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| Bennett,Keith June 1964; United Kingdom-England 12 years old | |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Mar 26 2008, 08:39 PM Post #1 |
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Keith Bennett Missing since June 1964 from Longsight, England, United Kingdom. Classification: Non-Family Abduction -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vital Statistics Age at Time of Disappearance: 12 years old Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Blond hair. He wears glasses. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Circumstances of Disappearance In 1964 the infamous Moors Murderers approached a young boy at a fair. His name was Keith Bennett. Myra Hindley dropped some boxes she was pretending were Christmas presents and asked Bennett to pick them up. Pretenending she needed help to unload them at her home, she asked Keith to go with her and Ian Brady. Thinking he was helping, Keith got in the car. The car was driven to Saddleworth Moor. Hindley claimed she had lost a glove and asked Keith to help look for it. Brady then brought Keith with him to a remote area. Half an hour later Brady returned, alone. He had sexually assaulted Keith and strangled him with a piece of string before burying him. When Hindley and Brady were arrested they denied murder. They went to prison. Years later they confessed and attempted to help locate the bodies. They found four of their five victims. Hindley is now deceased. Neither of them could remember where they buried Keith Bennett. All that is known is that his body is buried somewhere on Saddleworth Moor near a stream. Hand drawn map by Myra Hindley -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Investigators If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Greater Manchester Police 0161 793 3020/3021 |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Mar 26 2008, 08:40 PM Post #2 |
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| wv171 | Nov 13 2008, 02:13 PM Post #3 |
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The Moors murders were committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley around the Manchester area of England between 1963 and 1965. The Moors murders are so named because four of the victims were buried to the north of the A635, Greenfield Road, over Saddleworth Moor between Oldham, then in Lancashire, and the Wessenden Road junction to Meltham, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Their five victims were children aged between 10 and 17 years. Keith Bennett The third victim was 12-year-old Keith Bennett (born 12 June 1952) who vanished on his way to his grandmother's house in Gorton on 16 June 1964 – four days after his 12th birthday. Bennett accepted a lift from Hindley near Stockport Road in Longsight. She drove to Saddleworth Moor and asked him to help search for a lost glove. Brady then lured Bennett into a ravine, where he strangled him with a piece of string before burying his body. Hindley stood above the ravine and watched the murder. Hindley later confessed that she had destroyed the photographs taken at the site of this particular murder, that had been kept at Brady's workplace at Millwards. Hindley had access to these photographs during the four days between Brady's arrest and her own in October 1965. On 18 November 1986, Brady and Hindley confessed to Bennett's murder and that of Pauline Reade. A renewed search effort in 1987 saw both Brady and Hindley visit the Moors under police guard in effort to locate his grave, but the search was unsuccessful and his body has never been found. Ian Brady has said that if he is allowed to die he will point out where the boy is buried. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Bennett |
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| monkalup | Jul 1 2009, 10:03 PM Post #4 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.key103.co.uk/Article.asp?id=1394131&spid=23160 Detectives have officially called off the search for the last un-traced victim of Manchester Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Keith Bennett was just 12-years-old when the pair kidnapped and killed him in 1964. 45 years on and his body has never been found. Today police scaled down their investigation to dormant and say only if there is a significant scientific breakthrough will they carry on looking. The Manchester schoolboy vanished as he walked from his home in Chorlton-on-Medlock to his grans house in Longsight in 1964. But it was only 22 years later that Brady and Hindley confessed to killing him. They were later taken up to Saddleworth Moor to try and find his body, but despite several police searches of the Moors Keith's remains have never been found - and it looks like they never will be. A last ditch operation was launched last year - with forensic scientists, police dogs and search teams - but to no avail. Police have now released these pictures (see below) of Myra Hindley stood over a victims grave - in the hope of finding Keith's body. Police have issued a statement to us saying they've done all they can - only one man holds the key to where Keith Bennett's body is and that's Ian Brady. |
