UK UK - Keith Bennett, 12, Longsight, Manchester, 16 June 1964

[johnhall]

heres a snippet of how brady liked word games and puzzles. the doodle was found in a notebook in the house. it was what was used to link him to john kilbride as johns name is in the list of names. but i worked on the rest and discovered the word game he was doodling. i havnt finished it yet as some things could be personal to brady and not general knowledge.it doesnt help find keith it just more of an oddity that came up.intersting that the 2 portraits are from a film called hell is a city about a gangster who kills a woman and buries her on the moors above manchester the burial scenes were filmed just round the corner of the moors where the children were and are buried. might help if there looking at bradys stuff that he does do doodles linked with the murders. as a help the burial site of john is 12 miles out from their home

 

[ctaylor]

There was a bit of promotion recently when an ITV drama on the Moors Murders suddenly was top of the Netflix charts about 20 years after it aired . I saw it originally years ago

Netflix viewers rush to watch ITV's Manchester-set true crime drama as it jumps to number 2 in streamer's chart

Great actors involved but it did show Myra's sister in a good light compared to a real life programme from the 1970s where she seems to defend Myra and put Ann West in a bad light.

They have her in a wig and dark lighting to conceal her here on live TV sort of defending Myra which a bit different to the drama version

RIP Ann West. She fought hard as well as dealing with that Lord Longford, who is also on that link.

I remember she did interviews and she said Lord Longford asked if she was a Catholic. She said yes. He said "if you do not forgive Myra Hindley, you will never see your daughter in heaven". Paraphrasing, she said "That's fine Lord Longford, I will never forgive her but thats fine, I will go to hell and I'll see you down there too because of hell you have put me though, and I know God will forgive me".

She says it on that show from the 1970s above but I remember Ann West always said down the years if Myra Hindley ever got out, she would kill her herself and do the time and she meant it. Such a shame for Winnie, Keith's mum, that she never got a funeral for him before she died.