Does mystery necklace mean Brady killed more?
Her shoes, a broken necklace, a metal chain belt, part of her dress, a safety pin and six buttons were finally returned to her family only in June.
Now they claim the necklace never belonged to the murder victim.
Pauline’s niece Jackie Reade, 44, said yesterday: “It was very emotional seeing Pauline’s shoes and clothing, I was crying.
“But I was told by my nana, Pauline’s mother, that the necklace she was wearing was fine gold with a St Christopher on it.
“The chain and pendant the police have returned to us is not gold, is too chunky, and is not the kind of thing Pauline would have worn.
“I don’t think it is hers – and if it isn’t Pauline’s, who does it belong to?”
Jackie, from Manchester, also doubts whether two other items returned by police belonged to Pauline. She said: “I am grateful for the shoes, and other items of clothing, which will now be reunited with her remains.
“But we have an issue the jewellery.”
Her solicitor Peter Hall said: “Jackie simply does not accept that the items of jewellery returned relate to Pauline.
“The likelihood is these items in fact relate to other murder victims.”
Brady and Hindley were jailed for life in 1966 for torturing and murdering three children – John Kilbride, 12, Lesley Ann Downey, with Clockwise from left, Pauline Reade’s shoes, niece Jackie, the shoes photographed as they were found on the moor and the pendant necklace that the family were given 10, and Edward Evans, 17. They went on to admit the murders of Pauline and Keith Bennett, 12.
Pauline got willingly into a car with Hindley. But after they drove to the moor she was met by a waiting Brady who sexually assaulted and then murdered her.
Hindley died in 2002 in prison. Brady died aged 79 in May, 2017. After his death an audit found some of Pauline’s body parts were being kept at Leeds University at the request of police.
Her family now plan to hold a second funeral as a result.