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| monkalup | Jul 1 2009, 10:05 PM Post #5 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/c...icle6620401.ece July 2, 2009 Desolate moors confounded experts’ search for body of Keith Bennett Moors murder victims, clockwise from top left: John Kilbride, Lesley-Ann Downey, Keith Bennett, Pauline Reade and Edward Evans Russell Jenkins The photograph of Pauline Reade’s body in its shallow grave still has the ability to shock — one shoe pokes accusingly out of the sodden turf. Her killers had completed their work hastily 24 years before. When her searchers found her, she was still clad in her pink party dress and remained well preserved two or three inches below the surface. The desolate majesty of the moors, which first drew Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, is also a landscape that has remained unchanged and untouched for thousands of years. It is well away from hikers’ normal routes and too boggy and uneven to farm. The search team, led by Detective Chief Superintendent Steve Heywood, took advice from forensic archaeologists and anthropologists. They wanted to know whether they were looking for a recognisable body. Mr Heywood said they were assured that the kind of peat bog that is known to delay human decomposition would have acted to preserve Keith Bennett — as it did with Lindow Pete, the Late Iron Age body discovered near Wilmslow, Cheshire, in 1984.The acidic, oxygen-free conditions of the peat bog are credited with preserving the skin, hair and internal organs for 19 centuries. Mr Heywood said that although their search proved fruitless they were able to push the boundaries of knowledge in such a rarefied area. The experts who gave their time on the project have gone on to work in Iraq and Bosnia. |
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| monkalup | Jul 1 2009, 10:07 PM Post #6 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime...im-1727995.html Police give up hunt for Hindley's lost victim For years, officers hoped this picture would help them find Keith Bennett's body. But now the search is over By Jonathan Brown Thursday, 2 July 2009 Even after almost half a century there's a distinct chill in the air of this previously unpublished picture of Myra Hindley taken by Ian Brady at an unknown location. The couple were known to pose near the burial sites of the children they killed. The picture was used by police as part of the search operation More pictures Nearly half a century after she committed her depraved crimes and seven years since she died, images of Myra Hindley continue to exert a unique horror. Two previously unseen photographs, released yesterday by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) to signal that their decades-long hunt for the body of Moors murder victim Keith Bennett is effectively over, show the blonde-haired killer as a young woman posing with a map and compass against the austere backdrop of Saddleworth Moor. It was on this high Pennine ground, where Yorkshire meets Manchester, that she and Ian Brady would escape; first to celebrate their destructive bond and later to sexually abuse, murder and bury their victims. Detectives believed the grainy black and white pictures taken around 1964 held the key to finding the body of the youngster snatched from a Longsight street and taken to a remote spot by Hindley where he was strangled by a waiting Brady, becoming the third of the couple's five known victims. Police have remained convinced that soil conditions on the moors meant the 12-year-old's remains would still be preserved somewhere in the peat and water, and called in geologists and aerial photography experts in an attempt to pinpoint the exact location shown in the two pictures. It was the couple's chilling habit to pose for souvenir photographs beside the last resting places of the children they killed. But yesterday, in a surprise announcement, police revealed the existence of a hitherto secret operation known as Maida that had been ongoing since 2003. Hopes of success had been high after traces of chemicals associated with dead bodies were discovered in the lonely pools around Shiny Brook. But these were dashed when they were found to be naturally occurring. Despite the vast efforts of officers, an array of scientists, psychologists and forensic archaeologists the search was ultimately thwarted by the defiant silence of 71-year-old Brady, who is living out his days in Ashworth high security hospital in Merseyside. In the end all that was unearthed during the operation was a decomposed set of sheep bones. Detective Chief Superintendent Steve Heywood, head of GMP's serious crime division, described yesterday how he walked to work each day in the shadow of the moor. He said he was continually reminded of Keith's disappearance and the police's failure to recover his body to allow his 75-year-old mother Winnie Johnson to bury her son. Officers will now no longer search the high wilderness barring a genuine and substantial confession from Brady or major scientific breakthrough. He said the killer would not be allowed to return to the moor and that police would not respond to the "whims" of a "psychopath". Brady and Hindley, who died in prison aged 60 in 2002, were convicted in 1966 of murdering Lesley Ann Downey, 10, John Kilbride, 12, and Edward Evans, 17. In 1986 both were taken back to the hills to help in the quest for two undiscovered bodies following Brady's confession to killing Keith Bennett and 16-year-old Pauline Reade, who was found in 1987. Brady has refused to co-operate with the latest inquiry, waving investigators away from his hospital bed when they tried to question him. Should he finally reveal his secrets, said Mr Heywood, he would be asked to identify the spot with the use of a 3D virtual representation. "If he [Brady] wants to take the opportunity to do the decent thing then we will listen, but there will be no deals. This is his final opportunity to come forward and give the information. He knows where Keith Bennett is," he said. Police have taken specialist advice not to allow Brady to revisit the scene of his crimes for fear of fuelling his personal gratification and believe the cost of protecting him during such a visit would be too much. They insisted that the case remained open even though the search of the moors had entered a "dormant phase". For Keith Bennett's mother, yesterday was another day in a life which has been destroyed by the disappearance of her son. She again publicly begged Brady to own up before it was too late and allow her to remember Keith's short life with a service at Manchester Cathedral. "I'm pleading with him to get to me or the press or the police and tell me where Keith is. It is the last time it will be done," she said. Breaking down as she caught a glimpse of the moor on television images of the search shown during a specially convened press conference, she said: "It is not fair on me, what I have had to go through. I did not ask him to be picked-up and murdered. "It's a nightmare; it's been a nightmare for the last 45 years how I have carried on – 45 years in limbo. If he's got any decency or respect for anybody it should be me," she said. Ms Johnson's lawyer David Kirwan, who has met Brady twice in an attempt to persuade him to talk, re-iterated his client's plea. "Today I am calling on Ian Brady to declare that he will do what he says he can do. I am ready to meet with him again to help bring to an end the appalling ordeal Keith's mother has endured all these years." |
