Police resume search for Keith Bennett's remains - BBC documentary

[Gray]

In the article it mentions the guy doing the searching had covered this area previously, so it doesn’t sound like it was very obviously different. It seems it was just a certain colour of vegetation that caught his eye, maybe only someone experienced with searching this type of land would notice. He had been at it a while, hopefully it’s the end.

Walked up there several times round the reservoirs. It is very bleak and desolate.

 

[give it to gordon]

"grave sized" patch of ground where the vegetation was notably different to the surrounding area, which is apparently how this guy found the burial site.

I think It's something to do with the very dry summer we have had and lack of rain

Lidar might have used as well

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

So grim this, but at least some closure for the family.

After reading this thread I’ve ended up down a rabbit hole of reading about Manchester gang violence. Bloody hell, interesting stuff. Tragedy for the poor little lad but had no idea Winny the mum was a bit of a bruiser and her stepson was a gang member etc.

All way before my time this.

 

[ancoats]

Yes I did wonder if the dry summer weather could have played a part, but I still think after 60 years I would have expected the vegetation to have recovered sufficiently enough to be indistinguishable from the surrounding vegetation regardless of the weather conditions.

( I have worked on moorland regeneration projects so I have some experience of observing how the vegetation can regenerate from bare peat to nursery species such as cotton grass before a mixture shrubby plants such as Heather and Bilberry become established)

Yes both the weather and the peat will have played a part, but very lucky if it's human and the young boy, and we may have an ending to it all and give the family an ending

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

From what I have read, the body found is in the same spot that the police took Brady back in the 1980s
the sicko knew and must have got some sort of kick going back knowing he was laughing at the police

Conversely, if it is the same spot, didn’t Brady led them to the burial site?

 

[Manc in London]

Winnie used to live round the corner from us in Fallowfield at one stage, was so sad seeing her walking around in her old age.

Bless her. So sad she went through so much pain and suffering.

 

[standupifyouhatemanu]

I’m a similar age to what Keith would have been now, I have a picture of myself that is uncannily like his poster. We lived in the same area too, there but for the grace of God. Praying it’s Keith so he can be with his Mum again.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Conversely, if it is the same spot, didn’t Brady led them to the burial site?

Whilst I hope that this is closure for Keith's remaining family, the things I have read about Brady over the years (admittedly not loads) would lead me suggest he would probably enjoy this from beyond the grave, should he have taken the police there all those years ago.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Whilst I hope that this is closure for Keith's remaining family, the things I have read about Brady over the years (admittedly not loads) would lead me suggest he would probably enjoy this from beyond the grave, should he have taken the police there all those years ago.

He was about as evil as it’s possible for a human being to be. An utterly malign individual.

Hope this provides some closure for the family that remains.

 

[jimharri]

He was about as evil as it’s possible for a human being to be. An utterly malign individual.

Hope this provides some closure for the family that remains.

I heard he was a svengali-type figure to Brady. She was supposed to be in awe of him.

And before anyone has a pop, I'm in no way whatsoever excusing or minimising her role in the murder of the innocents. As I said in an earlier post, they should both have been strung up.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I heard he was a svengali-type figure to Brady. She was supposed to be in awe of him.

Most evil people are highly manipulative.

 

[jimharri]

Most evil people are highly manipulative.

Indeed.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Whilst I hope that this is closure for Keith's remaining family, the things I have read about Brady over the years (admittedly not loads) would lead me suggest he would probably enjoy this from beyond the grave, should he have taken the police there all those years ago.

I wasn’t trying to give him any credit. I think you’re exactly right.

If he did lead police to where he was buried, it’s a shame that they didn’t ask why he had gone there.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

I wasn’t trying to give him any credit. I think you’re exactly right.

If he did lead police to where he was buried, it’s a shame that they didn’t ask why he had gone there.

Just to clarify that I never thought this of you either :)

 

[ancoats]

Conversely, if it is the same spot, didn’t Brady led them to the burial site?

He knew what he was doing, that part of the moors is a very big area, it could have been as easy saying go left knowing going right was the area,

Brady was getting a kick out of knowing he was taking the piss out of the police

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

He knew what he was doing, that part of the moors is a very big area, it could have been as easy saying go left knowing going right was the area,

Brady was getting a kick out of knowing he was taking the piss out of the police

Only he will know for sure. He probably did, though.

If there was an obvious “grave sized” change in habitat in 2022, surely there was one when they went there?

 

[ancoats]

I wasn’t trying to give him any credit. I think you’re exactly right.

If he did lead police to where he was buried, it’s a shame that they didn’t ask why he had gone there.

I read somewhere that Brady/Hindley could have done loads more killings and young adults going missing at that time, the police never questioned them and a story of them going to nightclubs and picking up young people was known at the time by locals,

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I read somewhere that Brady/Hindley could have done loads more killings and young adults going missing at that time, the police never questioned them and a story of them going to nightclubs and picking up young people was known at the time by locals,

There’s no doubt they were subhuman, evil scum.

 

[ancoats]

Only he will know for sure. He probably did, though.

If there was an obvious “grave sized” change in habitat in 2022, surely there was one when they went there?

Not so ?

The weather over the past 20 years have changed the moors with warmer summers and very dry winters. so the water table shrinks and the top part of the peat forms a crust and changes the colours

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Not so ?

The weather over the past 20 years have changed the moors with warmer summers and very dry winters. so the water table shrinks and the top part of the peat forms a crust and changes the colours

Maybe so, but it also could have been missed. It’s unprovable either way.