Moors Murderer Ian Brady has died, taking with him the location of one of his victim’s bodies.
Twelve-year-old Keith Bennett’s body has never been found.
He was abducted on June 16, 1964, after leaving his family home to visit his grandmother.
Brady and his lover and accomplice Myra Hindley murdered five children, including Bennett, in the 1960s.
Eventually caught and jailed for life in 1966, Brady refused to tell the Bennett family where their son was buried.
Brady was convicted of the abduction, torture, sexual abuse and murder of 12-year-old John Kilbride, Edward Evans, 17, and Lesley Ann Downey, 10.
Hindley was convicted of murdering Downey and Evans and protecting her lover in the third case.
By the 1980s, the couple finally admitted to the abduction and murder of 16-year-old Pauline Reade on her way to a Manchester disco in 1963 and killing Bennett, 12, in 1964.
They buried their innocent victims on the desolate Saddleworth Moor near the northern city of Manchester.
Brady died in the high-security Ashworth Hospital near Liverpool overnight.
The Glasgow-born murderer reportedly had cancer and had claimed to be on a hunger strike since 1999; leading authorities to believe he may have tried to starve himself to death.
In 2013 his request to be moved to a Scottish prison was denied after medical experts said he had chronic mental illness.
The move would have meant he would no longer have to be force-fed.
The savage nature of the Moors Murderers’ killings made them among the most hated criminals in Britain.
The pair were finally caught when Hindley’s brother-in-law tipped off police.
Tape recordings made by the couple of their young victims pleading for mercy before being tortured and killed were heard by the court during the sadistic duo’s trial.
Ten-year-old Lesley Ann Downey could be heard whimpering: “I want to see my mummy. Please God, help me.”
The disgust felt by Britons and the tabloid press towards the pair is still palpable despite the fact their horrific crimes took place more than 50 years ago.
Hindley died in 2002 after 36 years in jail and was Britain’s longest serving female prisoner.
She tried to find favour with the court by unsuccessfully trying to help police find the missing body of Bennett.
Despite her claims she had reformed and it was Brady’s fault she committed the murders, successive UK governments refused to release her.
Brady insisted she was as much to blame.
When Hindley died, a banner which read “Burn in hell” was left outside the building.