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| monkalup | Jul 1 2009, 10:09 PM Post #7 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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July 01, 2009 Moors murders The actual search employed a range of tools from simple shovels to the most sophisticated equipment. Dogs specially trained to identify human remains were also brought in. The picture shows police using specially trained sniffer dogs on Saddleworth Moor during the original search in November 1986. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global/ar...ionName=UKCrime |
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| monkalup | Jul 1 2009, 10:10 PM Post #8 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/I...m_Keith_Bennett Brady Banned From Fresh Moors Searches 12:45am UK, Thursday July 02, 2009 Tom Parmenter, North of England correspondent Notorious killer Ian Brady has been banned from ever leading detectives on Saddleworth Moor again in the search for the remains of his victim, Keith Bennett. Moors murderers Myra Hindley, who died in 2002, and Ian Brady The ban follows separate occasions in the 1980s when both Brady and his accomplice Myra Hindley went back onto the bleak moorland with investigators. They either could not or would not lead police to where they had buried their third victim, Keith Bennett. Now detectives say they will never again give him the attention or the thrill of leading another fruitless search on the Moor where they believe the 12-year-old's remains are buried. Keith's family have had to cope with open-ended grief for 45 years. Victim Keith Bennett After Hindley's death in custody in 2002, they are reliant on Brady to find it within himself to give them the answers they crave. The last contact officers had with Brady was in 2003, when they walked into his high-security hospital ward. He simply raised an arm and waved them away. Detective Chief Superintendent Steve Heywood told Sky News that if Brady does ever decide he wants to lead them to Keith Bennett's resting place, then he will do so remotely. He said: "(Brady) will be given the opportunity to walk through the moors virtually. "We are now in the 21st century. We have got 3D modelling which is virtually like being on the moors. "We will take him through that virtual modelling and he can then indicate where the grave is. It his one final opportunity to effectively cleanse his soul." The remote location of Saddleworth Moor means much of the terrain is the same as it has been for thousands of years. It is a vast expanse of rugged ground that straddles northern England, where the high peat content makes the chances of a body still being intact quite high. But without a scientific breakthrough or Brady deciding he wants to talk, Keith Bennett's family may never find his remains or the peace of mind that has eluded them for nearly half a century. |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Jul 1 2009, 10:11 PM Post #9 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england...ter/8127883.stm Moors victim mother's Brady plea Extensive searches have failed to find Keith Bennett's body Moors mother's 45 years in limbo The mother of the last undiscovered victim of the Moors Murderers has begged Ian Brady to reveal where he is after police called off their search. Keith Bennett's mother Winnie Johnson said she was "disappointed" Greater Manchester Police had called off the hunt for his body on Saddleworth Moor. Police said they had "exhausted all the avenues" available to them. The 12-year-old was picked up by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in Longsight in June 1964. He was the third of the Moors Murderers' five child victims. 'Wring his neck' Mrs Johnson said: "I want Keith found before anything happens to me because I want to give him a decent burial. "It's a nightmare, it's been a nightmare for the last 45 years how I have carried on - 45 years in limbo. Winnie Johnson: "It's still not too late" "He knows where he is and won't tell anyone." Appealing directly to the killer she pleaded with him to reveal where her son's body was hidden. "I'm pleading with him to get to me or the press or the police and tell me where Keith is, it is the last time it will be done," she said. "I appreciate what the police have done, they can't do anymore they have got nowhere else to look - it is up to Brady now to do what he can for me to get Keith back. "If I could speak to him now I would wring his bloody neck, but they will not let me see him." Liverpool lawyer David Kirwan, who represents Mrs Johnson, added the family was disappointed the police search had been called off. He appealed to Brady "to bring to an end the appalling ordeal Keith's mother has endured all these years". Det Ch Supt Steve Heywood said: "The Moors Murders have cast a long and dark shadow over the history of our region. "We had all hoped that we would find the body of that little boy who was taken so cruelly away all those years ago and finally allow his family to lay him to rest. "Sadly we have not found his body and we reluctantly have to say that, for now, we have exhausted all of the avenues available to us. "In the end, one man holds the key to where Keith Bennett's body is. "One act of humanity would help