Perhaps it was as well., From a forensic point of view she was in remarkable shape. As you turn onto the Wessenden track you will see Butterley Spillway to your right. Later, the hunt for the bodies shifted to the Wessenden Moors at Meltham. The most recent attempt by police to discover his remains was called off last summer. Today we remember how the Examiner reported the chilling murders carried out by the Yorkshire Ripper. The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965 To mark the Huddersfield Examiner reaching the 50,000 edition milestone on Wednesday 9 August we are running a series of nostalgia features. In a separate piece headlined The man with the right to smile we pictured a smiling George Oldfield, the Grange Moor detective who had worked 16-hour days on the Ripper inquiry. Ian Brady was born Ian Stewart in Glasgow on January 2 1938, the illegitimate son of a waitress. Yet below, ironically, she had been protected by the peat that kept out the weather, the heat, the cold, the scavenging animals and, most importantly, the bacteria. He wrote dozens of letters to Hindley and Brady in a bid to extract clues, and in 1998 took the unnerving step of meeting Hindley twice in prison. The Manchester Evening News understands the location which is being combed by police will be guarded by officers throughout the night. Cookie Notice The victims' The murders, named after the Yorkshire Moors where the victims' bodies were buried, stuck fast to the public consciousness. hbbd```b``~"@V1d Find out how to keep safe throughout your visits. I had it from the bottle. "We have always said that GMP would act on any significant information which may lead to the recovery of Keith and reunite him with his family. 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This is in spite of the pathologists conclusion that Lesley was not strangled, but even upon hearing that re-iterated to him Brady stuck by his version of events. In November 2002, at the age of 60, Hindley suffered a heart attack at Highpoint Prison in Suffolk and was taken to West Suffolk Hospital at Bury St Edmunds where she then developed a chest infection and died two weeks later. Your email address will not be published. People are free to share their memories and thoughts about the case as they wish. Myra Hindley playing with her dog Puppet on/near Saddleworth Moor, c )(&xJ^yJ +RWGsHFZM:EziD>ik~3HsiSK On the eight-mile trail, you'll cross through Marsden village, take in beautiful views of the valley and discover four reservoirs. They put the soil on the back garden. 307 0 obj <> endobj The right arm was beneath the body; the hand being near the right knee. On two occasions I went for walks on the moor with Ian and Myra. Required fields are marked *, Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. Similar roadblocks were erected on the A635 on the Lancashire side of the moor. For further details, see section marked Access. A few more (albeit unsubstantial) theories, providing that she was killed in the bedroom: Lesley could have been smothered with the pillow or mattress on the bed, or she could have been smothered or suffocated manually, or by either the quilt/blanket, a bed sheet, a pillowcase or the scarf and handkerchief that were used to gag her prior to her death.