The dig on Saddleworth Moor is back underway - follow the latest in our dedicated live blog as the dig for murder victim Keith Bennett continues
Speaking to the Daily Mail, he said: "It has been a lifelong obsession for me with big unsolved cases. I started delving into the story, what Brady's fascinations were," he said.
He recalled: "I looked at the significance of Eagle Rock as that is where Brady wanted to revisit at the time Peter Topping is interviewing him. They never looked any further there but my biggest question was why not?" Three potential sites of interest were identified due to changes of vegetation and depressions in the ground, but soil analysis samples revealed no anomalies, it's reported.
"When we did ground penetrating radar and he wasn't there and I thought if I feel like this, what would Winnie [Keith's mother] have felt every time she was up there? She had a whole life of torment. She begged the two of them in letters to give them information. I thought I am not going to let her down."The businessman turned sleuth first made a name for himself in 2014 after publishing a book called "Naming Jack the Ripper.
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