Winnie find some peace and allow her to give her son the burial she so desperately wants." Scientific breakthrough A search of Saddleworth Moor in 2008 tried to match up photos taken by Hindley and Brady with aerial shots of the moor in an attempt to find him. The investigation into the boy's disappearance has been classified as dormant by GMP. Ian Brady was convicted of the murders of three children The force says only a major scientific breakthrough or fresh evidence would see the hunt for his body restart. Brady is held at Ashworth High Security Hospital in Merseyside. He was convicted in 1966 of murdering 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey, Edward Evans, 17, and 12-year-old John Kilbride. The judge imposed three concurrent life sentences on Brady, then aged 28, for what he called "three calculated, cruel, cold-blooded murders". Hindley, 23, was sentenced to two concurrent life sentences for the murder of Edward Evans and Lesley Ann Downey and found not guilty of the killing of John Kilbride. In 1987 Hindley and Brady confessed to killing Keith Bennett and Pauline Reade, aged 16. Police managed to locate the remains of Pauline Reade but, despite many weeks of digging, they were unable to find Keith's body. Scientists believed that, due to the nature of the soil on the moors, it would be likely that some of the 12-year-old's remains would still be preserved. The investigation also called on the resources of, among others, clinical psychologists, imagery experts, search advisors, geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, archaeologists and anthropologists. Hindley died in Highpoint Prison, in Suffolk in November 2002, after a long and unsuccessful bid to be released. |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Jul 1 2009, 10:14 PM Post #10 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/...ers-victim.html By GUY PATRICK Published: 01 Jul 2009 THE mother of Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett told of her anguish last night after learning police are to stop their 45-year search for his body. Winnie Johnson, 75, has never lost hope of finding her son, who was 12 when he was killed by monsters Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Tears ... Winnie Johnson mum of murder victim Keith Bennett She said: "I'm devastated the police are unable to carry on looking. When they told me I burst into tears. But I'll never give up." Keith was one of five youngsters killed by Brady and Hindley between 1963 and 1965 and buried on Saddleworth Moor, Greater Manchester. But he is the only one not found. In 2003, Greater Manchester Police launched a new search on the moor but have found nothing. This morning Det Chief Supt Steve Heywood will announce: "We hoped we would find that little boy and finally allow his family to lay him to rest. "Sadly we have not and for now we have exhausted all avenues. "One man holds the key to where Keith Bennett's body is. One act of humanity would help Winnie find some peace." Brady, 71, is in Ashworth high security hospital in Liverpool. Hindley died of a heart attack in jail in 2002 aged 60. |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Jul 1 2009, 10:15 PM Post #11 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/displ..._called_off.php Mother begs Brady to reveal burial site as search of moor is called offPat Hurst and Kim Pilling The mother of a child victim of the notorious Moors murderer Ian Brady has broken down in tears at a press conference and begged him to end her 45-year torment by revealing the location where her son is buried. Keith Bennett became one of the Glasgow-born murderer's five victims when he was abducted at the age of 12 by Brady and his girlfriend Myra Hindley on June 16, 1964. The victim's mother Winnie Johnson broke down during a media conference at Greater Manchester Police, which yesterday announced its search of Saddleworth Moor had been called off and there was no chance of finding Keith's body unless his killer told them where it was. Brady is incarcerated at Ashworth High Security Hospital on Merseyside. advertisement Mrs Johnson, 75, wept as she spoke at the police headquarters, as grainy black-and-white photographs of Hindley and live images of the moor appeared on screens. Appealing to her son's killer, she said: "I'm pleading with him to get to me or the press or the police and tell me where Keith is, it is the last time it will be done. "I appreciate what the police have done. They have done their best. They can't do any more, they have got nowhere else to look. It is up to Brady now to do what he can for me to get Keith back. "I want them getting to Brady and ask him to either write to me or the police or the press to get more information, where Keith is. It is the last time ever. If I could speak to him now I would wring his bloody neck, but they will not let me see him." The mother waved goodbye to Keith, who would now be 57, as she walked him part of the way to his grandmother's house before he was snatched by Brady and Hindley, who died in prison aged 60. She added: "It is not fair, oh dear God, I can't talk now. It is not fair on me, what I have had to go through." Although Mrs Johnson expressed disappointment at the police's decision, she said that she accepted they had done their best. "I was disappointed in one way but can understand what they mean because they have worked bloody hard up there and come to a dead end," said the mother. "I want Keith found before anything happens to me because I want to give him a decent burial. It's a nightmare, it's been a nightmare for the last 45 years how I have carried on - 45 years in limbo. "He knows where he is and won't tell anyone. "If he's got any decency or respect for anybody it should be me. He says he's got rights, and I have got none." Her solicitor, David Kirwan, said: "We have always maintained that the only person who can end Winnie Johnson's 45-year nightmare is Ian Brady. I am calling on Ian Brady to declare that he will do what he says