October 22, 1965 -
Greenfield, England: Searchers scour the moors looking for graves
after reports
were received by police of bodies buried in the area. The body of a
young girl was recovered that
day and police have charged a 27-year-old stock clerk, Ian Brady,
and a shorthand typist,
Myra Hindley, 23, with the murder.
The search
17 October 1965: Police search Saddleworth Moor for the bodies of
children killed by Ian
Brady and Myra Hindley
(Picture:
David Thorpe / Associated Newspapers / Rex Features)
Police in 1965
searching for further evidence near Greenfield, England, where
murder
victim Lesley
Downey was found.
Police dig at one of the spots indicated by specially trained
sniffer dogs,
on Saddleworth Moor, near Oldham.
Heavily swathed in plastic sheeting, human remains are carried from
the screened grave
on Saddleworth Moor,
near Ashton-under-Lyne.
A Police party digging on the Saddleworth Moors in Yorkshire looking
for moorland graves.
Pictured to the right is six canes to mark the spot where the body
of ten-year old Lesley
Ann Downey was
found in a shallow grave,
victim of the Moors Murderers Ian Brady
and Myra Hindley.
Manchester police stopped active searches for Keith
Bennett's remains in 2009.
Members of the Global Rescue Services and International Rescue
Training Centre teams, dig holes in a
marked out area for sniffer
dogs to search an area of Saddleworth Moor in Saddleworth during
privately
funded search has begun for the body of Keith Bennett, the
12-year-old boy killed by Moors Murderers
Ian Brady and Myra
Hindley.
Picture date: Sunday, March 26, 2010.
(Photo credit should read: Dave Thompson/PA Wire)
Mrs Winifred Johnson, the mother of Moors murder victim Keith
Bennett, on Saddleworth
Moor with
Det Chief Supt Peter Topping, the
man leading the hunt for her son's body.
1987: Myra Hindley returns to the moors to help police find the
remains of the missing victims;
only Pauline's body was found.
(Picture:
Rex Features)
Ian Brady on Saddleworth Moor with Detective Chief Superintendent
Peter Topping of Greater
Manchester Police GMP, who was in charge of
reopened investigation.
