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he knocked her by 1955 grant Beaumont better known to friends as Jim entered a city hotel in Adelaide on a high after a
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win at the horse races the Australian Army veteran had recently returned to South Australia after years spent
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serving overseas and was now working as a taxi driver for local cab company suburban taxis he owned several vehicles
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working hard of long hours to earn extra income keen to celebrate his win at the
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races with a drink Jim walked into the Victoria Hotel on high interest rate in the heart of Adelaide City his attention
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was immediately drawn to a woman who was sitting eating a meal with another couple struck by her natural beauty and
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warned Brianna's Jim worked up the courage to approach the woman who introduced herself as Nancy Ellis the
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two hit it off immediately just six weeks after their first date Jim proposed to Nancy and by December that
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year the pair were married nine months later in September 1956 they gave birth to their first child a daughter they
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named Jane NAR ter November 1958 marked the arrival of Anna Kathleen the Beaumont second daughter by July 1961
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their idyllic family was complete upon the arrival of a third and final child a boy named after his father grant Ellis
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the bone months were the quintessential was he family by 1966 41 year old Jim Beaumont had traded driving taxis for a
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new career in sales he worked as a traveling salesman for a linen company Wally's wife 39 year old knees he stayed
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home to take care of their three young children nine-year-old Jane Beaumont was wise
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beyond her years incredibly well-spoken and intelligent Jane was a shy girl who enjoyed reading
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writing poetry and playing outdoors she had a love for academia that encouraged a dream of becoming an author or teacher
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when she grew up her polished composure would crack when excited causing her speech to delightfully stutter as the
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oldest of the three Beaumont children Jane exuded a level of maturity and protectiveness that her parents likened
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to a 15 year old Jane embraced her natural maternal qualities by watching protectively over her two younger
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siblings seven-year-old honor Beaumont was the more extroverted of her siblings with a wild imagination that could keep
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her entertained for hours outgoing and affectionate Anna loved seeing dancing playing dress-ups and putting together
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concerts that she would perform in front of her family sometimes roping her brother and sister in on the act the
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baby of the family four year old grant Beaumont jr. was a little gentleman who idolized his father he'd shadow gym
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around the house watching as his father completed domestic tasks and pretending to be he's a little assistant
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in another attempt to pay just like his dad grant would zip around in a red go-cart
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acting as though it was a taxi grant was a sweet and friendly little boy and to the family doted on him lovingly
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Jim Vermont's job as a traveling salesman men he often had to spend days at a time on the road and while he
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disliked being away from his family it afforded them a modest the comfortable lifestyle to keep him up to date with
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the happenings at home Jane would send her father handwritten letters detailing the little events of
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her day which Jim would keep tucked safely in his briefcase to read each night for a reminder of home one such
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letter read dear loving daddy when auntie Tolly came down to stay with us yesterday we went to the good wood fool
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last night honor and grant swam in the toddler's pool which was up to my waist on me but auntie mummy and I swam in the
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three foot six inch pool while we were there I learned how to over my eyes under the water forever so long and I
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learned how to kick my legs and to make my arms float and a dive gracefully dive
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races dive and planed off I learnt all this from Artie Talley there is only one thing I can't do breathing out as I'm
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swimming along tonight I had a hot pie fritz and sauce sandwich and rainbow ice cream aunty tally bought a great big
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roast chicken from her father for nothing most of all I want to wish you much luck
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with your hot tiring work well goodbye I have to go Neil I love you Loving Jane whenever Jim managed to take
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time off work he would take his family caravanning to visit his old army mates in Victoria or explore different parts
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of South Australia during one trip along the great ocean road on Victoria's west
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coast the family stopped at the iconic Twelve Apostles landmark Jane and Donna sat on either side of grant as the
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Beaumont children happily posed on the cliffs in front of the limestone stacks the memory captured in a photograph Jim
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and Nancy Beaumont cherished these holidays savoring every moment the family were together
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[Music] [Music] by 1966 the Beaumont family was living the Australian dream their suburban home
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on Harding Street in Somerton Park allowed them to take advantage of the iconic Aussie beach lifestyle the
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seaside suburb of Glenelg who was only a 20-minute walk away and to the Beaumont's like many others were regular
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visitors during the warmer months the cool pristine waters of Glenelg Beach provided respite from the harsh
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Australian Sun enter the stretch of golden sand was the ideal space for the kids to run around and play South
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Australia's metropolitan coastline stretches for 30 kilometres from south to West plenty of lies towards its
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center on the shores of holdfast Bay located 11 kilometres southwest from Adelaide central business district as
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the oldest European settlement on mainly into South Australia Glenelg is home to
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many historical hotels restaurants and attractions which overlook the scenic seafront during the summer months the
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beach is flat serene sea provides perfect swimming conditions for thousands of daily visitors the central
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hub of mostly square frames the shores of the beach intersected by the Glen old - city tram line neighboring the square
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is collie reserve an experience of lush green lawns shadowed by tall pine trees providing a popular space for picnics
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and sunbathing aside from cosmetic and modern refurbishments the Glenelg beachfront
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intense surrounds are very much the same today as they were in the 1960s back then the Glen old jetty was in a state
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of disrepair after suffering extensive damage from a major storm in 1948 and had yet to be restored
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in 1969 a much shorter jetty was constructed in its place which remains standing today in January 1966 Adelaide
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was experiencing a prolonged heat wave with temperatures soaring towards 40 degrees Celsius
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to cool off the Beaumont family had spent a significant portion of the summer school holidays at Glenelg Beach
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Jim Beaumont had been lucky enough to enjoy four weeks of holidays over the Christmas period spending many days of
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his break at the beach with his children Jim was officially back to work on Tuesday January 25 and was to embark on
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the hot 150 kilometer journey to snow town for his first round of sales calls for the year before leaving that morning
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Jim agreed to give his three kids a lift down to Colonial Beach to save them from
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having to ride their bikes in the heat upon reaching the Glenelg foreshore Jane Anna and grant got out of their father's
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Holden station wagon and rushed down to the beach like a majority of Ozzy kids in the early 1960s the Beaumont siblings
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enjoyed a great amount of Independence the quiet close-knit suburbs of Adelaide were carefree and safe where everybody
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knew their neighbors and looked out for one another spending time inside was discouraged and
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parents typically sent their children outdoors alone to play for hours on end urging them to return home before the
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street lights flickered on at night in the hot Australian summer suburban streets backyards parks and beaches
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filled with local children who would gather to play games sports ride their bikes and make new friends scrounging up
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enough loose change to buy ice creams hot chips mixed lollies and soft drinks these were the days before television
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sets were commonplace before the hole in the ozone layer presented sun exposure threats and
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before parents felt the pre-cooling omnipresence of stranger danger jim beaumont trusted his three children
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completely the maturity of his eldest daughter Jane served her younger siblings well Jane confidently led honor
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and grant on summer outings herding them on and off the bus carrying grant on her
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hip and ensuring her little brother and sister never went deeper than their belly buttons when swimming in the ocean
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there were good sensible kids who took great care of each other and obeyed their parents rules before Jim Beaumont
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drove onwards for his work trip he sat in his car observing contentedly as his three children played on the beach
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four-year-old son Greene caught sight of his father watching and ran towards him
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waving happily and calling go on daddy don't worry the following day of Wednesday January
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26 1966 Nancy Bowman woke at 7:00 a.m. after another hot and sticky night's sleep she
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lay in bed enjoying the peace and quiet before her children arose it wasn't long
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before honor and grant burst excitedly into their mother's room jumping on Nancy's bed and asking if they could
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spend at the day at the beach school was due to recommence the following week and
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the kids wanted to make the most of their remaining time off together while they still could it was Australia Day a
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national holiday that marks the anniversary of the arrival of the first fleet of British ships to Australian
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chores although the accompanying public holiday was anticipated for the upcoming weekend
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Glenelg Beach were still guaranteed to attract thousands of visitors that Wednesday eager to join in on the day's
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festivities unlike the rest of her family nancy beaumont didn't care much for the
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beach but with her husband away for work she was the only one available to accompany the children to Glen Elk she
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agreed to consider taking them once her daily housework was complete after breakfast the Beaumont children were
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becoming impatient as Nancy had several chores she had the finish she caved in and agreed to let her children go to
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clean orgone their own it was a trip the three had made without parental supervision many times before and with
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the wires and maturer Jane leading them Nancy had nothing to worry about while it was only a short walk and even
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shorter bike ride to Glenelg it was far too hot for the children to make the journey on foot the diagonal road bus
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stop was only 100 meters away from the Bauman's house and to the bus route led straight into glen old stopping on
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mostly street a short walk from the beach nancy decided catching the bus would be the quickest and therefore best
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option for jane owner and grant the eager Beaumont children quickly dressed in their bathing suits the
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eldest Jane or pink one-piece bathers with pale green shorts and a tartan canvas and shoes middle child Hana wore
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red and white striped one-piece bathing with tan shorts and tan sandals the youngest gran
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wore green and white bathers with green cotton shorts red leather sandals and remained shirtless jane packed three
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beach towels into a green airline style shoulder bag along with a paperback copy