he can do. I am ready to meet with him again to help bring to an end the appalling ordeal Keith's mother has endured all these years." Mr Kirwan has twice met Brady in a bid to pinpoint the whereabouts of the body. Brady and his lover Hindley were convicted in 1966 of murdering Lesley Ann Downey, 10, John Kilbride, 12, and Edward Evans, 17. He admitted 20 years later to murdering Pauline Reade, 16, and 12-year-old Keith Bennett. The killers were then taken separately to the moor bordering Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire. In 1987 the remains of Pauline were found, but the search for Keith proved fruitless. The operation, carried out covertly to avoid the glare of the media, was launched in order to explore every angle so police could be satisfied that everything possible had been done for Keith's mother. Leading scientists believe it is likely some of Keith's body would still be preserved because of the nature of the moorland peat. Soil samples were taken from key areas and examined before searches got under way using spades and shovels, dogs trained to identify human scent and highly sophisticated searching equipment. The search physically stopped in November 2008, and following a review it was decided that the operation would cease unless new information pinpointing the site emerged. |
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| monkalup | Jul 1 2009, 10:18 PM Post #12 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/new...moors_murderer_ Virtual plea to Moors murderer Nicola Dowling July 01, 2009 MOORS murderer Ian Brady could be given a virtual tour of Saddleworth to help him tell police where he buried the body of Keith Bennett. Police now have the technology to allow the killer to take a simulated walk around the area from his bed at Ashworth high security hospital in Merseyside. Moors Murders case picture gallery Detectives believe this is now the only way they will be able to find the schoolboy's body so that his elderly mother Winnie Johnson can give him a proper burial. As revealed in the M.E.N, police have given up the search for the Moors Murder victim - 45 years after he disappeared. They have classified the Moors investigation as 'dormant' and the remains of Keith, the last untraced victim of Brady and Myra Hindley, are unlikely ever to be found. Only a major scientific breakthrough or significant piece of fresh evidence would prompt a new search. But, as he described how police had come to the decision, Det Chief Supt Steve Heywood made a direct appeal to Brady to 'cleanse his soul' and 'do the right thing' to help ease Mrs Johnson's misery. "I am convinced he knows where Keith's body is," he said. Direct appeal "I know he has marked the grave in some secretive way and now is his chance to do the right thing." Sources say there is no way they can justify physically taking Brady up onto the moors as security would have to be immense and there are concerns he could simply use it to re-live the murder for his own gratification. But Mr Heywood said: "It is the 21st century so we now have the 3D images and technology to take him on a virtual tour of every river and gulley in the area. "I am not going to beg, but if he wants to cleanse his soul, then this is his opportunity." The appeal came as Mrs Johnson broke down in tears watching footage of the moors live on television. Tears She had earlier made a direct appeal via the media for Brady to help but asked for a break in the questions to be able to watch the footage at a police station overlooking the moors in Ashton. Despite maintaining her composure as she told journalists how she longed to give her son a private burial and a service at Manchester Cathedral, the 75-year-old broke down on seeing the moorland, gasping: "I can't hold it in any longer." As reported online earlier, detectives said they had been convinced they were close to finding the little boy's body last year when traces of chemicals linked to dead bodies were found in the peat and water over a 72,000 square metre area near to where a photograph of Hindley was taken. But their hopes were dashed when it was revealed the chemicals in land near an area called Shiny Brook had occurred naturally in the unique moorland environment. Resolution The search ended in November and after assessing their findings police decided the case would have to be put into a 'dormant phase'. Mr Heywood added: "I walk into my office every morning and the view I have is of Saddleworth Moor, so every morning I am reminded that Keith is out there. I never say never. Hopefully one day there will be some resolution to this." Keith was 12 when he disappeared on June 16, 1964. He had been on his way from his home in Chorlton-on-Medlock, to his grandmother's house in Longsight. Hindley and Brady went up on the moors with police in the 1980s in a bid to try to find his body and that of Pauline Reade. Police found Pauline's body but were unable to locate Keith's. Scientists believe that because of the chemical make-up of the peat, his body is likely to be well preserved if and when it is finally found. |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Jul 1 2009, 10:21 PM Post #13 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Moors murderer Brady: I'm super-rational Updated on 01 July 2009 By Nick Martin On the day Greater Manchester Police announce they have ended their search for the remains of moors murder victim Keith Bennett, Channel 4 News Online publishes a recent letter from Ian Brady to the programme. In a letter sent in February of this year to Channel 4 News, moors murderer Ian Brady tells of his fight to die. Brady also makes claims that past and recent independent medical reports pronounce him as "not only rational but super-rational" and "in the top 5% of the UK population". Ian Brady has corresponded with Channel 4 News north of England correspondent Nick Martin several times over the last few years. His letters are passed on via his solicitors and detail his treatment at Ashworth hospital