Moors Murders - Skull Found

[Nymzee]

Fingers crossed it's Keith

 

[tommytowne]

….apparently the bloke who discovered the skull is an author on the subject.

i was under the impression there had been numerous excavations looking for Keith Bennett so amazing a sleuth could make this find (hoping it’s the youngster). I recall one expert saying the ground moves on the moors to such an extent that a body could literally travel miles over 50 years.

i have often thought of this case when travelling ‘over the top’ on my many trips to Leeds before I retired.

My mother at that time was horrified at what had gone on, and I sensed even then that it affected her badly. Once I'd moved over to the East Riding the first time I brought my parents over the tops and she saw the sign for Saddleworth she was brought to tears as she looked onto the bleak landscape.

 

[4737carlin]

My mother at that time was horrified at what had gone on, and I sensed even then that it affected her badly. Once I'd moved over to the East Riding the first time I brought my parents over the tops and she saw the sign for Saddleworth she was brought to tears as she looked onto the bleak landscape.

Ive done a lot of hiking over the years in National Parks and its one area ive never done for this very reason, far too bleak

 

[Littlesue]

Grim reminder it is.
Rarely did such events grab the attention of the nation such as these killings.
As a young boy myself, reading the Mirror and some of the details contained within the paper scared the crap out of me.
I think I read a book about the whole episode written by one of the detectives on the case and once again even a bit older by then, I couldn't believe people were so cruel and twisted as those two.

Yes can just remember it myself as a young lass although a few years later there were The Cannock Chase Murders and then early 70's we had The infamous "Black Panther" post office murders and the abduction of Leslie Whittleas they were both happening in and around The Black Country

 

[PhilM]

Hopefully, they're able to finally locate his remains and give him the time-honoured burial that the majority receive, letting him and his family to finally rest.

Knowing people who worked at Ashworth with Brady alongside the details of the case, it's a travesty that they missed out on being hanged due to a change in law.

A waste of resources on both of them.

 

[bluejohn66]

I used to work with a retired bobby, who joined the CID in Liverpool in the 60s. Part of their training was to study an ongoing case that happened to be the Hindley/Brady murders. He told me that one day they played them, in full, the infamous tapes, that these monsters had made. He said that these men were tough and hardened Liverpool coppers, who would never show emotion. Including himself he said that he'd never seen a group of men crumble and literally cry buckets. He said that he never got over that day and a day would never go by without the screams and pleading of that poor child in his head.

 

[Terrarian]

I hope it is him, such a shame his mother passed before it was found.

 

[Jimishorts]

Very very sad and far too late for his mother but at least he can be given a proper grave now.

Saw an interview with the chap who owns the land and he met his mother just before she died and promised to continue looking for Keiths body.

Hope for all concerned this will be finally resolved after all these years.

 

[dublinbluenose]

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Sounds like the author was after self publicity. Whole thing didn’t seem right

 

[Rob17896]

My mother at that time was horrified at what had gone on, and I sensed even then that it affected her badly. Once I'd moved over to the East Riding the first time I brought my parents over the tops and she saw the sign for Saddleworth she was brought to tears as she looked onto the bleak landscape.

Saddleworth can be bleak, it is also absolutely beautiful but those two monsters have tainted it forever

 

[Armaghtoffee]

Sounds like the author was after self publicity. Whole thing didn’t seem right

If that is the case he should be held to account to at least establish that his book is based on established fact and reasonable presumption.

 

[Littlesue]

If that is the case he should be held to account to at least establish that his book is based on established fact and reasonable presumption.

Yes agree, so upsetting for Keiths famiky

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Sounds like the author was after self publicity. Whole thing didn’t seem right

Ye was obv hoping they might find something and give closure to the family but the author's track record was worrying. Wrote a lot of self-aggrandising bobbins with his jack the ripper book and seemed like he was after a repeat performance.

Could be wrong - don't know too much about him and sometimes it takes a crank to make things happen. But didn't sit right with reports of a child's skull being found when afaik that never happened.

 

[Nymzee]

So was there human no skull found? I’m confused