The missing Beaumont children

chic said:
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.
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I think he may have been considered a suspect at some point. There were a few stories floating around years later that at least one of the detectives, at that point retired, still firmly believed that the parents were involved in some way. Just rumours of course, no evidence.
 

Leonie said:
I think he may have been considered a suspect at some point. There were a few stories floating around years later that at least one of the detectives, at that point retired, still firmly believed that the parents were involved in some way. Just rumours of course, no evidence.
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I don't want to malign the parents but I am sure those children left that beach with someone they knew and trusted. You can't abduct 3 kids if they don't want to go with you. They'd be screaming and yelling all over the place and since it was Australia day, there would have been plenty of people to listen to them.
 
@Kadee46 Wow! I can't believe the Judge ruled vital information, not admissible.
He must be seriously scared for his life to remain in jail, I think this case has some very long-reaching tenticles.
Hopefully, the creep dies in jail sooner rather than later. :mad: Makes my blood boil.
 

chic said:
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.
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I totally agree, i have been searching to find information on Jim Beaumont, but there seems to be a big blank in this area. Did him and Phipps know eachother? The kids left the bakery and clearly got in a car to vanish so quickly. Was it in fact Jim Beaumonts taxi the kids got in? He arrive home after 3 to find distraught Nancy, telling police he was on a business trip and clients never showed up, well you would not be meeting clients for taxi driving. So what business was he involved in, was he working at Casterloy possibly.
Something does not sit right here
 
chic said:
I don't want to malign the parents but I am sure those children left that beach with someone they knew and trusted. You can't abduct 3 kids if they don't want to go with you. They'd be screaming and yelling all over the place and since it was Australia day, there would have been plenty of people to listen to them.
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Apparently the father was away on a 3 day sales trip to Snowtown so, perhaps, a former taxi driver? Also the children were seen with the unknown man by witnesses who would have recognised him had it been the father.

Disappearance of the Beaumont children - Wikipedia

The Beaumont parents described their children, particularly the eldest (Jane) as shy.[22] For them to be playing so confidently with a stranger seemed out of character. Investigators theorised that the children had perhaps met the man during a previous visit or visits and had grown to trust him.[23] A chance remark at home, which seemed insignificant at the time, supports this theory: Arnna had told her mother that Jane had "got a boyfriend down the beach".[20] Nancy thought she meant a playmate and took no further notice until after the disappearance.[20]​

This ☝️would seem to suggest that the children were being groomed, not something parents would be familiar with then. The guy gained Jane's trust which would have made the other two children feel comfortable with him too.

Harry Phipps' son made allegations about his father but, did witnesses who had seen the man on the beach with the children also identify him as the same man?
 
I lived in Adelaide then. Too young to remember the Beaumont children going missing but I clearly remember the abduction from Adelaide Oval.
There was some speculation it was same abductor.

Terrible for the parents- and even worse for the Beaumont parents was unfounded gossip maligning the parents.

Some of which seems to be repeated on this thread. :(
 
Kadee said:
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
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Something I remember is that Adelaide had a lot of well connected paedophiles who seemed to be above the law. Could be just gossip but somehow, after all the stories of abuse of children, usually boys, from orphanages, I am thinking that the stories are not without some foundation. Murder though is a very different scenario.
 
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oscash said:
All I know is that I wouldn't dream of letting my children get on a bus to go swimming at the local beach without adult supervision.
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That is judging by today's standards - children on a 5 minute bus ride to a lifesaver supervised beach was not out of the ordinary in 1966

and a bit comes under victim bashing - or at least parents of victims bashing.
 
@ Warrigal - yes there was a case of 'The Family' abducting and murdering 5 teenage boys/young men i n the early 1980's - Bevan Spencer Von Einem was convicted and is still in prison, now aged 78 yrs and unlikely to ever be released. - but other suspects were not charged, lack of evidence - but that was long after the disappearance of the Beaumont children - and had no apparent links to it

It is not impossible, and has been speculated, that Bevan was also responsible for the Beaumont children - he would of been 20 years old at the time.
 
There is a lot of info on the internet about what Rachael and Richard and other MCIntyre siblings went through with their pedophile father and other pedophiles when they were younger, I can understand their frustration with the police in this state and else where, from experience.
I don't think they would risk their lives naming high profile people if they were not speaking the truth.

Time To Face The Music on Multiple Fronts of Injustice, South Australia
 
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