in Liverpool and in particular his hunger strike. Nick Martin is just one of a handful of authors and journalists Mr Brady corresponds with. from Ian Stewart Brady Ashworth hospital in Liverpool "Naturally I would agree to any media proposed interview and do so. But, since commencement of this force-fed by nasal tube hunger strike now in its eighth year, this politically expedient Ashworth regime, twice condemned to closure by two judicially chaired public inquiries comprised of medical experts, has kept me isolated even from writers and authors I have corresponded with for years. "This axiomatically, as Ashworth boasts a regressive penal regime fraudulently overmanned to several times the per capita requirement of even maximum security prisons, it is understandably adverse to any public scrutiny or accountability which might disclose that the consequent annual cost of keeping even a tramp in Ashworth is over £320,000. "This desire to avoid public accountability resulted in Ashworth taking exorbitant multiple court actions over a period of two years to oppose my previously granted public MHRT [mental health review tribunal] and for the same self serving purpose is now opposing my second application for same. "While Ashworth relies upon psychiatric smear and innuendo to discredit all valid complaints and charges, past and recent independent medical reports pronounce me as 'not only rational but super-rational' and 'in the top 5% of the UK population.'" yours sincerely, I s Brady http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/m...ational/3243857 |
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| monkalup | Jul 1 2009, 10:24 PM Post #14 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Moors murders The Moors murders have been of interest to the press since the story first broke. This is the front page of The Times on May 7, 1966, with the headline "Life sentences on couple in Moors case" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global/ar...ionName=UKCrime |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Jul 1 2009, 10:27 PM Post #15 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8129131.stm What does Ian Brady know? Now aged 71, child killer Brady says all he wants to do is die As police call off the search for the body of the only undiscovered Moors victim, a number of questions remain, writes journalist Peter Gould, who has corresponded with killer Ian Brady for 25 years. Does Brady know where Keith Bennett's body is buried, could he lead police to the spot or is it a secret he will take to his own grave? The lawyer acting for the boy's family has talked to Brady, who told him he could still pinpoint the grave, even after more than 40 years. But with the Moors murderer withdrawing his co-operation with the police, the answer remains locked inside his head. Last secret It is a story I have reported on many times. Ian Brady began writing to me 25 years ago, before the police returned to the moors in the hope of finding two missing children, 12-year-old Keith and Pauline Reade, who was 16. I remember going with their mothers on a visit to Saddleworth Moor in the 1980s. Both were desperate to recover their lost children, and give them a proper burial. I just want my son found, says Keith Bennett's mother Winnie Johnson The police took Brady and his accomplice Myra Hindley back to the moors separately, using photographs taken by the couple to try to locate burial sites. After weeks of digging, the police found Pauline's remains. For her family, there was at least the satisfaction of a funeral. For Keith's mother, Winnie Johnson, there has been no such relief, and no closure. Over the years, she has been back to Saddleworth many times, with flowers and memories. She told me she had managed to find some peace on the windswept moors, close to Keith. For my part, I urged Brady to do all he could to help the police find Keith, telling him about my meetings with the families of his victims. I knew the officer leading the investigation and he did nothing to hinder the correspondence. CHILD KILLER IAN BRADY Convicted in 1966 of murdering Lesley Ann Downey, 10, Edward Evans, 17, and John Kilbride, 12 Judge imposed three concurrent life sentences on the 28-year-old Killer transferred to Ashworth Hospital in 1985 where he later confessed to murdering Pauline Reade, 16, and Keith Bennett, 12 Moors victim mother's Brady plea Moors mother in '45-year limbo' At the time, I thought Brady was doing his best to find the missing children, but others believed he was enjoying being back in the media spotlight, in control and manipulating the authorities. In the end, the search for Keith had to be called off. The police had a good idea that Brady had buried the body at a spot called Shiny Brook, but it is a featureless landscape, and more than 20 years had elapsed since the murders. A more recent search, using the latest scientific techniques, has also drawn a blank. So what chance is there now of finding Keith, 45 years after he was abducted and murdered by Brady and Hindley? In the past, Brady gave me the impression he would have been prepared to return to the moors to try again. But he has accused the police of bungling the original search, and when officers from Greater Manchester attempted to "engage" with him again in 2003, he refused to see them. Searches of Saddleworth Moor using the latest techniques drew a blank Brady's relationship with the authorities has always been difficult, and he has made repeated complaints about his treatment in Ashworth Hospital, where he has been a patient for many years. In his letters, he is articulate and appears rational. He seems to have a good recall of events many years in the past. He was angry when Hindley sought to distance herself from the killings, in a vain attempt to win parole. He accepted long ago that he would never be released. Now, at the age of 71, he says all he wants to do is die. Winnie Johnson will be 76 in a few weeks, but she still clings to the hope that Brady will give up his last secret before it is too late. Ever since she first gazed out over the moors, all those years ago, her plea has been the same: "I just want Keith found." |
