Edited sentence: In 1986 Brady confessed to a journalist that he had been responsible for the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett, something that the police had already suspected, as both children lived in the same area as Brady and Hindley and had disappeared at about the same time as their other victims.The subsequent newspaper reports prompted the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) to reopen the Moors Murders case, in an investigation headed by Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Topping, who had been appointed Head of GMP's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) the previous year