took the secret of where 12-year-old Keith is buried to his grave. But detectives who haven’t given up the search are believed to have uncovered the skull on Saddleworth Moor.
Greater Manchester Police are said to be looking at a small sample of material thought to be clothing found buried 3ft underground beside the skull.
Brady tortured and killed five children with partner Myra Hindley in the 1960s. He died aged 79 from cancer and emphysema, after spending more than five decades behind bars.
Amateur sleuth Russell Edwards believes that Brady meticulously planned where to bury his victims because he wanted to create the shape of a swastika.
Archaeologist Dawn Keen, who specialises in the study of human remains, remotely supervised the ‘grave cut’.
She told The Mail: “I do believe there are human remains there. They [police] have got to look.
“From the photographs, I saw the teeth, I could see the canines, I could see the incisors, I could see the first molar. It is the left side of an upper jaw. There is no way that it is an animal.”
He was jailed for the killings of John Kilbride, 12, 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans, 17, in 1966.
He went on to admit the murders of Keith and Pauline Reade, 16.
The remains of three of his victims were found on Saddleworth Moor. The body of another was found at Brady and Hindley’s house.