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| monkalup | Jul 1 2009, 10:27 PM Post #16 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Mother begs Moors Murderer for info 12 hours ago Heartbroken Winnie Johnson has broken down in tears as she begged Moors murderer Ian Brady to reveal to her the 45-year secret of where her son is buried. The frail pensioner, 75, pleaded with the five-times child killer to help find Keith Bennett's grave on Saddleworth Moor after police announced they had called off the search and could do no more unless Brady revealed the location. Keith, then aged just 12, was abducted and killed by Brady and Myra Hindley on June 16 1964 in Manchester, while on his way to his grandmother's house. Mrs Johnson walked him part of the way and waved him goodbye - and never saw him again. Appealing directly to the killer, Mrs Johnson said: "I'm pleading with him to get to me or the press or the police and tell me where Keith is, it is the last time it will be done. "I appreciate what the police have done, they have done a lot of work in the last three to four years... they have done their best, they can't do anymore they have got nowhere else to look - it is up to Brady now to do what he can for me to get Keith back. "I want them getting to Brady and ask him to either write to me or the police or the press to get more information, where Keith is. It is the last time ever. If I could speak to him now I would wring his bloody neck, but they will not let me see him." Mrs Johnson broke down in tears after grainy black and white photos of Hindley, then live pictures of Saddleworth Moor flashed up on TV screens where she was speaking at the police HQ in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester. "It is not fair, oh dear God, I can't talk now. It is not fair on me, what I have had to go through," she said. "I did not ask him to be picked up and murdered." Brady is being held in Ashworth High Security Hospital on Merseyside. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/a...ea2fd355FbvAqlw |
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| monkalup | Jul 1 2009, 10:29 PM Post #17 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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01 July 2009 Final Moors Murder Victim Search Abandoned Police have abandoned the search for the last remaining victim of Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Twelve-year-old Keith Bennett - the third victim of Brady and Hindley - went missing in June 1964 and police have been searching for his body ever since. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said the searches based on the words and photographs of the notorious pair, known as the Moors Murderers, had failed to produce results. A search of Saddleworth Moor in 2008 attempted to match up photos by Brady and Hindley with aerial shots of the moor to try and find him. The 12-year-old was one of five children believed to have been murdered by the pair between 1963 and 1965 and buried in the moor. http://www.4ni.co.uk/northern_ireland_news.asp?id=95991 |
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| monkalup | Jan 23 2010, 11:22 AM Post #18 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/new...m_keith_bennett Memorial service for Moors Murderers' vicitm Keith Bennett January 22, 2010 THE MOTHER of the 'lost' victim of Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley has spoken of her joy after he was finally granted a memorial service - 46 years after his death. Keith Bennett was 12 in 1964 when Hindley and Brady abducted him and murdered him on Saddleworth Moor, in Greater Manchester. He's since known as 'The Lost Boy' - the only Moors victim never to be found, and without a body has never had an inquest or a funeral. Now Keith has been granted a memorial service on Friday 5th March at Manchester Cathedral so his family can at last say a proper goodbye. The Bishop of Manchester, Right Rev Nigel McCulloch will oversee the service for victim's relatives, family, friends and the public with readings and hymns. Mum Winnie Johnson, 75, wept at news that her 46 year wait to say goodbye to Keith was finally coming to an end. She said: “All these years since Brady and Hindley took my Keith away I have never been able to properly say goodbye. Funeral “The only funeral I have read about is Hindley's when she died - Keith has been left forgotten. “Even the police last year gave up the search for his body, meaning we're having to carry on looking for his body ourselves. “This service is what I have hoped for, although I still pray for the day we can find him and give him a decent, Christian burial. “It is so hard to grieve without him found yet for 46 years I have dreamed of a funeral that celebrates his life, however short it was. “Now thanks to the bishop, and my priest Rev Gomersall, this is finally going to happen. “Hindley has already gone but Brady is alive in his cell and I hope he hears about this. “Whatever he did to Keith will not stop us celebrating what a wonderful boy he was.” Winnie asked the vicar of her C of E church, St John Chrysostom, in Victoria Park, Manchester, for help in getting a service. Rev Ian Gomersall said: “Winnie's determination to give her son a final resting place has been an inspiration. Support “Winnie now feels it is appropriate to hold a public memorial service for Keith and she does so with the prayers and support of her family, her church and her friends.” A spokesman for the Bishop of Manchester said: “The public memorial service, at which the Bishop of Manchester will preach, is to be held at the Cathedral on Friday 5th March at 11am. “It will be an opportunity for different sections of the community to remember this tragic event. “Winnie also hopes to be able to say 'thank you' to those who have helped look for Keith's remains, especially the Police.” Keith was abducted on the way to his gran's on June 16, 1964, and killed by Brady and lover Myra Hindley on Saddleworth Moor, Greater Manchester. The pair - who also murdered Lesley Ann Downey, ten, John Kilbride, 12, Pauline Reade, 16, and Edward Evans, 17 - were jailed for life two years later. After the first three bodies had been found, Brady - who lived in Hattersley - was taken back to Saddleworth in 1987 to help police find Pauline's remains. Hindley died in November 2002, aged 60. Now Winnie has launched the Keith Bennett Trust to raise funds for their own search of the moors after Greater Manchester Police declared in July they had stopped their 45-year search. For details of the Trust and how you can help, see www.searchingforkeith.com . |