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of the novel Little Women Nancy handed her eldest daughter eight shillings and sixpence to use for bus fares and to
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lunch which Jane carefully placed inside a white clip top purse they were instructed to use the change from their
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lunch to buy tickets on the midday bus home [Music] with the children out of the house
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it didn't take Nancy long to finish her housework at around 10:30 a.m. she jumped on her bike and rode over to
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visit a friend who lived nearby five minutes before the midday bus from Glenn old was due to arrive
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Nancy rode to the diagonal road stop to meet up with her children however when the bus arrived the only person to
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disembark was an elderly woman Nancy suspected her kids must have missed the midday bus and would instead jump on the
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following bus which would arrive to the diagonal road stop around 2 p.m. I'm concerned
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Nancy rode home soon after she arrived a couple of friends stopped by for a surprise visit during their stay
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Nancy kept a watchful eye on the clock but 2:00 p.m. tick by and still there was no sign of Jane Ana or grant she
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reminded herself that the kids knew the local area like the back of their hands and there were several different routes
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they may have taken to walk home if they missed the bus Nancy decided to wait a short while
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longer as the 3:00 p.m. bus would be arriving at the diagonal road stop from Glenn old soon and there was a likely
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chance her children would be on board shortly before 3:00 p.m. June Beaumont's Holton station wagon unexpectedly pulled
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into the driveway he wasn't scheduled to return home from snow town until the following day but as
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sales were slow in the weeks following Christmas holidays Jim thought his time would be better spent at home with his
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family Nancy informed her husband that their kids hadn't returned home from the beach
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and she was starting to worry Jim assured Nancy there was nothing to be worried about believing they would have
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heard something by now if an accident had occurred it was the same thing Nancy had been telling herself all afternoon
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reassured by the fact that an accident injuring all three children was highly unlikely she was thankful for the fact
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that if one child was hurt the other two were there to seek help she had always believed in safety in numbers there was
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still no sign of the children by 3:30 p.m. Nancy waited expectantly at home in case
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they arrived at any moment while Jim drove to Glen old to see if they were still there the seaside town was packed
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with thousands of people making it impossible for Jim to spot his children through the crowds he returned home to
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pick up Nancy and the pair comb to the beach their initial concern quickly growing into full-blown panic as they
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failed to uncover any sign of their children at 5:30 p.m. Jim and Nancy Beaumont walked into the gunnel police
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station in mostly square and declared to their three children Jane honor and grant to be missing
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the constable led the Glenelg police station took a description of the beaumont children but assured their
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concerned parents everything would be okay an abduction involving three children was unheard of
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so the constable was certain the kids a day they lost track of time lost their way home or had been involved in an
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accident nonetheless he called police headquarters in Adelaide to file the report German means he returned home to
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Harding Street disheartened to find that the kids hadn't returned during their absence
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soon after two police officers arrived to conduct a search of the Beaumont house believing there was a chance the
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children were simply hiding from their parents to avoid getting in trouble for failing to meet their curfew when this
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search proved fruitless the officers began a more detailed line of questioning with Nancy Beaumont asking
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for exact information about what the children were wearing and what time they had left home
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she described her children nine-year-old er Jane was four foot six inches tall thin with freckles and sun-bleached pair
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cropped to her ears with a pushed back fringe at the front seven year old Anna was four foot tall of plump build with
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Sun tanned skin and short dark brown hair with a fringe four year old grant was just three foot tall thin with short
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brown hair and an olive complexion with very Sun tanned skin the police left the
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search Glenelg and the surrounding Somerton park streets with a frantic Jim Beaumont in tow they searched the
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coastlines of Glenelg Somerton West Beach Sea Cliff and Brighton looking for any sign of the children including the
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bag towels and clothing they had left the house with that morning the hot temperature made the search extra
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challenging as the beaches were still packed with crowds of people late into the night
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Jim Beaumont quickly ruled out the possibility his children drowned in the sea later stating quote the beaches were
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parked and the sea was calm one kitty perhaps could be drowned but the three together I just can't imagine that there
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would have been some evidence they had there green beach bag with them they had their clothes I found nothing like that
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at all struggling to see properly in the dark the police called off the search until
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the morning light June Beaumont feared that he wouldn't return home without his children and continued to search the
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streets and beaches alone until 7:00 a.m. supported by friends and neighbors nancy beaumont kept a vigil at home as
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word of the children's disappearance trickled on to late-night radio news and television reports nancy wondered
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whether her children had fallen into a hole or down a cliff the children's love for one another was strong and if one
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was hurt the other two would never abandon them all three were afraid of the dark and they may have taken shelter
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somewhere for the non the possibility of abduction crossed to Nancy's mind but the idea of someone kidnapping three
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children at once seemed so far-fetched as she quickly dismissed the prospect wracked with guilt
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Nancy blamed herself for allowing her children to go to the beach alone that morning the increasing fear that her
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children were deceased fueled such intense anxiety in Nancy her local doctor was called to the house to
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administer her a strong sedative when an exhausted June Beaumont returned home from his futile search he found his wife
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slumped in a chair in a medicated sleep her face stained with tears the extensive police search for the
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Beaumont children resumed at daylight the following morning on Thursday January 27 five boats from the sea
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rescue squadron scan to the Glen Hope shoreline while officers trudged on foot through storm water drains sand dunes
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and dense scrub police from City and suburban patrols joined the ongoing search conducting door knocks and
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checking backyards sheds and a vacant properties police issued detailed descriptions of the children's physical
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features into clothing to the media ball police cars fitted with loudspeakers drove the streets of Glenelg Co killing
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for help by mid-morning June Beaumont addressed gathering members of the press on the
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back porch of his Harding Street home sick with worry and struggling from sleep deprivation he pleaded desperately
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for his children to come home telling the media quote it's a complete mystery I can't understand it my kids will be
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crying their eyes out it's like a nightmare overwhelmed with emotion Jim bowed his head and broke down in
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tears Nancy Beaumont was too distraught to face anyone and remained indoors in a
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medicated fog as news of the disappearance spread the Glenn old police station was quickly inundated
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with information from the public people wishing to speak to police had formed a line that stretched 20 meters long
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outside the door with just the one sergeant and four detectives the Glenelg police station was ill-equipped to
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handle the unexpected in the large scale case for the small team interviewing every single person and following every
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possible lead was impossible they painstakingly typed each given statement using the station's only typewriter the
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search for the missing Beaumont children quickly escalated into a statewide frenzy police roadblocks were
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established on all major South Australian highways and Adelaide's Airport and Dru railway station were put
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under heavy surveillance members of the public volunteered their time to wade in the search including
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taxi drivers who had previously worked with Jim Bowman they cruised the streets in their cabs while members of Jane
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Bowman's Briony Park rode their bikes around the surrounding neighborhoods searching for their missing friend three
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kids matching the ages of the Beaumont children were sighted at 7:00 p.m. on the night the siblings vanished the
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children were seen standing by the water's edge at the paddock were longer Boat Haven a marina just one kilometer
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north from collie reserve a woman spoke to the children briefly and who they had
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informed her that they didn't live in the area given the high profile and urgency of
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the Beaumont children case police were taking no chances the marina which had a surface covering 70 acres and a depth of
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six feet was drained for the first time since its establishment in 1959 in what would become one of the largest single
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searches for the Beaumont children so far 80 young police cadets dragged themselves through the thick black
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foul-smelling mud at the bottom of the empty marina using broomsticks they prodded the mud for any sign of the
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missing children but to no avail despite these efforts not a single piece of evidence was located to indicate
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where the children had gone it was determined that the siblings left home carrying around 17 or so items with them
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including bags clothes towels as well as Jane's bulk and purse none of these items were recovered at any of the key
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locations the children were expected to have traveled nor where they spotted on the shoreline of glenelg beach this made
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the possibility the trio had drowned all the more unlikely given their belongings
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would have been left behind on the sand and a later discovered the search for Jane Anna and grant Bowman soon became
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the most extensive missing persons search in South Australian history within the first 48 hours of the
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Beaumont children's disappearance police had received hundreds of calls from people claiming to have seen the three
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young siblings one woman claimed to have seen a man into three children enter a vacant house opposite her home in
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Adelaide's eastern suburbs but the group was mysteriously gone the next day another believed she saw the three
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children accompanied by two men sitting at a bus stop multiple suburbs away in semaphore Park
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most reported sightings led nowhere all were ruled out completely but with the help of several reliable corroborating
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witness statements detectives were able to piece together what was likely to have been Jane owner and grant
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Bartlett's movements prior to their disappearance while reports from witnesses who believed they saw the
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children on the morning of January 26 varied in specifics there was enough information provided for police to
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establish a fairly reliable timeline and identify several potential leads at approximately 10:15 a.m.
