The missing Beaumont children

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Fifty-four years ago Australia lost its innocence, on what was meant to be a day of celebration.

Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont, aged nine, seven and four, respectively, were lured from Glenelg Beach in Adelaide by an unknown assailant.

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Like they had many times before, they caught the bus to the beach unsupervised, with sensible Jane Beaumont tasked with ensuring the younger children’s safety.

Such an arrangement may seem akin to child neglect today, but it wasn’t uncommon in 1966. The bus trip was only five minutes, Australia was regarded as a safe place to raise children, and many kids in neighbourhoods across the country enjoyed a free range upbringing.

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The disappearance of the Beaumont children and the widespread coverage it received changed all that. Stranger danger was the new normal, and tight communities eyed each other nervously, former neighbours now potential suspects. The Australian way of life had forever changed.

Despite the story of the Beaumont children remaining in the country’s collective consciousness for more than half a century, the three children have never been found, and the identity of the 30-something slim man who was spotted with the children that day by numerous onlookers remains a mystery.

 

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Aunt Marg said:
Stomach-turning sickness, that's what I'm feeling right now.
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They did nothing to investigate these neighbors. The police department have their paychecks a huge problem with all these powered jobs. Abuse of authority is a major issue here in usa along with the other countries saying lets be positive please with all these hush hush cold cases. Look at where they all live much better than many that are subjected to these government systems to controlling peoples rights to know the workings of shut in the back shelf cold cases so they can go home and eat
...ashamed of the system that grow jobs for people to brush these cases under the rug never convicting because the need to go home at the end of the day while being paid to tell us they have no countability themselves
They will never be fired so in the nursing club of and banks too. Only speaking from experience....
 
Autumn72 said:
They did nothing to investigate these neighbors. The police department have their paychecks a huge problem with all these powered jobs. Abuse of authority is a major issue here in usa along with the other countries saying lets be positive please with all these hush hush cold cases. Look at where they all live much better than many that are subjected to these government systems to controlling peoples rights to know the workings of shut in the back shelf cold cases so they can go home and eat
...ashamed of the system that grow jobs for people to brush these cases under the rug never convicting because the need to go home at the end of the day while being paid to tell us they have no countability themselves
They will never be fired so in the nursing club of and banks too. Only speaking from experience....
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Like yourself, Autumn72, I question a lot, too, and I definitely think the same as you do.

The ones that shine-through all of the turmoil and obscurity (for me), are the ones where a detective comes along that sat on the case for years, and in some circumstances, decades, never feeling satisfied that all stones were turned, and they set forth with a renewed effort to dig into the past once again from the very beginning, backtracking every step taken in order to try and solve the case.

Seems there are few dedicated detectives that fall into that bracket or category.
 
The missing Beaumont children is a very sad case , they will never be forgotten .I believe their mother passed away last year never knowing what happened to her children
I live about a 2 hour drive from Adelaide where they went missing , and like all cities things change quite allot there’s several blocks of appartments on the shores of where they went missing at Glenelg now
 
This is a terrible thought but what about their father, Jim Beaumont as a suspect. It's hard to kidnap three small children. One of them is bound to struggle or scream or kick up a fuss and attract attention. The man who took them must have been someone they knew? Jim Beaumont had been a taxi driver but around the time of the disappearance he was away on a business trip but told police his clients never showed up. I would like to know more about this but cannot find the information. What kind of business was he in since leaving taxi driving?

Jim was the first one to report to police the kids were missing. He also stayed close to police investigations. OK he was the father, but if he had been the perpetrator as well maybe he stayed close to the police investigation to keep up with what they were discovering or even to mislead or derail the investigation?

I can't think of a motive for him to kill his kids but stranger things have happened. Would love to know more but it's so hard to get info on such an old cold case with no bodies.
 
Another Missing Children Tragedy in Adelaide was Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon

Joanne Ratcliffe was just 11-years-old when she went missing from Adelaide Oval in 1973.
“Mum said a nasty man had taken Joanne away before I was born,” Suzie tells New Idea.

Joanne was just 11 years old when she and Kirste Gordon, 4, went missing from Adelaide Oval after going to the toilet together during a football game in 1973.

Now 47 years on, the disappearance of the two youngsters has become one of the most mysterious missing persons cases in our country’s history.

It’s a story that makes you hug your kids a bit tighter and a nightmare that has shattered the Ratcliffe family.
 
peramangkelder said:
Another Missing Children Tragedy in Adelaide was Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon

Joanne Ratcliffe was just 11-years-old when she went missing from Adelaide Oval in 1973.
“Mum said a nasty man had taken Joanne away before I was born,” Suzie tells New Idea.

Joanne was just 11 years old when she and Kirste Gordon, 4, went missing from Adelaide Oval after going to the toilet together during a football game in 1973.

Now 47 years on, the disappearance of the two youngsters has become one of the most mysterious missing persons cases in our country’s history.

It’s a story that makes you hug your kids a bit tighter and a nightmare that has shattered the Ratcliffe family.
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If only we had the security cameras around then we have now it may have saved the many children who were abducted in the 60& 70 ‘ when you think of it we had allot go missing in Adelaide. @peramangkelder
 
There was a group of Pedophile s taking young men in Adelaide in-the 70’s & 80’s
only one man was arrested in connection with the crimes who refused to say who else was involved in horrendous crimes. It became known as “The family murders“ however none of the young men who were abducted /tortured killed were related .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_Murders

,he still in prison although I believe he’s been eligible to apply for parole for a long time he never applied for parole……..Why is he afraid 😱 to be out in the public ?
I believe he’s in a county town prison called Port Augusta about a 4 hour drive north of Adelaide where he will stay till he dies

One of the boys abducted / killed by these CREEPS was the son of a TV news reader Rob Kelvin
https://crimestopperssa.com.au/medi...n-the-abduction-and-murder-of-richard-kelvin/
 

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