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| monkalup | Mar 27 2010, 07:25 PM Post #19 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england...ter/8591178.stm Moors Murders: Donations fund search for Keith Bennett Keith Bennett Keith Bennett's body has never been found on Saddleworth Moor A privately-funded search for the body of Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett has begun in the Pennine hills near Manchester. The 12-year-old vanished from his home in Longsight, Manchester, in 1964. He was one of five children abducted and murdered by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Police abandoned the search for Keith's body last year, saying it would resume only if new information came to light. Donations of money from hundreds of people have funded the search. Keith's mother Winnie Johnson, 76, has not been able to hold a funeral for her son as his body has never been found. The BBC's North of England correspondent Danny Savage said the privately-funded search, carried out by volunteers from a Welsh search and rescue team, offered Mrs Johnson new hope that her son's grave might be located. Myra Hindley and Ian Brady Hindley and Brady confessed in 1987 to killing Keith "This is probably her last hope of locating her son's body," he said. "With Myra Hindley already dead, she told me she wasn't going to be defeated by what Ian Brady did. "But finding Keith Bennett's body in this vast area will be difficult. "The police and advanced technology have been defeated for years but Keith Bennett's mother is clinging to the hope that this search will deliver." Keith was snatched as he walked to his grandmother's house in Longsight. He was the third of the Moors Murderers' five child victims. Pauline Reade, 16, disappeared on her way to a disco on 12 July 1963, and John Kilbride, 12, was snatched in November of that year. Lesley Ann Downey, 10, was lured away from a funfair on Boxing Day 1964 and Edward Evans, 17, was killed in October 1965. Brady and Hindley confessed in 1987 to killing Keith. Hindley died in jail in November 2002, aged 60. Brady has spent the past 25 years at the high-security Ashworth Hospital in Merseyside |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 3 2010, 01:50 PM Post #20 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/29/m...saddleworth-dig Moors murders: new search for body of Keith BennettMountain rescue team combs Saddleworth Moor with sniffer dogs for only victim whose remains have not been found (20)Tweet this (14)Helen Carter guardian.co.uk, Monday 29 March 2010 16.55 BST Article history Keith Bennett, who was killed by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. Photograph: PA Volunteers from a mountain rescue team are searching Saddleworth Moor near Oldham for the remains of Keith Bennett, a victim of the Moors murders in the 1960s. The team is using sniffer dogs to search for the 12-year-old's body. They have searched from the main Greenfield to Huddersfield road, close to where Ian Brady and Myra Hindley buried Pauline Reade's body. The unpaid volunteers are from the Ogwen Valley mountain rescue team in north Wales and are led by David Jones, who said they could spend months or years searching the area. Keith's mother, Winnie Johnson, 76, was at the search site last week as the volunteers began the operation. "Hopefully she'll have closure in the not so far future," Jones said. "I've told her I'm not promising anything and we're just going to do what we can." His team have identified 19 areas to be searched. He said they had marked off grids of land and tested the soil with metal probes before sending the sniffer dogs in. An appeal has been set up to buy specialist search equipment after Greater Manchester police last year called off their search for Keith's remains. The boy disappeared on the way to visit his grandmother in Longsight, Manchester, in 1964. He was one of five children abducted and murdered by Brady and Hindley and the only one whose remains have not been found. His mother attended a memorial service at Manchester Cathedral this month. Hindley died in jail in November 2002, aged 60. Brady, now 72, is in the high-security Ashworth hospital in Merseyside. In 1987 the pair admitted killing Keith Bennett and Pauline Reade. Both were taken to the moors to help police find the remains but they only found Pauline Reade. Johnson welcomed the search. "He [Brady) knows where he is. He admitted it and that's how I knew I would never find him alive again. "I want the closure, yes, and I want him buried before anything happens to me. But I also want him buried knowing Brady's alive when they do it, because it's getting on his goat now. "He knows where he is but he doesn't want him found." Hundreds of people have donated money to a fund set up to finance the search, but as yet the money has not been transferred to the charity team. Jones said: "We, as a registered charity, are giving our time and expenses for nothing but obviously we can only stretch that so far. The more we get from the appeal, the more manpower we can put on the sites and the longer we can stay." |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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