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Jane owner and grant Beaumont boarded a public transit bus to Glen Hulk from the
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diagonal road stop as confirmed by the driver an older couple traveling on the bus recalled to Jane Beaumont sitting on
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the back seat greeting little women while honour and grant messed around treacly putting their arms out of the
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windows just to get a rise out of their older sister the bus arrived to Glenelg just a few
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minutes later entered her siblings disembarked on Mosely Street several streets back from the sea from local
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postman Tom Patterson who knew the Beaumont family from his daily mail route saw Jane honor and grant walking
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along those Lee street holding hands and laughing Tom heard one of their children
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yelling out to the others look there's our post e into little grant and waved hello Tom struggled to recall the exact
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time he saw the bone on children uncertain if it was in the morning or afternoon but police believed the
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sighting occurred as the children first headed to the beach several witnesses observed the Beaumont children playing
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in the shallow waters just north of the gun old jetty which formed the busiest section of the beach it was the same
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area they had swam in the day before when their father dropped them off before his work trip to snow town honor
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and grant were only comfortable splashing in the shallows and to never ventured beyond to waist deep shortly
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after 11 a.m. the children finished swimming and made the short walk from the jetty to collie
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reserve where they laid their tails out on the lawn here they were witnessed playing under a water sprinkler as they
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washed the sand off their feet this siding was further corroborated by a school friend of Jane Bowman's who saw
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the siblings at the reserve at around 11:25 am an old early woman sitting on a bench in front of the knee by holdfast
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sailing club observed a men approached the Beaumont children as they played out on the lawn he was described to be in
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his 30s six foot tall with an athletic build tend to skin long face high forehead and a wavy blond hair
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he wore navy blue bay the briefs with a distinctive white stripe after speaking to Jane and her younger siblings the man
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placed his own tail on the grass a few feet away then lay on his stomach and - watched the children play within 15
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minutes of the man's arrival the children were seen jumping over him the oldest girl playfully flicking him and
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her siblings with her tell a half hour later the elderly woman observing the group left Kali Reserve noting the men
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and her children were still frolicking together on the lawn when she departed sometime between 11:30 a.m. into midday
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the Beaumont children entered wenzels cake shop on Mosely Street where they often purchased their lunch when in town
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the bakery was located right next to the bus stop the siblings would use to get back home to Somerton Park these actions
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seemed to be in line with their original plan to buy a lunch and return home by midday as advised by their mother Nancy
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Berman had given Jane 8 shillings and sixpence in silver coins to purchase lunch for her and her younger siblings
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enough for each of the children to buy a pasty and have enough left over for the
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bus fare home at wenzels bakery the three children purchased five pasties 6 finger buns and two large bottles of
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soft drink one of the children also stated something along the lines of and a pyre for the man it was an unusual
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request given the children had arrived to the store alone and the shopkeeper who had served the Beaumont children in
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the past did not recall them ever purchasing a meat pyre before this large order far exceeded the amount of food
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the children required for lunch whilst racking up a bill beyond what they could afford with the modest amount of money
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given to them by their mother but when it came time to pay the children handed over a one-pound to note a significant
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amount in 1966 and more money than the Beaumont children ever had access to after leaving the bakery around midday
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the children did not go straight to the bus stop and returned home as expected instead minutes later they were spotted
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back in collie reserve this time near the Glenelg surf club building an elderly couple sitting on a bench saw
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the three children arrive and start speaking to the same tall blond-haired man seen playing with the children
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earlier this unknown man then approached the elderly couple seated nearby and within earshot of the children asked if
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they had seen anyone going through their belongings he exclaimed someone's nicked
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our money this conversation was overheard by another woman close by who watched as the men returned to the
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children and began helping the young Beaumont girls put their shorts on over their bathers the woman noted the action
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as odd as the oldest girl looked much too old to require assistance getting dressed the men then went into the
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change sheds behind to the surf club building to get dressed taking nothing but a pair of trousers and a towel the
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three children patiently waited for him on a bench outside and were still there when the elderly couple left Khali
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Reserve at around 12:15 p.m. after this there were no further reported sightings
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of the men or of Jane Erna or grant Bowman based on witness descriptions a sketch of the unknown men last seen with
00:34:51
the Beaumont children was drawn up witnesses could remember certain physical features but not other
00:34:58
distinguishing characteristics such as the color of his eyes or the shape of his nose or mouth this led to a vague
00:35:05
sketch with the artist left to fill in the gaps using his own creative interpretation this rough sketch was
00:35:13
widely circulated and although it didn't lead to a positive ID it did prompt another witness into coming forward the
00:35:21
witness provided additional details about the man's appearance describing him as being in his late 30s or early
00:35:28
40s with a slim build and fair - librarian hair parted on the left-hand side the sketch was subsequently updated
00:35:37
but the men at portrayed never came forward to clear himself making him the lead suspect in the Beaumont children's
00:35:44
disappearance according to witnesses the Beaumont children appeared completely at
00:35:52
ease in the company of the unknown men and did not seem at all distressed based on this information police suspected
00:36:00
Australia day was not the first time they had all met and - the men may have frequented the Glenelg area or have
00:36:06
already been known to the children in some other capacity ana Beaumont had recently told her mother that Jane had a
00:36:13
boyfriend down at the beach a comment that Nancy had brushed off innocently at the time but now had her questioning
00:36:20
whether the unknown men could have been James hypothetical crush the witness who
00:36:27
saw the men Halbert Jane get dressed further added to this theory Nancy Beaumont described Jane as a shy modest
00:36:35
girl who was very particular about her body it would be uncharacteristic of her to permit a total stranger to touch her
00:36:42
in such an intimate way investigators developed the theory that the unknown man was a pedophile who may have been
00:36:51
grooming the Beaumont children during their unsupervised visits tickle an old building a rapport with the siblings
00:36:57
over time spotting them unsupervised on Australia Day may have presented him with a clearer opportunity to target
00:37:04
them a wolf in sheep's clothing it seemed to like no coincidence that when Jane and her siblings were due to take
00:37:12
the bus home her money had mysteriously disappeared the police considering the likely scenario that the man himself had
00:37:21
pocketed the child's money or purse feigning concern into maintaining the deception by questioning park visitors
00:37:27
about the supposed theft the 1p under note the children used in the bakery was perhaps one last act by
00:37:34
the perpetrator to secure his prey a generous offer to the down-and-out kids to spend lavishly on their lunch having
00:37:43
earned to their trust the men may have then offered to take Jane Anna and grant home this theory would have the children
00:37:51
willingly leaving collie reserved with their abductor without drawing any attention to themselves or sensing any
00:37:58
danger for June Bowman the possibility that his children had been abducted synched plausible he told the media
00:38:07
quote someone must be holding the children against their will otherwise they would have come home by now Jim
00:38:18
speculated that an abductor may have been observing the children for some time watching as they played in their
00:38:24
parents presence at the beach over the summer upon noticing they had no adult supervision on Australia Day
00:38:30
the abductor may have seen it as the perfect opportunity to strike they might have approached Jane Eyre and grant and
00:38:38
lured to lure the children into their vehicle perhaps by offering to go for a surprise visit to see their father or
00:38:44
fabricating a story about their parents being involved in an accident the fear that her children were being held
00:38:52
captive fled at Nancy Beaumont to tell a journalist for the Herald newspaper quote I think as a mother I'd rather
00:39:00
kill the children myself and get it over quickly than have them at the mercy of some bad person for so long
00:39:10
running with the theory the Beaumont children had been abducted by a pedophile the Sunday Mail newspaper
00:39:16
printed a story that played on every parent's worst nightmares with a headline declaring sex crime now feared
00:39:25
the article went one step further stating the police suspect that the three Beaumont children had been slain
00:39:32
and to voice the concerns that the Beaumont attacker could strike again parallels were drawn with the unsolved
00:39:41
murders of 15 year olds Mary Ann Schmidt and Christine Shara at Sydney's Wonder Beach the previous
00:39:47
year suggesting the same perpetrator could be responsible for both cases the wonder beach in Beaumont cases shared a
00:39:55
noticeable similarities as both involved two children going missing from a crowded beach during the January school
00:40:02
holidays but unlike the Wonder Beach case where Mary Ann and Christine's bodies were found within a day of their
00:40:08
disappearance near with our last seen alive no trace of the Beaumont children had
00:40:13
surfaced in close to a week by day five in the ongoing search for the Beaumont children South Australian
00:40:22
police had received over 1,000 phone calls in relation to the identity of their prime suspect further reports
