The "Swamp Murder" in the 1960s in the UK, which shocked the whole world. A man named Ian Brady and his girlfriend Myra Hindley tortured and killed five children and teenagers (the oldest was 17 years old and the youngest was 10 years old) in today's Greater Manchester District, England. They buried the victim's body in the deserted Shadwoods swamp, which is also the origin of the case, and the couple is also called the "Swamp Killer".
After Brady and Hindley were executed, the bodies of the four victims were found one after another, but the fifth victim, Keith Bennett, the boy who died at the age of 12, was not found yet.
According to British newspapers on September 30 local time, after "disappeared" for 58 years, Bennett was finally found .
reported that a skull was found in the Shadwoods swamp, believed to be the skull of a child about 12 years old, and now detectives are continuing to dig in hopes of finding the complete remains.
Winnie Johnson is the mother of boy Bennett, who has never given up looking for her son.
Unfortunately, this strong mother was unable to wait for good news in the end. She died of cancer in 2012. Johnson learned in 2011 that she would die soon, and she made a DVD and appealed again, asking the murderer Brady to reveal the location of his son's body and said it was her "last chance", but she received no response.
This is one of the few photos of Bennett during his lifetime. He took a photo with his two younger brothers standing at the doorstep of his home. His home lives in a red brick terrace house on Eston Street, Manchester.
Bennett disappeared on the fourth day after his 12th birthday. It is reported that he was lured into a van by Brady and Hindley and "taken away like a lamb." He was eventually strangled after a brutal assault, but unlike other victims, Brady refused to reveal where Bennett was buried.
and finally found Bennett's place, experienced three other victims, 16-year-old Pauline Reed, 12-year-old John Kilbride and 10-year-old Leslie Ann Downey, only a few hundred yards away.
17-year-old Edward Evans was found dead in a house on Heidwardel Brook Avenue in Manchester, where Brady and Hindley's homes were hacked to death by an axe.
It is reported that after Brady and his girlfriend were executed, the search for Bennett began. Greater Manchester police used almost all the power they could use. They found geologists, geophysicists, archaeologists and anthropologists to help them find them. Even an American satellite was used. In addition, the police also hired cryptologists to try to crack the possible passwords in Brady and Hindley's letters, but found nothing.
and this time, an amateur detective named Russell Edwards made great contributions to . According to Greater Manchester Police Representative Martin Bottonley, Edwards provided them with clues, "After direct contact with the author, we were told that he had found human remains that he believed could be in a remote area of the swamp, and he agreed to meet with officials yesterday afternoon to elaborate on his discovery".
Edwards, 56, first arrived at Shadwoods swamp at the age of 21, when he was moved by an article calling for the search for Pauline Reed, a victim of the "Swamp Murder".
Edwards' most famous detective achievement is his research on " Jack the Ripper ". 8 years ago he published a book that determined that Aaron Kosminsky, born in Polish , is the so-called Jack the Ripper. And after that, Edwards began to work on finding Bennett, "an unsolved case that made me obsessed for life."
On the other hand, Brady and Hindley, who were cruel murderers, survived for many years after being arrested and sentenced to for life in prison for .They were arrested in 1966, and just the previous year, England had just abolished the death penalty.
Hindley spent 36 years in prison and died in 2002. Brady tried to commit suicide many times after being arrested, but failed. Later, he suffered from incurable cancer and severe emphysema. He eventually died in a mental hospital in 2017 at the age of 79. To some extent, it was also considered that evil will be retribution.
