Keith Bennett May Have Been Found

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After concluding the examination of the initial site, then moving on to examine surrounding areas, the police have finished the investigation.  No remains have been found.

 

Good summary of this sad affair here.  Apparently the archaeologist and geologist members of the author, Russell Edwards's, team are 'no longer available for media interviews', but Edwards himself is still promoting his claims despite increasingly critical expert commentary:

 

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However, a senior forensic archaeologist told the Guardian he had questions over some elements of Edwards’ account. It would be hard to identify the colour of any fabric that had been in peaty soil for 60 years, if it indeed survived, which most fabric would not, he said. He added it would not be possible to make the claim that a human body was buried there based on soil samples alone and that sending pictures to a forensic archaeologist, rather than having them present at the dig, could easily lead to misidentification.

And from this article:

 

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Hughes [the detective leading the case] said the photograph [provided by  Edwards] appeared to show an item “considerably smaller than a juvenile jaw and it cannot be ruled out that it is plant-based”.

Again, this is all so profoundly odd.