00:40:29
placed the Beaumont children on airplanes in cars and at various locations throughout Adelaide interstate
00:40:36
newspapers had also picked up on the story leading to alleged sightings in other states as well with the
00:40:45
investigation now focusing on identifying the men last seen with the Beaumont children police turned to their
00:40:51
attention to known sex offenders around to the holdfast Bay Area as the suspect was seen by witnesses carrying only a
00:40:58
tail and trousers it was speculated he live below Killeen as those visiting from further away would be inclined to
00:41:05
come better prepared for the trip possibly carrying a bag to hold their positions however most known sexual
00:41:13
predators who lived locally were able to provide solid alibis for the day that Beaumont childrens vanished Detective
00:41:21
Sergeant alex palmer urged the Glenelg residents to check their properties for any sign of the children quote there are
00:41:30
many vacant homes both old ramshackle buildings in the old area of Glenelg and to new houses in the nearby suburbs and
00:41:38
the children could have been lured into them and anything could have happened days turned into weeks and still there
00:41:51
was no sign of Jane honor or grant Beaumont the South Australian state government put forward a modest the
00:41:59
reward sum of five hundred pounds for any information about the whereabouts of the missing children the reward was
00:42:06
deemed highly inadequate prompting local businessman and private citizens to contribute to the amount in the hopes of
00:42:13
encouraging others to follow suit Jim Bowman agreed to sell his house to boost the reward fund if anyone came
00:42:21
forward with information leading to the safe return of his children with donations from the local community the
00:42:28
reward grew to just over ten thousand pounds this increased amount coupled with the extensive media coverage of the
00:42:36
case led to an onslaught of false reports hoaxes and wild theories about what happened to the children people
00:42:45
showed up unannounced on the Beaumont doorstep to share their visions psychic readings and extended their religious
00:42:51
beliefs Jim and Nancy listened patiently to everyone who reached out to them but
00:42:57
the constant media attention and wild speculations were taking their toll opportunistic strangers tried to take
00:43:05
advantage of the grieving couple while others added insult to injury by trying to point at the anguished parents as
00:43:11
suspects a man with a foreign accent called afternoon tabloid newspaper the news claiming he was holding the
00:43:20
Beaumont children for ransom when the receptionist tried to connect the man with the editorial department he hung up
00:43:27
and was never heard from again the call was quickly ruled a hoax thought to be inspired by the kidnapping
00:43:35
for ransom of Sydney schoolboy Graham thorn six years earlier in 1960 which received huge nationwide media attention
00:43:42
at the time the kidnapping of Graham thorn was covered in episode 75 of case file
00:43:50
the federal police received a phone call from Adelaide resident purlins grocer reporting that he had sighted three
00:43:57
children matching the descriptions of the missing Beaumont children according to grocer the three children were being
00:44:04
driven in a car by a lone men grocer alleged the men held him up with a pistol and demanded he fill his car
00:44:12
radiator with water before fleeing with the children to the Barossa Valley a renowned wine producing region 75
00:44:18
kilometres from Adelaide later grocer admitted he had made this report while highly intoxicated and two that it was
00:44:27
based on nothing more than his own theory he and a friend were prosecuted for making the false allegation
00:44:33
[Music] following a report that the Beaumont children were being held captive by a
00:44:40
man and a woman at a home on kalenna logs Esplanade the homicide squad raided several houses in the area
00:44:47
who found a no trace of their children the men who made the report admitted it was a lie driven out of spire the couple
00:44:55
had falsely reported as the Bauman's cutters were actually his estranged wife and her new boyfriend after Melbourne
00:45:05
based the newspaper the truth published an ostentatious story declaring the Beaumont children to still be alive
00:45:11
multiple witnesses claimed to have seen a man fitting the description of the prime suspect driving a green Ford
00:45:18
utility truck along the highway between Adelaide and Melbourne the witnesses stated the men had two girls and a boy
00:45:26
in the back however given the amount of time that had passed between the alleged
00:45:31
sightings and the witness statements police mostly discounted these sightings as unrelated to the case the media
00:45:40
speculated the perpetrator could have taken the Beaumont children as far as New Zealand as no passports were
00:45:46
required to travel between the two countries at the time pitches and descriptions of Jane Eyre and grant were
00:45:53
sent to New Zealand authorities with advise to remain on high alert a summit in park resident reported
00:46:02
seeing three children walking along Boundary Road a residential suburban street with links to mostly Street
00:46:09
shortly before 3 p.m. on January 26 the children were in the company of a man described as aged between 30 and 35 6
00:46:19
feet tall with light brown hair high cheekbones and a son reddened complexion he was carrying a dark airline style bag
00:46:28
and walked with a slight distinct swagger as this description was inconsistent with the characteristics of
00:46:36
the unknown men last seen with the Beaumont children investigators mostly ruled this sighting
00:46:41
out after two weeks of searching had failed to uncover any signs of Jane Anna and gran Jim Bowman hesitantly returned
00:46:52
to work in an attempt to restore some semblance of normalcy to his life Nancy joined her husband on the road
00:47:01
desperate for a distraction and a change of scenery as every corner of their empty family home reminded her of their
00:47:08
missing children with leads reaching dead ends and to no new information surfacing stories of the Beaumont
00:47:19
children's disappearance started to fade from the headlines in an attempt to keep
00:47:23
the story in the news Jim and Nancy sporadically agreed to interviews with the press but their discomfort in the
00:47:30
spotlight was clear and for the constant trauma of having to relive their ordeal
00:47:34
caused the couple great distress without any new compelling information to report
00:47:40
the media attention and public assistance in their case began to dissipate Australia's then leading forensic
00:47:50
psychiatrist dr. John McGeorge was interviewed by journalists looking for a fresh angle on the story doctor McGeorge
00:47:57
had assessed the many of Australia's worst criminals and his experience had earned him a shining reputation for
00:48:03
correctly forecasting the outcome of criminal cases based on his experience into knowledge he predicted all three
00:48:12
Beaumont children were dead and to that killer was a psychopath or some on the borderline mental illness and two
00:48:18
perverted tendencies dr. McGeorge depicted the children's killer as a reserved person with limited
00:48:25
intelligence and few friends who likely lived in a boarding house or with elderly parents by a stone 1966 Jim and
00:48:36
Nancy Bowman refused to give up hope that their children were alive they kept their home perfectly intact wanting to
00:48:44
keep everything exactly as it had been the day the children left everything from the backyard swing set to the kids
00:48:51
books toys and the box awaited their return even the girls straw school hats hung expectantly on their usual hooks in
00:48:59
the hallway through their despair Jim Minton E&C remained optimistic that their children had been abducted by
00:49:07
someone who was keeping them alive and well there had been reports throughout Australia of desperate childless couples
00:49:14
attempting to kidnap children to raise as their own so the prospect of the Beaumont children being alive wasn't
00:49:21
completely without merit Nancy Beaumont told a reporter quote they can't have just vanished off the
00:49:30
face of the earth nobody can do that we go over and over it between ourselves and to the logical thing seems to be
00:49:38
that someone has them it could be a friend or someone we have never met if they had got into a stranger's car it
00:49:46
would only have been because the younger two children had talked to Jane into it
00:49:50
[Music] September 1966 marked seven months since the Berlin children vanished without a
00:50:01
trace on September 27 Senior Constable Ron grows was attempting to make a call to police headquarters in Melbourne from
00:50:09
his police station in conniver a small Victorian town 25 kilometers east of the South Australian border as he waited for
00:50:18
the call to connect his line became crossed with a conversation occurring between two females Senior Constable
00:50:26
grows heard one of the women say we're bringing the Beaumont kids back from Hobart and we are tired and think it's
00:50:35
time to give up convinced the call was authentic grows reported the conversation to the Victorian Homicide
00:50:44
Squad who quickly notified South Australian authorities upon hearing news of the phone call Jim and Nancy Beaumont
00:50:52
thought it was the strongest lead there had been since their children's disappearance months prior and quickly
00:50:57
clung to hopes that the call was genuine Jim behrman drove 320 kilometres to conniver to speak to Senior Constable
00:51:06
wrong grows in person and was told the exclusive brethren a subset of the Christian evangelical movement were
00:51:14
active in the remote areas around conniver this information sparked to Jim's attention as rumors had been
00:51:21
circulating that a religious sect could be holding his children captive Nancy Beaumont made a heartfelt play on
00:51:30
television news quote please whoever you are please listen with your heart I feel
00:51:38
that in different ways you have been kind to our children but I beg you show a greater kindness by letting them come
00:51:45
home the suspicious call ever heard by Senior Constable Ron gross was successfully
00:51:53
traced a few days later the two women on the other line were identified and clarified to police they had been
00:52:01
talking about the Beaumont case before switching the conversation to an unrelated topic regarding some other
00:52:07
children that they knew police were satisfied the women were being truthful and had nothing to do with the Beaumont
00:52:15
case quickly eliminating them from the investigation 1966 was a big year for Australian news
00:52:28
Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies retired after 17 years in the top office to be replaced by Harold Hope Australia
00:52:37
made the move to the decimal currency system with the Australian dollar replacing the pre-existing Australian
00:52:43
pound Japan replaced the Great Britain as Australia's largest trading partner an assassination attempt was taken out
00:52:52
on Labour Party leader Arthur Calwell entertainment and sporting venues were allowed to trade on Sundays for the
00:52:59
first time as these stories dominated national headlines and prong times the unsolved case of the missing Beaumont
00:53:07
children was a vastly overshadowed something big needed to happen to prevent the case from fading into
00:53:13
obscurity Jim and Nancy Berlin had already been approached by many self-proclaimed spiritualists who
00:53:22
claimed to know the whereabouts of their children one such spiritualist the claim
00:53:27
to tow ever saved a vision of the children buried in a grave at the bottom of a cliff in the beachside suburb of
00:53:33
Marino nine kilometres south from Glen elk his premonition promptly sparked a police search of the suspected saw but
00:53:43
nothing was found in a bid to help solve the mystery an employee of South Australian newspaper the advertiser
00:53:51
wrote a letter to famed dutch clairvoyant Gerrard Chrisette asking for his assistance to help locate the
00:53:58
missing Beaumont children Cosette who claimed to have started receiving psychic missions during his
00:54:05
adolescence had earned a reputation in the Netherlands for assisting police in solving murders and missing person cases
00:54:12
his fame had spread throughout Europe into the United States and his help was sought in many high-profile criminal
00:54:19
cases from his home in Holland Creuset responded to the newspaper employees letter stating he believed the Beaumont
00:54:29
children had been involved in a tragic accident unrelated to foul play he said they could have been playing
00:54:36
innocently when something around him collapsed causing them to lose a battle against sand or water cruisers visions
00:54:44
revealed the children's bodies were lying on a stretch of open land not too far from the sea about half a mile from
