Geoff Knupfer

And we had to say that, you know, Mara Hindler's been very helpful.

The idea was to put pressure on Brady.

This was all done in October, November.

We were going to leave...

Any physical searching to the following year so it left months for him thinking that we knew something that we didn't know But actually it didn't work out like that.

What's that the force big case that you walked on Jeff?

No, I'd worked on murder cases before that but I think that was the first case where you know It was a notable case.

I mean some all murders all murders Notable cases

Locally and regionally, perhaps, but that was a nationally, you know, I mean, it was one of the biggest cases in the UK at the time.

In 1986 was the review of the Moors murders.

Is it more difficult to work on a case that has so much attention around it?

Well, I think it is because there's media interest and you're always in the spotlight.

All the cases in the spot, not you as an individual, but the investigation is in the spotlight.

So we were very, very much under the spotlight with the Moors, particularly the searching of Saddleworth Moor for the children.

I can always remember it, the local newspaper, the evening before, it was in July 1986, there was an editorial in the evening newspaper and it said, stop this farce now.

And the next day we found Pauline Reed.

And of course, this newspaper had to eat very humble pie.

Well, I think with a guy like him, clearly, we had proof that he had done all this stuff.

I mean, she'd told us by that time as well what he'd done and what she'd done.

Yeah, I mean, he was just an evil, evil character, but he was mad as a hatter as well.