its funny when i looked at this problem and read the newspaper stories and the "books" about it and got the same picture of events and the locations from them all..so the moors not been far away i went for a look,i know the moors vaguely anyway..armed with the mental picture the actual location didnt really match what id expected...so i asked keiths brother and he said the moors just the same now as it was then..mmm i thought..can see what rough plan brady was working too but by todays moor it seemed awkward i think is the best description..i have no doubt that ian wanted his victims in that area,it reminded him of an area in scotland he loved. in a couple of photographs he did with his mother in their house,on the wall is a painting that is almost the view from the area where he buried the known victims looking across the reservoir only its before he left home!..so anyway could see a method but like i say it was out of sync with wat i saw..then on the telly was a cold case program and the detective mentioned he always worked wherever possible back in the time it happened as in photos ect from the time so u can see what was what..good idea..so i trogged the net looking for news real and photos from the time..of course when u finally find out what to type in as a search and where u find them,well some of them...what a difference..what id been told was rubbish,loads of things are different..even the second investigation in the late 80`s will have had trouble relating to the original scenario..remember when the first investigation took place they were looking only for 2 known bodies,lessly and john kilbride,they suspected up to 8 missing but no evidence at all.ill put the first one on showing the 1965 intial search area after ians arrest and a current view from google earth.
pauline reade was found to the top as directed by the arrow,another 50 yards on the moor,johns location is marked..lessly anne was burred a very similar distance from the road just further up the moor 200 yards...u see one thing thats misleading in all the books,documentaries is the area is not big that they are in.they all talk of the vast expanse of the moor but the 3 known are in one area.
now the logistics of the plan are falling into place...the scar u see on the land above the road is the newly laid gas pipeline across the moor..when he burred the first this pipeline was still being laid across the moor and for the second there was still work in the area but that didnt stop him using the area,in fact i think he used it as a cover..i have found some taken at the same time as the first search showing the area known as hollin brown knoll where Lesley was found and it suddenly explains a thing or two..ive probably said it before but with Lesley he went out of his way to bury her in that area.he drove up having waited a day with a dead body in the bad weather with several inches of snow down on the moor.theres a dozen+ easier places he could have used but he risked it to put her there...i have him with keith to hollin brown knoll,im sure that was the intended site,it would match the method,but then what happened..the photo of myra squat in the unknown location is the fly in the ointment..i know he will have had a back up plan if a site couldnt be used and probably a back up for that,he planned like a mad man.The obvious one is that for some reason he couldnt use hollin brown knoll and it was a serious enough reason he had to leave the area completely and where he went is where the photo is..im sure the true story of the police officer pulling up is part of this,that would be enough where u leave the area not just go a few miles down the road.the other scenario is he did indeed bury keith on hollinbrown knoll,police man or not but not where he first planned but off to one side then when he took the body of Lesley up there the only accessible location,due to the snow was hollin brown knoll.
im sure of one thing..if he isnt in the local where myra is squat then hes on hollin brown knoll..what i will do is write each scenario out and put the evidence,logistics with each....