00:54:51
where they were last seen he requested to be sent photographs of Glenelg and Assyrians in order to determine exactly
00:54:58
where the Bomont children were located Croix Jets interest in the Beaumont children was the fresh group needed to
00:55:07
bring the case back into the media spotlight word of Cruz's vision was quickly published by the advertiser with
00:55:14
several other publications reaching out to the Dutch psychic and printing their own take on the story the new media
00:55:22
attention renewed public interest with many members of the public flocking to caves and hollows throughout Glenelg and
00:55:29
at neighbouring coastal areas to search for Jane Eyre and grant based purely on cruisers word upon receipt of
00:55:38
photographs and further information Cruz's visions became more vivid he described thing the three children's
00:55:45
bodies lying in a cave near rocks on the beach with scrubland and a square house to the right hand
00:55:51
side and the shoals are a coral reef in the distance South Australian citizens believed to Girard Cruiser had
00:56:00
identified at the Minda home in Brighton a residential support and education facility for the intellectually disabled
00:56:08
Minda home was located on the coast three kilometres south from the Bauman's property the media quickly entertained
00:56:16
theories that the perpetrator could have been a patient at Minda home who after kidnapping and killing the Beaumont
00:56:23
children buried them on the foreshore in front of the Mandir grounds from his home in Holland crews had
00:56:32
advised that allowed citizens they were on the right track and encouraged them to keep digging front-end loaders were
00:56:39
brought into Mendes coastal boundary to remove tons of sand and soil but the excavation revealed nothing and the D
00:56:47
key became a public embarrassment in November 1966 two prominent Adelaide businessman funded a trip to bring
00:57:00
psychic Gerard Cruiser to Australia ten months had passed since the disappearance of the Beaumont children
00:57:07
and it was believed that croix Jets physical presence in the key locations from where they had vanished would
00:57:13
strengthen his psychic abilities and help lead authorities to Jane Anna and grant one donor was Barry Blackwell of
00:57:22
Brighton car company Midway motors who had already made several generous contributions to the bone on
00:57:28
investigation including a significant boost to the reward money the other donor was calm polite ease a self-made
00:57:36
Adelaide property tycoon who relished being in the limelight given the amount of contact to Jim and Nancy Beaumont had
00:57:44
received from self-proclaimed psychics the couple were skeptical about Cruz's claims and were not actively involved in
00:57:52
the efforts to bring the clairvoyant to Australia Gerrard Cruz had agreed to stay in Adelaide for two days and
00:57:59
refused any payment for his involvement in the case he was conducting his search
00:58:04
for the Beaumont children in good faith claiming he was 90 percent sure he would
00:58:09
be able to pinpoint the location of their bodies his arrival in Adelaide prompted a media frenzy that out shown
00:58:17
the arrival of British rock and roll band The Beatles two years earlier a crowd of 2,000 people greeted Cruz
00:58:25
about Adelaide Airport including 30 reporters and cameramen with anticipation running higher that he
00:58:31
would finally solve the mystery that had been haunting residents for close to a year cruiser was overwhelmed by the
00:58:40
reception saying all he wanted to do was help solve the tragedy and to release the city from fear
00:58:47
the next morning crews that visited Colley Reserve where it was believed to Jane Anna and Grant Beaumont were last
00:58:54
seen he then walked three kilometres along the Glenelg foreshore with a media crew following close behind later crews
00:59:04
that was driven through the streets of Cornell in to past the Minda home which Adelaide residents had pinpointed as the
00:59:10
location he had envisioned in previous psychic visions despite previous large-scale were digs of the area
00:59:18
proving fruitless upon his arrival to the area Perez at claimed he was now very close to finding their children the
00:59:27
next day he searched a vacant blocks of land without uncovering any evidence before complaining that too many people
00:59:33
were following him and all the attention was weakening his psychic abilities on his final morning in Adelaide Gerard
00:59:42
Cruzatte held an impromptu press conference to reveal that new information had since come to light
00:59:47
overnight a woman claimed she had heard her children's voices in a disused warehouse near her home in the early
00:59:55
morning hours of January 27 1966 the night the Beaumont children went missing at the time the warehouse was a vacant
01:00:06
having previously been used for brickworks it had since been converted into a joinery company and although
01:00:13
extensive renovations of the building had been conducted in August it was possible that several underground chutes
01:00:20
leading to the old brick kiln still existed cruiser led police and members of the press to a warehouse on Wilton
01:00:29
Avenue in paraná Park less than 500 meters from the Beaumont home believing the children were buried two
01:00:36
to three meters deep in an underground bunker he walked to the northern wall of the warehouse and said this is where
01:00:45
they are buried according to his visions gérard Krawczyk claimed the beaumont children were
01:00:57
afraid to go home in the dark so they huddled for shelter near the empty warehouse the trio was standing on
01:01:04
planks of wood which then caved in causing them to fall underground the floor of the warehouse had since been
01:01:11
concreted meaning the children's bodies were entombed underneath after bestowing
01:01:18
this information Gerrard Cruiser supported the idea of excavating the concrete floor and then promptly he left
01:01:25
the country residents of Adelaide took rosettes word as gospel believing he had uncovered the
01:01:33
final resting place of Jane Anna and grant Bowman under pressure from the public the South Australian government
01:01:41
deliberated whether to dig up the warehouses concrete floor using taxpayer money based on nothing more than a
01:01:47
psychic premonition although Jim and Nancy Beaumont had met with crews at briefly during his visit and appreciated
01:01:55
his interest in the case they were not convinced of his psychic abilities and did not support the dig police
01:02:04
investigated Cruz's claims by researching what the conditions of the old warehouse were like in January of
01:02:10
1966 and determined there was nothing plausible about Cruzatte so-called vision the building owners assured
01:02:19
police all then ground pits were thoroughly inspected before concreting work began and there were no signs
01:02:25
indicating the children had fallen into any in late November 1966 South Australian premier Frank Walsh stated
01:02:35
quote investigations have shown conclusively without a shadow of a doubt that there is no possible chance the
01:02:42
factory is the burial ground of the missing children it was decided that an excavation of the concrete flooring
01:02:51
would not go ahead however the public wasn't convinced of the findings and were certain cruisers visions were
01:02:58
correct a Citizen Action Committee banded together to conduct a public survey in
01:03:05
support of the excavation and raised 7,000 dollars to fund the project the excavation took place the following year
01:03:13
in March 1967 workers demolished 60 feet of the concrete flooring revealing an old staircase a brick kiln a piece of
01:03:23
cloth lolly wrappers lemon peel and two newspapers none of which were found to have had any
01:03:30
relevance to the Beaumont case the remains of Jane Anna and grant were not discovered on behalf of the South
01:03:41
Australian government premier Frank Walsh apologized the Jim and Nancy Bowman for the continued anxiety and
01:03:47
sorrow by the one-year anniversary of the Beaumont children's disappearance their parents were still clinging to the
01:03:58
belief that Jane owner and grant were alive as it was the only thing giving them the energy to carry on
01:04:05
Jim Beaumont continued to grasp under his theory that the children were lured and abducted quote a man or woman or
01:04:15
probably a man and a woman together persuaded them to get into a car and drove them away somewhere
01:04:20
they might told them Nansen dialed in an accident and if they've got them somewhere it would have to be a station
01:04:28
or some isolated place like that my god if they could only see what it's doing Denis it's in me it's no good without
01:04:37
their children not when you have had them I just can't understand the life without my kids there's no point to it
01:04:48
despite Jim and Nancy Bowman's continued hope their children would be returned to
01:04:54
them alive by the two-year anniversary of the disappearance investigators were no closer to uncovering the mystery
01:05:01
emotionally exhausted Jim and Nancy decided to take a step back from the media spotlight after providing one last
01:05:09
in-depth interview they spoke to the press in detail about Jane owner and grant and what they missed most about
01:05:18
the well-behaved sweet-natured children they had always dreamed of having whilst
01:05:22
thanking the South Australian police for their tireless work and praising the community for all the ongoing support
01:05:30
the heartfelt interview ended with Nancy Beaumont response to the question of whether she and Jim would relocate to a
01:05:37
new home for a fresh start Nancy said quote I can't go in case the kiddies come home you see I'm waiting
01:05:47
for them to come back here perhaps someone could drop them at the front gate wouldn't it be dreadful if I were
01:05:54
not here in the days following this interview Jim and Nancy Beaumont was shaken when a letter arrived to their
01:06:04
home signed by their missing daughter Jane written in childlike handwriting the letter read dear Mum and Dad
01:06:14
we are safe so there is no need to worry about us oh we really missed you in the
01:06:20
past two years at the beach on that day we were walking to the bus stop when a man in a car stopped us and asked if we
01:06:27
wanted a ride I said that we did and that is how it all started the men would not let us write before he's the letting
01:06:36
us right now because he saw the article in The Herald tonight and to felt sorry for you both he watched us a lot for
01:06:43
about six weeks and then he did not watch us so much honor and I often talk about you the grant does not remember
01:06:51
you at all after more than two years we have been fed well all the time I as well as honor and grant hope that you
01:06:59
are both well the man said to me just Nia that he will willingly let us go if he will come over
01:07:05
to Victoria to get us as long as you do not call the police in the letter Jane went on to request
01:07:15
that her father come to Dandenong to meet their captor a southeastern suburb in the neighboring state of Victoria 760
01:07:23
kilometers away from the Bowman's home the rendezvous was scheduled to take place at the front of Denton a local
01:07:31
post office at 8:50 a.m. the following Monday February 26 Janey instructed her father to wear a dark coat and white
01:07:40
pants ensuring he would be easily identifiable to their captor she stressed there was a very important that
01:07:47
the police must not be informed Jim and Nancy Beaumont believed the handwriting in a letter bore similarities to that of
01:07:59
James and felt it possible the letter was indeed written by their oldest daughter their major concern was that
01:08:06
Anna's name had been misspelled in the letter using only one end instead of two despite the fact that Jane knew the
01:08:13
correct spelling of her sister's name not wanting to disregard the letter on what could have been a simple spelling
01:08:20
mistake Jim and Nancy contacted the head of the South Australian Homicide Squad Detective Sergeant Stan Swain and to
01:08:28
talk him into helping them organize a secret trip to Dandenong Swain agreed and put the plans in place keeping his
01:08:37
involvement strictly confidential as to not alert the alleged captor to the involvement of law enforcement prior to
01:08:44
his arrival to Denton on Swain called ahead and booked the room at a local hotel where he would stay for the
01:08:50
duration of the scheduled Meetup when making the booking the detective sergeant gave the hotel manager his full
01:08:57
name as there had been some thefts in the Dandenong area recently the owner of the
01:09:04
hotel was wary about letting a complete stranger stay in his establishment to make sure this guest didn't present a
01:09:11
threat he contacted a local police officer to run a background check on the name Stan Swain the local officer
01:09:19
