The Moors Murders Code

The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around what is now Greater Manchester, England. The victims were five children aged between 10 and 17—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans. The murders are so named because two of the victims were discovered in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor. Pauline Reade's body was found there in 1987, twenty years after their conviction making it the third body to be found in the Moors. This documentary takes a look at letters Myra Hindley wrote while imprisoned and the photographs in her possession after her death in 2002, to see if they hold any keys to where Keith Bennett's body is buried. It also reveals detectives very recently employed code-breakers to uncover hidden messages Brady and Hindley sent to each other in poems and letters. Keith Bennett is the only victim whose body remains undiscovered.