Ian Brady has taken the secret of where victim Keith Bennett's body is buried to his grave, refusing to help police officers in the last moments of his life.
Keith was murdered, aged just 12 years old, by Brady and Myra Hindley. He was snatched by the pair while on his way to his grandmother's house on 16 June 1964.
As part of the kidnapping, Hindley lured the young boy into her van before driving to a lay-by on the Moor, where Brady took him. While Hindley kept watch, Brady sexually assaulted and strangled the boy.
Neither of the two revealed where Keith was buried. Tragically, Keith's mother, Winnie Johnson, died in 2012 without knowing the whereabouts of her son's body.
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Keith's remaining family had hoped that in his final moments Brady would tell authorities where Keith was buried. However, he refused before dying at approximately 6pm tonight.
Winnie Johnson and her son, Joey, on Saddleworth Moor, searching for the body of Keith Bennett. Credit: PA Images
Brady had been held at high-security Ashworth Hospital, Merseyside, since his diagnosis as a psychopath in 1985.
Keith's brother Alan and family lawyer John Ainley have continued to search the moors for clues as to his final resting place.
Prior to Brady's death, solicitor Ainley asked the killer to show some compassion and finally pinpoint the grave.
As reported in the Sun, he told Brady: "Now that half a century is nigh, it's time for you to end the hurt, misery and speculation and do the honourable by revealing Keith's final resting place.
"He is the only one of your five victims still buried on the Moors so you should do the honourable thing by telling us the truth about his fate and last moments.
"By your own admission you are ill and don't have much time left to live, so surely it would be a humane gesture on your part to finally reveal the truth.
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John Kilbride, 12, and Lesley-Ann Downey, 10. Credit: PA Images
"Please God, you won't take the secret to your own grave. You have spent 50 years in jails and psychiatric hospitals so what have you got to lose by being upfront with us?"
Ainley added: "At this late stage it would be good for you to give us fresh information about Keith's grave so that we, and Alan in particular, can have a degree of peace. Surely, it's the least you owe us?"
Brady and Hindley were jailed for life after being found guilty of three murders in 1966, and later admitted to two more.
Pauline Reade, 16, and John Kilbride, 12, were killed in 1963. The following year, Keith and Lesley Ann Downey, 10, went missing. Seventeen-year-old Edward Evans was killed in 1965.
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Sources: The Sun
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