discovered it belonged to a South Australian homicide squad detective who was heavily involved in the Beaumont
01:09:25
case instead of treating this information sensitively the officer then called a reporter at
01:09:31
the melbourne-based Herald newspaper to advise him of Detective Swain surprise appearance in town the Herald newspaper
01:09:41
sent a group of reporters and photographers to the Dandenong region to discreetly scope out the detective
01:09:47
Swain's whereabouts convinced his presence had something to do with the Beaumont case at the same time the news
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newspaper in Adelaide had received a tip-off from someone close to the Beaumont family and sent their own group
01:10:01
of reporters and photographers into state to investigate on the morning of Monday February 26 Jim
01:10:09
Beaumont stood alone at the front of the Dandenong post office has he been instructed to do in the letter from Jane
01:10:16
detective sergeants den Swain was watching discreetly from nearby posing as a window cleaner the telephone rang
01:10:26
inside the den and on post office and to the male caller asked the staff member to inform Jim Beaumont that he was
01:10:33
running late but would be at their designated meeting spot as soon as possible throughout the
01:10:39
day other nearby businesses received calls from the unknown male who instructed employees to relay further
01:10:45
messages to Jim the mysterious man maintained he was still on his way desperate to believe he would be
01:10:53
reunited with his children along last June Beaumont stood in front of the Denton on post office for three days
01:11:00
however there were no signs of Jane Anna grant or the mysterious man dejected Jim
01:11:11
and Nancy returned to Adelaide where two more letters were awaiting them upon their arrival one letter was allegedly
01:11:19
from Jane who said their captor was very disappointed that they brought the police with them to Dandan all the
01:11:25
second letter claimed to be from the captor himself he wrote dear mr. and mrs. Bowman I am terribly sorry that I
01:11:36
could not hand your children back to you when you were in Dandenong but I knew you had detectives with you and to the
01:11:42
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01:11:51
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01:11:58
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01:12:17
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01:17:15
of the missing bone one children and if there are no further letters sent from the person claiming to be Jane Beaumont
01:17:21
or the men alleging to be holding the children captive the constant trauma and heartbreak endured by Nancy and Jim
01:17:29
Beaumont led to their eventual divorce although they maintained a valued friendship thereafter they both moved
01:17:37
away from the family home on Harding Street in Somerton Park leaving behind the crushing hopes that their smiling
01:17:43
children would one day swing open the gate and a walk inside with the media now firmly focused on the
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Vietnam War the disappearance of nine-year-old Jane seven year old owner and four-year-old grant became a distant
01:17:59
memory what was once the biggest criminal investigation in South Australia was now overseen by a single
01:18:07
detective over the years the occasional piece of information related to the case
01:18:13
filtered through and police continued to follow up on all lines of inquiry no matter how speculative but nothing
01:18:20
substantial ever surfaced seven years after they vanished memories of the Burma and children's disappearance
01:18:28
flooded back into the adelaide consciousness as news of a similar abduction made headlines on august 25
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1973 11 year-old er Joanne Ratcliffe escorted four-year-old Kirsty Gordon to the bathrooms doors during a football
01:18:44
match held at Adelaide Oval a large football and cricket stadium on the banks of the Torrens River less than two
01:18:51
kilometres north of the CBD the trip should have taken just a few minutes but 20 minutes later the girl still hadn't
01:19:01
returned to their families the alarm was quickly raised under police were contacted promptly
01:19:07
initiating a full investigation Joanne and Kirsty were last seen by several witnesses struggling with a man who then
01:19:15
dragged the girls out of the oval southern gates the men was described as being of average height with a stooped
01:19:21
posture wearing a wide-brimmed Akoo burst all her horn rimmed glasses gray checkered sports jacket and brown
01:19:29
trousers investigators had learned a lot since the Beaumont case enter now new missing
01:19:36
children cases should no longer be handled conservatively this time abduction and a probable murder were
01:19:43
suspected almost immediately and reported in the media as such yet despite efforts Joanne Ratcliffe enter
01:19:52
Kirsty Gordon were not located nor was the men last seen with them identified the investigation into finding Joey and
01:20:02
Kirstie played out similarly to the Beaumont case in that no evidence was uncovered and to the subsequent search
01:20:09
was bogged down by bogus sightings wild speculations hoaxes and unsubstantiated visions from spiritualists including
01:20:18
input from Gerard Crozier the Dutch clairvoyant whose psychic visions failed to uncover any sign of
01:20:24
the Beaumont children based on witness accounts a watercolor sketch of the man seen abducting Joann and Kirsty was
01:20:33
drawn up and widely circulated similarities were immediately drawn to the sketch of the unknown man seen in
01:20:40
Kaali reserved with the Beaumont children just before they vanished in 1966 both sketches depicted a
01:20:48
middle-aged man with a long lean face and well-defined bone structure Peter Alexander from the Police Association of
01:20:58
South Australia later said quote there is a big chance these two crimes are linked this type of offender this type
01:21:07
of killer you just can't get a handle on even on a worldwide basis these are extraordinary crimes the psychology and
01:21:16
supreme confidence of the guy is astounding one group of children taken from a crowded Beach the other from a
01:21:23
crowded sporting field both in broad daylight by the late 1970s and early eighties
01:21:34
South Australia was once again struck by a spate of horrific abductions and murders five young men went missing over
01:21:42
those years their bodies were later found in various locations throughout Adelaide police
01:21:48
believed a network of sadistic pedophiles were responsible for the crimes men who held prominent positions
01:21:55
within Adelaide society as the perpetrators were suspected to go to great lengths to prevent one another
01:22:02
from being detected the brutal slayings were dubbed the family murders in November 1984 Adelaide accountant
01:22:12
Bevan Spencer von Arnim was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 15 year
01:22:17
old Richard Kelvin the fifth family murders victim in 1990 the details of a committal hearing held prior to Bevan
01:22:27
Spencer of an item's murder trial were released to the media after a series of suppression orders were lifted a Crown
01:22:35
witness identified only as mr. BAE who had previously partnered with von einem in drugging and assaulting male
01:22:41
hitchhikers had testified at the hearing mr. B told the court that von einem had
01:22:48
confessed to committing at least 210 murders including the deaths of the Berlin children von einem had admitted
01:22:55
to abducting the Bomont children before connecting them up and performing some quote brilliant surgery on them after
01:23:05
one of the children died he killed the other two and dumped the bodies that either my ponga or marijuana two areas
01:23:12
are located on the southern coast of adelaide von einem also mentioned that he had picked up two children at the
01:23:20
football as in the case of a Joe Ian rackleff and Kirsty Gordon despite these alleged confessions many aspects
01:23:29
spotlighting Bevan Spencer von einem as a suspect in the Beaumont case didn't add up
01:23:35
although he's build a match for that of the man last seen with the Beaumont children von einem had only been 20
01:23:41
years old at the time of their disappearance this was much younger than witness descriptions who consistently
01:23:48
reported the man last seen with the children as being middle-aged in his 30s or early 40s the Beaumont children also
01:23:56
didn't fit the profile of on items preferred victims who were typically males in their teens and early 20s Bevan
01:24:06
Spencer von Arnim denied any involvement in the abductions of the Beaumont children or Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirsty
01:24:12
Gordon however speculation of his involvement in the Beaumont children's disappearance was reignited when reports
01:24:21
a later circulated that spectator resembling a young von einem was caught in the background of archived
01:24:27
in news footage watching as police divers searched the paddle along a boat Haven as killers have been known to
01:24:36
return to the scene of their crime to wear the relive their fantasies or check on police progress it was speculated
01:24:43
that von einem was exhibiting textbook criminal behavior an expert in forensic facial mapping compared the images of
01:24:52
the spectator to that of a young von einem and concluded there were considerable differences between the
01:24:58
pair's facial structures the von einem look-alike was determined to be just that a look-alike nevertheless Bevan
01:25:10
Spencer von Arnim was not ruled out as a suspect in the Beaumont case following mr. BAE's allegations South Australian
01:25:18
police turned to their investigations to the Mike Luongo reservoir the location von einem told mr. B he had dumped the
01:25:25
bodies of the three children On February 2 1990 police divers from the underwater
01:25:33
recovery unit arrived to the Florio Peninsula 60 kilometres south from Adelaide to conduct a search of the my
01:25:41
ponga reservoir the major undertaking presented multiple challenges as the reservoir held 28,800 mega litres of
01:25:50
water with the depth of 100 metres in some places making it difficult for divers to reach the bottom before
01:25:57
decompression stops were needed the water also contained fine silt that significantly reduced the visibility and
01:26:06
tons of accumulated silt would have gathered over the years since the children went missing effectively
01:26:12
burying any remains police revealed they were searching for bodies but refused to
01:26:19
comment on whether it was those of the missing bone on children days of searching failed to uncover any remains
01:26:26
enter the search was eventually caught off a month later police confirmed suspicions that they had indeed been
01:26:34
searching for the remains of the Beaumont children as well as those of Kirsty Gordon and Joann rackleff but
01:26:41
nothing had been found another massive and devastating setback to the Beaumont case occurred in 1992 advances in
01:26:53
fingerprint technology presented the opportunity to test the fingerprints found on the handwritten letters
01:26:58
supposedly penned by Jane Bowman and her captor back in 1968 the letters that prompted g-men to Nancy Beaumont to
01:27:07
travel to Dandenong in Victoria with the false hopes of being reunited with their
01:27:12
children testing of the fingerprints revealed the author of the letters to be a 41 year old man from Victoria when
01:27:22
confronted by police the Victorian man had admitted he had originally written the letters as a teenage prank which had
01:27:28
quickly spiraled out of hand he had since expressed the great remorse for his immature behavior regretting the
01:27:36
hoax in his out of years police determined the men had absolutely no involvement in the Beaumont children's
01:27:43
disappearance and he was promptly eliminated as a suspect given the amount of torn that had elapsed and his age at
01:27:51
the time of the : no charges were ever filed against him as the 1990s came to an end another
01:28:02
person of interest was named in the Beaumont case Arthur Stanley Browne in 1998 Browne was charged with the 1970
01:28:13
murders of sisters Judith and Susan Mackay aged five and seven in his home town of Townsville Queensland Bryan
01:28:22
managed to avoid detection for the murders for almost 30 years after his eventual arrest
01:28:29
Arthur Brown's photograph was widely circulated in newspapers and television reports nationwide jogging the memory of
01:28:36
a witness to the 1973 abduction of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirsty Gordon who identified Brown as the
01:28:43
girls that doctor even in his older years Brienne bore haunting similarities to the identikit sketches and witness
01:28:51
descriptions of the suspect right down to the wide brimmed a kübra style heart and horn rimmed glasses he often wore
01:28:59
