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Moors Murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, are known to have killed five people in what is now Greater Manchester between July 1963 and October 1965.The news comes as police are digging on Saddlewoorth Moor for murder victim Keith Bennett after remains were found.READ MORE: Boy born with two faces due to 'Sonic the Hedgehog' gene defies odds and survivesThe possible remains were discovered by Russell Edwards, an author looking into the infamous killings that rocked the United Kingdom.Edwards has hypothesised that the Nazi-obsessed killer, who ­strangled his victims with string and buried them on Saddleworth Moor, could have been trying to create a Swastika with the burial sites.Greater Manchester Police have released an official statement detailing the situation but were quick to stress that nothing has been confirmed.As it stands, there is no confirmed connection between the find and the Moors Murderers and it was “ far too early to be certain whether human remains have been discovered”.However, the Mail reported that three independent experts have now identified remains at the site as being human, and probably 11 or 12-years-old according to dental analysis.

Police have made a fresh appeal for information into a killing believed to have been committed 55 years ago. As reported in the Manchester Evening News in December, the disappearance of Isabella Skelton, on June 5, 1969, from Crumpsall, is now being investigated as a murder inquiry. One man has been interviewed under caution on suspicion of her murder but no one has been charged.

One-by-one Rahan Arshad carried his sleeping children downstairs and savagely beat them to death. Eight-year-old Abbas was still wearing his Spiderman pyjamas, Adam, 11, had on an England kit, while daughter Henna was just six-years-old.