I caught the whole programme jOhn, and filling in the gaps doesn't make it anymore palatable, but this was the gist of it.......

After Brady and Hindly were convicted in 1966 (?), 200 photos that were not thought to be linked to the murders, were returned to Hindley's mother. But at this time they were not suspected of Pauline Reades and Keith Bennetts murder.

Hindley then wrote numerous letters to her mother, each getting increasingly insistent, over a period of five years, asking for FIVE particular slides to be sent to her and ultimately Brady.

The letter that eventually swayed Hindley's mother to part with those five slides, told her that Brady would 'send someone around to collect them,'if they weren't forthcoming.

Nobody guessed the significance of those five slides, although you would have thought why just ask for five out of 200? And aren't these sort of things examined when they arrive at the prison? This all came to light after the death of Hindley in 2002, when her and her mothers letters were discovered.

By now, the police knew Hindley and Brady were probably guilty of Reades and Bennets murders too, but the D.P.P said it would be too costly to force a new trial, because technically it would be impossible to prove, and Brady is never going to be released anyway.

So they have no grounds for demanding the five slides be handed over. The police are sure they DO hold the clues of Keith's burial site and have attributed Brady's insistence at keeping them to him wanting to remain in control of the situation....ie he wins because he 'keeps' the body, in his twisted mind this is a victory.

They are currently using advanced image analysts to go over the photos they already have for new clues, and geologists are re-examining the rock formations in the photos, to try and pinpoint the locations, but the five slides that Brady has in his possesion are most likely the ones that hold all the clues and landmarks.

I imagine that it won't be until Brady dies that these five slides will be examined. Keith's brother still sounds like a broken man, all the family want is a decent resting place, and some sort of 'closure' to the whole affair...but it will take Brady's death to provide this. Let us hope it is sooner rather than later.

Sorry to have gone on and on, but the programme was so sad I couldn't really condense it.