Geoff Knupfer
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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So those are the sort of Distances we were looking at we probably have found Pauline Reed looking at that three or four hundred meter Barrier but the other the other kid Keith Bennett who was missing he was walked onto the moor and walked half a mile and
onto the moor so that wouldn't have fortuitously we had some indication of where where he might have been so because of some photographs that Brady had taken so we were we were more more sighted really on that so we didn't just use that 300 meter
We also wanted to search this valley and he was buried in this valley and sadly we've not found him.
I think this is not easy to say but I suspect it was
Criminal graves, as a rule, tend to be very shallow affairs.
Brady's was certainly no exception.
They were very shallow graves.
And the moment he, this little boy, became exposed, he was in the side of a gully, a peak gully.
The moment that becomes exposed, you know, it's open to the elements and predation and what have you.
So let's not go there.
No, I was, for the last few years of my career, I'd been promoted, you know, fortuitously over the years.
And I ended up as a detective chief superintendent.
And I was down in London.
working as an advisor, a police advisor at the home office.
And so I'd commuted to London for the last few years, you know, down on a Monday and back on a Friday.
So it was, that in itself was a challenging way of life, I suppose.
And then right out of the blue, because I was heavily involved in forensic science at the time and major crime investigation policy, I suppose, this job came up as a college dean at a police college looking at that sort of work.
And that's really what made me retire.