When a dog walker wandered through the debris of an old colliery on a Saturday night four decades ago he made a discovery that would shake a town to its core.
Beneath a mattress at what was by then a rubbish tip he discovered two schoolboys with head injuries so severe the wounds would, tragically, prove fatal. Forty two years later that land is now one of Merseyside's most popular parks and the scene of childhood games and family fun every day.
But while the tip is long gone, the terrible murders of John Greenwood and Gary Miller still haunts Stadt Moers Park in Whiston to this day. And the killer responsible for the deaths has still not been held to account despite the determined efforts of multiple generations of the boys' families.
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