Moors story to feature chilling unseen footage

THE Moors murders feature in a chilling new documentary on ITV on Thursday to mark the 50th anniversary of their crimes.

“Brady and Hindley: Possession” will feature previously unseen interviews and images. Using first-hand accounts and photographs, the documentary will offer new insights into the horrific crimes committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. The film will examine how the impact of the murders is still felt today.

A recording of Hindley features in the programme, in which she describes the murder that led to her capture and trial.

The film will also reveal how all the moorland burial sites could have been marked with photographs of Hindley or Brady posing by the graves.

An interview with a child taken to Saddleworth Moor by the pair will also be broadcast for the first time. Carol Waterhouse describes how she and her brother were taken for a picnic and tricked into posing in the area where Keith Bennett is believed to be buried.

Others interviewed include leading forensic archaeologist Professor John Hunter and Terry Kilbride, the brother of Moors murder victim John, as well as those who worked on the case.

Brady and Hindley were sentenced to life in prison in 1966 for the murders of Lesley Ann Downey (10), John Kilbride (12) and Edward Evans (17).

They later also confessed to the murders of Keith Bennett (12) and Pauline Reade (16).