Closing the case on Britain's Notorious Moors Murders?

Have Manchester police found the remains of a 12-year-old boy missing for 58 years? It might be the final chapter in a case about which I once considered writing a book.

Murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

British police may have found the remains of Keith Bennet, a 12-year-old victim — missing since 1964 — of the infamous British child killers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. They were called the Moors Murders after two of their young victims were discovered in shallow graves in the Saddleworth Moor, a wild area of high land. It is where police located a skull that might belong to Bennett. [UPDATE October 7, 2022: Police announced that they ended their search after failing to find any human remains]

My wife, author Trisha Posner, had introduced me to the story of the Moors Murders. Trisha grew up in London and was only 15 when the trial fixated the country in 1966. Trisha, and many of her fellow Brits, were infuriated when Brady and Hindley refused to disclose where they had buried all their victims. Over the years, reporters and amateur sleuths raised the possibility that there were more murders that the police had failed to link to the couple. Trisha…