'I keep crying looking at it'
A never-seen-before photo of Moor murder victim Pauline Reade has been shared 60 years after she was killed.
Today she tells how she became a comfort to her shattered gran Joan after the unbearable loss of her daughter because she reminded her of Pauline. “She said, ‘You remind me of your auntie Pauline. You do things like her’,” she recalled. “Then Nana started explaining to me Pauline had gone missing when she was 16 and she didn’t come home – and that she was still waiting for her to come home.”
Until that dreadful night in 1963 when Joan waved her daughter off to a dance. During her walk to a social club 10 minutes from home, Pauline was lured into a black van by 23-year-old Hindley on the pretence of helping her to look for a glove she had lost on nearby Saddleworth Moor. She promised the teenager records in return.
“There was a kind of relief. Nana could stop looking out for her because I think that’s what she had been doing for all those years. I have seen the police photographs of how Pauline was found in her grave on the Moors. The peat soil had preserved her. It was like looking at her as she was when she was 16.While Jackie never met Pauline, her grandmother’s descriptions evoke for her a poignant picture of the lively youngster.
“My nana used to make me apple pie, from trees in her garden. She made good Sunday dinners and showed me how to make gravy. Seeing this book really brings it home that she would have done all that stuff with Pauline.”
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