although brown was settled in Queensland he had frequently traveled interstate for work and it was possible he had
01:29:06
passed through South Australia over the years as the sketch of Joanne and be cursed his abductor has been widely
01:29:15
compared to that of the man last seen with the Beaumont children Brown was considered a suspect for both crimes by
01:29:24
the time he was arrested for the Mackay sisters murders 86 year old Arthur Brown
01:29:28
was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and dementia and determined unfit for trial he was therefore released to live
01:29:36
out the remainder of his life in a nursing home without ever facing trial for the 45 charges which had arisen
01:29:42
since his arrest including rape murder sodomy and deprivation of Liberty he died in 2004 legally as an innocent man
01:29:57
in May 2004 convicted child killer Derrick Ernest Percy was named as yet another potential suspect in the
01:30:05
Beaumont case first he was convicted in 1969 for the abduction and murder of 12 year old Yvonne tui from a beach in
01:30:14
Victoria he was found not guilty due to reasons of insanity but was held in custody indefinitely police suspected
01:30:24
Percy could have been involved in up to nine unsolved crimes related to missing or murdered children throughout
01:30:30
Australia during the 60s this included the unsolved Wanda beach murders covered further in Episode one
01:30:37
of case file a collection of personal Diaries and drawings written and illustrated by Derrick Percy detailed
01:30:46
disturbing torture fantasies the boss striking similarities to real crimes committed against children that had
01:30:53
occurred prior to his arrest strengthening the suspicion he was far more prolific when questioned about his
01:31:03
involvement in other unsolved crimes Percy told police he believed he was in Adelaide at the time the Beaumont
01:31:09
children went missing but insisted he had no memory of anything else even if Percy's memory was correct he
01:31:18
was just 17 years old in 1966 much too young to be the men witnessed in the company of the Beaumont children police
01:31:27
have also been unable to determine whether Percy had access to a car at the time of the children's disappearance
01:31:33
which investigators presumed would have been necessary to facilitate a quick getaway the reliability of Percy's
01:31:42
claims was one of contention given the fact he had been deemed legally insane in July 2013
01:31:52
Derrick Percy died without providing any deathbed confessions that many were hoping for leaving members of law
01:31:59
enforcement and many grieving families including the Bowman's with the audience's at the turn of the new
01:32:10
millennium the truth of what happened to the Beaumont children remained unknown but the list of suspects potentially
01:32:16
involved in their disappearance continued to grow in the 2000s convicted child killer James Ryan O'Neal became
01:32:26
the subject of the ABC documentary titled the fisherman journey into the mind of a killer O'Neil was charged in
01:32:35
1971 for the abduction and sexual assault of four young boys in Victoria but skipped bail fled the state and
01:32:43
changed his name four years later in 1975 he was located in Tasmania where he was arrested and later convicted for the
01:32:54
abduction and murder of nine-year-old Tasmanian boy Ricky Smith during production of the documentary
01:33:03
O'Neil developed the friendly rapport with his interviewer former Victorian police detective Gordon Davey after
01:33:11
spending three years getting to know the convicted killer for his documentary Davy suspected O'Neill could have been
01:33:17
involved in several other missing children cases including the Beaumont children O'Neill denied having ever
01:33:25
visited Adelaide but his work in the opal industry put him in the South Australian mining town of Coober Pedy up
01:33:32
to 15 times throughout the late 60s and early 70s a trip that facilitated a stopover in Adelaide to return to his
01:33:41
hometown in Melbourne as Davie interviewed O'Neill's former acquaintances the retired detective
01:33:48
learned from multiple sources that O'Neill had boasted about being responsible for the death of the three
01:33:54
Beaumont children Davies suspected O'Neill could have taken the children all the way to coober
01:34:00
pedy 846 kilometres north of Adelaide where he then dumped their bodies down an abandoned Des Moines shaft Davie took
01:34:09
his information to South Australian police who subsequently interviewed O'Neill but ultimately ruled him out as
01:34:15
a suspect yet another two suspects in the Beaumont case were uncovered when allegations
01:34:24
made by the adult children of Adelaide businessman Alan Maxwell McIntyre were heavily publicized in 2007 McIntyre's
01:34:33
children who had publicly accused their father of being an incestuous pedophile claimed that he along with business
01:34:40
colleague and former scout master Anthony Monroe went to Glenn old Beach on Australia Day in 1966 when the two
01:34:49
men returned home they were both visibly agitated McIntyre's children claimed sand and blood were visible in Monroe's
01:34:57
car and professed to seeing the bodies of three children in the boot of the vehicle police investigated these
01:35:06
shocking claims but ultimately cleared Owen Maxwell McIntyre and Anthony Monroe of any involvement in the Beaumont
01:35:13
children's disappearance yet McIntyre himself later admitted that there was partial truth to the allegations during
01:35:22
an exclusive interview with Adelaide newspaper the advertiser McIntyre vindicated himself and pinned to the
01:35:29
entire crime on his friend Anthony Munroe alleging that on Australia Day 1966 Munroe arrived at his property with
01:35:37
three bodies in the back of his car McIntyre described Munroe as quote one of the most evil pieces of work that
01:35:46
ever drew breath McIntyre continued to deny any personal involvement with the crime up until his death in 2017 that
01:35:58
same year 2017 72 year-old Anthony monroe clinic guilty to 10 unrelated child sex crimes dating back to the 60s
01:36:07
some of which occurred in glenelg during the time period the Beaumont children went missing
01:36:14
Munroe was sentenced to 10 years in prison with a non-parole period of five years and five months and will be
01:36:20
eligible for parole in 2022 at the time of the beaumont children's disappearance
01:36:29
Allen Maxwell McIntyre owned a block of land in the York Peninsula town of Stansbury 200 kilometers west of
01:36:36
Adelaide his children alleged that a sinkhole on this property was filled in just weeks after the Beaumont children
01:36:43
disappeared the police refused to excavate the land due to lack of evidence in 2006 to commemorate the 40th
01:36:56
anniversary of the Beaumont children's disappearance true from author Alan Whitaker released an in-depth book
01:37:02
exploring the case titled searching for the Beaumont children several months after its release
01:37:10
Whitaker received a phone call from a woman named Angela alleging her former father-in-law was responsible for the
01:37:16
abduction and murder of Jane Anna and grant Bowman Allen Juanita remained skeptical over the decades the high
01:37:27
profile mystery had attracted elaborate hoaxes speculation and theories with investigators and journalists weeding
01:37:34
out countless claims from people who believed they even knew the whereabouts of the Beaumont children or the identity
01:37:40
of the trio's killer some of the more outrageous claims included people coming forward claiming to be the grown-up
01:37:48
Beaumont children the nation's desperate need for closure ensured every lead was
01:37:53
investigated but none were substantiated however the information provided by Angela to ellen Whittaker was compelling
01:38:04
as it were authentically with known facts of the case she alleged her ex husband Hayden had once confessed that
01:38:12
his father had something to do with the Beaumont children's disappearance adding that the children were quote in
01:38:19
the pit although she was shocked by the comment at the time angela was unsure what to
01:38:26
make of it Hayden had only recently confided that his father had subjected him to horrific
01:38:32
sexual abuse throughout its childhood and was in an emotionally fragile state it wasn't until the Angela read Allen
01:38:41
winokur's book about the Beaumont case that her gut instincts told her Hayden's allegation might be true in his book
01:38:51
Whitaker explained that on Australia Day 1966 the Beaumont children had paid for
01:38:56
their lunch at wenzels Cates shop using a mysteriously lavish one-pound a note this was one of the cases most
01:39:04
significant clues as it was suspected the money was given to the siblings by someone involved in their disappearance
01:39:11
according to Angela her wealthy former father-in-law was notorious for handing out one-pound notes to his son and his
01:39:18
friends to entice them to go out and play so he could be left alone immediately intrigued Allen Whittaker
01:39:28
informed his research partner Stuart Mullins about Angela's phone call and Mullins dive headfirst into
01:39:34
investigating the allegations the suspect in question was Harry Phipps a millionaire businessman who was regarded
01:39:44
as charming and charismatic in 1966 Phipps lived in glenelg with his wife and teenage son and owned and operated
01:39:52
the Castaway Factory in North Clinton located four kilometres north of his home the Phipps house was located on the
01:40:02
corner of augustow and Sussex streets and me three hundred meters away from both a wenzels cake shop and to the
01:40:08
chain shed in collie reserve where the Beaumont children were last sighted this provided a perfect triangle between the
01:40:16
investigations to key locations and the suspects property in fact the lawns of collie reserve could be seen from the
01:40:24
suspects home and was less than a minute walk away down or Guster Street a residential Road lined with character
01:40:30
homes and pine trees additionally Harry Phipps was aged in his early 40s in 1966 and his appearance
01:40:40
or striking resemblance to the sketch of the man last seen playing with Jane Anna
01:40:44
and gran he was approximately six feet tall with an athletic build long face high forehead and wavy light brown -
01:40:53
blond hair parted to the side as Angela's claims continued to gain merit the investigation was handed over to
01:41:02
private detective bill Hayes a former detective for the South Australian police by the time Angela had implicated
01:41:14
her former father-in-law in the Beaumont children's disappearance Harry Phipps had been deceased for two years having
01:41:21
succumbed to Alzheimers in 2004 nevertheless researcher Stuart Mullins proceeded to look into the life of the
01:41:30
prominent respected businessman to determine whether the accusations against him could be true Mullins
01:41:37
arrived to Glenelg visiting the house behind the collie reserve where Harry Phipps lived until his death the house
01:41:45
now belonged to Phipps 2nd wife during a tour of the house Mullins was taken into
01:41:52
an underground cellar which Phipps had used as his workshop there Mullins caught sight of something sitting on a
01:41:59
shelf there was a white clip top vintage purse in pristine condition the very same kind jane beaumont had left home
01:42:09
with on january 26 1966 unable to take his mind off this bizarre sighting the next day miles returned to the house the
01:42:21
question fits a widow about the purse when he mentioned Janne Berlin had owned that exact type of purse FIPS Widow
01:42:30
became defensive claiming she had bought it from an op shop the previous week this claim struck Mullins as odd given
01:42:38
the woman had inherited millions of dollars from her deceased husband's estate and had no need to buy a cheap
01:42:44
secondhand child's purse Mullins informed police of the discovery but when a detective visited the house days
01:42:53
later to retrieve the purse Phipps widow advised she had thrown it away before threatening Mullins with legal action if
01:43:00
he returned in 2008 Harry Phipps son Hayden agreed to an interview with private investigator bill
01:43:09
Hayes to provide further insight into his allegations that his father had murdered the three Beaumont children
01:43:16
according to Hayden his father was far from the image of charming respectable businessman he
01:43:23
projected but instead her predatory pedophile and abusive alcoholic with a love for guns
01:43:31
Hayden recalled a chilling memory from over 40 years prior occurring on January 26 1966 on that summer's day teenaged
01:43:41
Hayden was smoking cigarettes in a cubby house in the backyard of his family's Glenn old home when he caught sight of
01:43:47
his father walking into the house with three young children in tow they each had short cropped hair the oldest one
01:43:56
was carrying a shoulder bag and all appeared to be lost the three children went inside the FIPS home but never
