Geoff Knupfer

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Lines of Enquiry · Case Notes #007: The Disappeared · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

always dug shallow graves all his graves were shallow affairs and this one was no exception and she described how he was a peat gully so if i can try and paint the picture of a peat outcrop sitting on top of bedrock peat outcrop that's two or three meters deep so it's a substantial thing he's down in the bottom of this thing and she is on the top keeping watch when he he

kill the little boy she went down into the gully with him and he tried digging a grave downwards vertical and of course he hit bedrock straight away so he then dug sideways into this peaked bank

not very deep well it doesn't take a genius to work out what's going to happen the first time it rains and as I say I don't want to cause unnecessary distress to the family but that body was clearly exposed very early on and the inevitable consequences of that are that the body isn't here anymore and with Brady and Hindley what we did we ended up with confessions from both of them plus evidence as well because we'd recovered one of the bodies one of the two bodies so we had a wealth of evidence to put before the courts and we

prepared a file of evidence and it went to the legal authorities who said that they were going to take no further action because these two were serving full life tariffs and they weren't going to go anywhere.

Well, absolutely.

But I think everybody accepted, even the families probably, that this was just going to be a media spectacle for the tabloid press.

So for whatever reason,

it was probably a sound decision.

When I retired from the police, I went into academia for a few years and again was teaching forensic science and major incident homicide investigation and management.

So when the call came 2004, 2005 to come over here, I guess I'd got some experience of forensic archaeology because it didn't exist as a science, a separate science in the 1980s.

But it had developed in the intervening period.

And so when I came over here, I was able to say, well, there are other things we can do apart from just dig holes.

We can do this in a more sensible way.

I think the most important thing, the key bit of all this, is that where the first lot was a criminal process, this is now a humanitarian process.

And it's about recovering victims and returning them to their families.

Any questions being asked about that?

and not prosecuting people.

Yeah, I mean, there are two facets to this, because first and foremost, the commission's legislation was absolutely crystal clear on this, that this is a humanitarian process, and any information received can only be used to recover victims.

By law, it can't be used in a criminal prosecution.

I guess the perpetrators were...

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