Human remains found on Saddleworth Moor

[Namechangedforthisonetoday]

Human remains, believed to be part of a child’s skull have been found on Saddleworth Moor. Please god let this be Keith Bennett. That poor child can hopefully finally be laid to rest in eternal peace with his mother.

Yes this has confused me as well I must say

It seems very bizarre. It seems there was a geologist and an archaeologist involved and soil samples were tested that appeared to indicate human presence. I can't imagine why professional people would lie about what was found

The samples might not have been from the site he claims to have identified.

In the Daily Mail report

Well, he's surmised that. But given that peaty ground shifts quite a bit, it would be really surprising if this grave has retained a place in the swastika after over 50 years.

I can't believe newspapers are still reporting like he's been found when nothing has been confirmed yet. I hope Keith's family sue both the author and the papers. The papers could at least have said 'suspected' in their headlines but they are going full on with headlines saying its Keith.

I'm afraid that's well-known to be a myth.

If you look at photos, there are quite large areas of grass and trees.

There were a couple of supposed experts quoted in the Mail reports who said this was definitely human remains and that they had seen dentition which indicated that it was a child. If it definitely isn't, I guess that is them thoroughly discredited as experts.

This is utterly baffling. One of these experts is particularly renowned in their field of work. Why on earth would they put their name to this if it was a hoax? If this has been exaggerated / intentional I hope they through the book at him.

Are they? Why do you think they're renowned? Do you honestly know that and are you an actual expert in the same field who is able to state that for a fact, or are you just assuming based on reports in some less than rigorous newspapers?

Just because the DM claims someone is an expert does not make them so.

When the case broke, I googled the names of the other people involved in the dig lockheart. I am well aware that plenty of people claiming to be experts are usually armchair at best. You don’t have to work in the same field as someone to know whether they are ‘an expert’ or well educated in something. I can think of many renowned names in several occupations where we can state with virtual certainty that they are an expert and yet many of us will not be similarly trained in these areas.

There are, yes.

I remember hearing a lot about the fact that birds didn't sing / fly over Auchwitz. I visited a few years ago in July. It was a beautiful sunny day and as I stepped off the coach birds were singing away and flying around like anywhere else. There was grass and trees and flowers too.

Obviously the place itself and the memories it holds still give you the chills.

Of course plants would grow where bodies have been buried - more so if anything because of the nutrients.

I’m beginning to think this man, who claims to have solved the Jack the Ripper murders (as if!) is just a glory hunter and has faked the whole thing.

Poor Keith’s brother and family if that is the case 😞

Sadly, I expect the family are used to it. Explains the tone of their statement yesterday. Any investigations will be explored by the police first. There will be many, many crank calls made about this (and other cases).

On the BBC News website it says ""No physical evidence of a jaw bone or skull has been examined."

If this author 'went public' suggesting what he found was Keith Bennett's remains and it proves to be untrue I feel strongly that he should be arrested. I have no idea on what charges but to have raised the hopes of Keith's remaining family without first getting official confirmation is completely despicable, self serving and I hope his book ends up in the rubbish bin.

he already did go public.

I think everyone just needs to wait until the police have finished, they said they are up against it due to conditions.

Surely if you find something like that you mark the place really carefully? GPS technology can pinpoint you to a place so accurately.

It's absolutely dispicable if it's a hoax, I really really hope it isn't.

I just read the DM article / interview and he says at the end that once he found the jaw he 'put everything back as he found it' surely he doesn't mean he reburied everything with no marker and no tarp at the layer he excavated to? He's not just filled everything in and the police are having to reexcavate and hope they're in the right place?!

If you found human remains, even if you weren't expressly looking for them - but especially if you were! - surely you'd ring the police from the site and wait for them to arrive?! Not bury it all again and stroll off too do an interview or two before alerting them??

Surely, surely, that can't be what's going on?!

They have just said on the news that the bone fragments found by a crime writer are not human.

Yeah that checks out.

I don’t think he’s for a second invested in getting peace for the family. He wants to sell books. His fascination was the Ripper was so bloody gleeful.

Then the author is a piece of scum - I hope he rots along with Brady

it's not just that he has gone public.

He's publically congratulated himself on finding Keith Bennett.

Is he really that nasty/stupid/unaware?

Or is just that any publicity will do?

I know I saw. I posted to say he shouldn’t have done that. The family deserve better than this.

If this is some awful hoax he should be ashamed and charged with wasting police time. What a cruel thing to do to a poor family that have lived in limbo for 58 years.