01:44:05
emerged Payton later saw his father load four large bags into the boot of his car
01:44:10
and drive away when Hayden entered the house the children were nowhere to be seen
01:44:22
Allen Whitaker and Stewart Mullins presented their research into Harry Phipps in a 2013 novel titled the
01:44:30
certain man uncovering the mystery of the missing bone on children the title was inspired by Phipps insatiable sexual
01:44:38
fetish for the silky fabric rather than aiming Harry Phipps out write pseudonyms
01:44:45
were used to protect the identities of the accused and his family in the book Harry Phipps was referred to as Hank
01:44:53
Harrison following the release of the certain man media interest in the new Beaumont case suspect Hank Harrison was
01:45:02
high when channel 7 Current Affair show today tonight aired the story they can to the pseudonyms in exchange for use of
01:45:10
the real name's Harry Phipps was exposed but today tonight revealing Phipps former business as the castaway Factory
01:45:20
in North Clinton had sparked the memory of two brothers who came forward asserting they had been hired by Harry
01:45:27
Phipps to dig a hole at the factory site in 1966 just three days after the beaumont children went missing the
01:45:37
brothers now aged in their 60s with teenagers who lived locally at the time and often picked up odd jobs to earn
01:45:44
extra cash 50 instructed them to dig a hole with the dimensions of one meter wide two
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meters long and two meters deep there was a searing hot weekend and to the factory was closed as Phipps watched
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the brothers closely urging them to dig deeper two days later they were paid handsomely for their work with Phipps
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handing them both one pea under notes when the brothers heard the Castaway factory mentioned on today's annoy they
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were hit with the haunting realization they could have unknowingly dug a grave for the three beaumont children their
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story also corroborated allegations Harry Phipps son Hayden had made to private investigator bill Hayes who said
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his father had buried the children at the industrial saw it Hayden told Hayes quote they are in the sandpit bill
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although police maintained there was no evidence to substantiate allegations made against Harry Phipps in relation to
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the Beaumont children's disappearance they agreed to conduct a search of the Castaway factory saw it the factory had
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changed significantly since 1966 and if the brothers were unable to pinpoint the
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exact location where they had originally dug the hole the one brother believed he
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had a general idea in October 2014 South Australian police used ground penetrating radar to locate
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a small anomaly in the cited area but upon excavation of the one made a square segment of earth nothing was found this
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excavation effort was widely criticized as neither brother was on site during the dig and critics believed the police
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didn't dig deep enough or in the correct spot investigator bill Hayes said quote
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it wasn't anyone's fault it was the geography that had changed when we saw the aerial photos we knew we'd ducked in
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the wrong place in January 2018 South Australian police launched a highly publicized to joint
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investigation with Channel seven and Flinders University to conduct a more thorough excavation of the Castaway
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factory with further assistance from the brothers forensic scientists uncovered an area of disturbed earth approximately
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the size of a grave it had been 52 years since nine-year-old Jane 7 year old Anna
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and 4 year old Grant had mysteriously vanished and expectations across Australia were higher hoping this second
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more thoroughly planned and orchestrated dig would lead to a major breakthrough yet the excavation revealed to nothing
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more than rubbish and a few animal bones major crime detective Superintendent Dez
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Bray said quote we are confident there has been a hole or holes dug here historically into those holes have been
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used for at least a period of time as some sort of tip there's nothing at all that's being located today that's in any
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way connected to the Beaumont children sadly this means for the Beaumont family we still have no answers we will always
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do everything humanly possible to locate the Beaumont children and return them to
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their family as of late 2018 the whereabouts of Jane Anna and grant Beaumont remains unknown
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the investigation into their disappearance is regarded as one of the largest criminal investigations in
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Australian history and holds the tragic legacy has been one of the country's most infamous unsolved mysteries to this
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day a 1 million dollar reward remains on offer for information that leads to the
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truth about what happened to the Beaumont children that summer day in 1966 Jim and Nancy Berman are both aged
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in their nineties and still reside in Adelaide they have not officially spoken to the media in over 40 years and have
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come to terms with the likelihood that they may never learn what happened to their three children
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although presumed murdered if the Beaumont children were still alive today Jane would be 62 years old Anna would be
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59 and the grant would be 57 the sketch of the unknown man seemed plain with the
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Beaumont children a collie reserve remains the only circulating image of the suspected perpetrator no other
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criminal case in Australian history has attracted as many suspects with hundreds
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of people investigated over the years including the most notorious and vials from across the country in February 2018
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South Australian major crime detective Superintendent Dez Bray set up to a dozen potential persons of interest
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could not be excluded by police this list includes Bevan Spencer von einem Arthur Stanley brown Derrick Ernest
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Percy James Ryan O'Neal Anthony Monroe Alan Maxwell McIntyre and Harry Phipps in Australia there are more than 2,000
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long-term missing people and over 500 archived sets of unidentified human remains in June of 2018 Susy Ratcliffe
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the younger sister of Joanne Ratcliffe the eleven-year-old girl abducted from Adelaide Oval in 1973 called for all
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evidence in long-term missing children cases to be urgently retested for DNA like the Beaumont children
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Joanne Radcliffe and Kirsty Gordon have never been found and to their abductor never identified susie rackleff believes
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the remains of her sister could be amongst the unidentified remains along with those of Kirsty Gordon and to the
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Beaumont children Suzie is supported by Rena and forensic scientist dr. Jody ward who once Australia to commit to a
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laboratory dedicated solely to missing persons case worked according to dr. Ward the current capabilities in DNA
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forensics could allow experts to match remains with some of Australia's long-term missing persons cases and
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potentially provide relief to suffering families the unexplained disappearance of the Beaumont children on Australia
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Day in 1966 irreparably shuddered Jim and Nancy Bowman who for years lived in the hopes that Jane honor and grant
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would one day walk through the gates of the family home their loss was felt by the whole nation creating a legacy of
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paranoia and fear that remains to this day the Beaumont story has been a cautionary
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tale for generations providing a stark awakening to the evils that lie in the underbelly of our society January 26
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1966 has been coined as the day Australia lost its innocence with the disappearance of the Beaumont children
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paving the way for a greater awareness of stranger danger the names Jane Anna and grant Bowman have become itched
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into Australian hee and to their legacy will never be forgotten the investigation remains open
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a large collection of candid photographs exhibits the short though carefree lives
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of Jane owner and grant Bowman taken by their parents during holidays and special moments the black-and-white
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images perfectly capture the essence of the Bowman family's idyllic life the photos show the children all smiles as
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they go about their daily lives grant grinning on his tricycle Jane and Donna side-by-side riding the elephant
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cart at the Adelaide Zoo and a Jane carrying her baby brother in a wooden laundry basket in one photograph the
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three inseparable siblings stand together excitedly showing off their loot from the 1965 Royal Adelaide show
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for Jim Bowman these photographs along with letters written by his oldest daughter Jane embody the memory of the
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family who lost the last letter J never wrote to her parents would serve as a constant reminder of the kind caring and
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protective nature of the young girl who would always go to great lengths to shield her younger siblings from harm
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[Music] just days before Australia Day 1966 Jane was proudly babysitting her younger
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siblings while her parents enjoyed a night out with friends before she retired the bed for the night Jane wrote
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her parents a note to fill them in on the events of the evening dear Mum and Dad I am just about to go to bed and the
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time is nine I've put grants nappy on so there is no need to worry about him wetting on the
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sheet grant wanted to sleep in his own bed so one of you will have to sleep with
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honor although you will not find at the rooms in very good condition I hope you'll find of them as comfortable as we
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do good night to you both Jane pay yes I hope you had a very nice time wherever you went
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