Unsolved The Beaumont Children

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Regardless of the credibility you afford the SatinMan Universe storyline, there are some interesting asides in this. The author indicates that he's related to Mostyn Matters (cousin) and the Wenzels Bakery witness (Matters' wife's aunt). "Everybody knew everybody else*" before the storyline dependent on nobody recognising Harry resumes.

*paraphrased, not verbatim
that's pretty interesting. Adelaide was just a big town back then.
 
I'm not sold on the Phipps Theory,living a few hundred metres from the beach & the fact he was a regular at Glenelg would have made him recognisable to local eyeballs & put him under the microscope straight away unless he was protected due to being wealthy & seemingly well connected
I am of the same opinion. I do keep my mind open. I have doubts, that him being a well known business man, would have taken that risk. I believe that family may protect their own, but it is doubtful that people outside that immediate circle would protect a person who has taken and killed three young children.
 

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that's pretty interesting. Adelaide was just a big town back then.
Newcastle was much the same, probably still is. Adelaide has the reputation it does, because Newcastle police fooled around and fumbled so badly for so long, that a heap of missing person cases had gone ice cold before it became apparent that there were at least two, possibly three serial killers operating in the area in the 70s and 80s. And that's assuming each was operating alone. Add in some solved and semi-solved cases with serious question marks hanging over them, and unexplained deaths that haven't been treated as homicides, and it's a really ugly picture. Quite an impressive church on the hill, too.
There are probably other, smaller cities with similar history. Between the Beaumonts, Adelaide Oval, Family murders and several Newcastle cases, a royal commission might be the only way available to discover and semi-officially convict what are now probably dead perpetrators, and perhaps a few live ones, of a fairly large number of crimes against children and young adults.
 
We don't know for sure that he was. The children were definitely in one location that day - Somerton Park. A preponderance of witness statements makes it highly probable they were in Glenelg. (edit: Near home) at Harding Street, Somerton Park as their intended destination after Glenelg is a possible final location for the day.

It's entirely possible, based on Arnna's "boyfriend" comment to her mum, that the guy they were mostly seen with at the beach (sketch guy) was doing nothing more sinister than amusing the kids his son played with the day before, dropped them near home, and the Adelaide Oval guy stepped in. Multiple-child abductions are too rare to expect different perpetrators in one city. Working backward from that, Mary Hattam in Ceduna, 1958 also looks possible. Police were too focused on hanging an Indigenous man to ever seriously attempt to find out who actually did that to her. That might be a motivator behind a January 26 abduction. If he's on a 7-1/2 year cycle, his previous murders were probably in Korea, WWII before that. He's probably hidden away somewhere in the death notices by 1981.

The rest of what you described are fairly normal human reactions. And you could be right. I really hope you are, he deserved some serious anxiety at the very least in the absence of consequences. Until we've got a set of bones and a diary confessional leading to them, we don't really know if the abductor and probable murderer had anything like normal human reactions. I was preyed upon from a young age by a number of people, primarily a pedophile whose father was a cop, then others with probable connections to him and his network. He wasn't seriously prosecuted until his dad died. He routinely, publicly taunted adult survivors, operating with a level of confidence in impunity his familial connections afforded him. Even in a court room full of people who wanted his blood, he said "I thought they enjoyed it". The perpetrator probably won't have normal human reactions, and probably will have either some close connection to power, or a previous comfortable escape from consequences reinforcing his behaviour - possibly both.
Very interesting read . Yes you are correct, there are places where
With your person of interest. Is there anybody still alive that could have seen him leave the sideshow area?
Possibly. I spent many days trying to find out who they were. I have names and know roughly where they lived, but they are proving hard to locate, if in fact they are alive.
 

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The family of missing Beaumont children calls for coronial inquest as part of Seven’s new true crime show The Hunters​




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Mr Jim Beaumont with his children Grant, Arnna and Jane at Rudall, SA, in May 1965. (Copyright unknown)

Mr Jim Beaumont with his children Grant, Arnna and Jane at Rudall, SA, in May 1965. (Copyright unknown)
Grant (Jim) Beaumont with his wife Nancy, parents of SA missing Beaumont children Jane with Arnna and Grant.


Harry Phipps.

Harry Phipps.
Jane, Arnna and Grant Beaumont.

Jane, Arnna and Grant Beaumont.
A 2018 excavation at the Castalloy factory, North Plympton, in connection with the SA Police investigation into the disappearance of the three Beaumont children. Picture: Greg Higgs.

A 2018 excavation at the Castalloy factory, North Plympton, in connection with the SA Police investigation into the disappearance of the three Beaumont children.

A new investigation by Seven series The Hunters has uncovered information suggesting the two prior digs were conducted in the wrong location at the factory site.
Veteran police officer and show co-host Steve Van Aperen said he hoped the episode, set to air on Channel 7 on February 23, will encourage police to conduct a third excavation at the Castalloy factory, and eventually force a coronial inquest.
“I’d like to see a dig in the right locality,” said Mr Van Aperen, a behavioural expert who previously worked for the FBI.
Inside the lives of the Beaumont children
 
Please, oh please, let this new dig(s) be the end of this nonsensical Phipps yarn. I'm astonished so many people have swallowed this giant red herring so readily, just because a book says so; a book where the authors block any negative opinions and feedback. Oh, wait though; let's not get too excited in case they dig in the wrong place and it all starts again. My opinion only.
 
Please, oh please, let this new dig(s) be the end of this nonsensical Phipps yarn. I'm astonished so many people have swallowed this giant red herring so readily, just because a book says so; a book where the authors block any negative opinions and feedback. Oh, wait though; let's not get too excited in case they dig in the wrong place and it all starts again. My opinion only.
In the time this has been playing out, at least two houses - one near the Beaumonts' home, possibly vacant at the time (owner died July '65) and another owned at the time by someone who seems likely to have worked with Stan Hart - were knocked down and larger houses built in their place. Evidence could have been destroyed as easily as unearthed. Not quite as impressive as the "wow factor" of a one pound note, or a hole dug over two days of a heatwave that may have been the one ran from the 25th to 27th, and the people who could have terminated the Phipps story (Elizabeth, Haydn and Angela) all died in the same period, but finding nothing at Castalloy again should be really helpful. My opinion only.
 
The dig is just theatre to set the stage for the next sequel of the satin man books

I haven't read the books, so I'm curious; where does the supposed 'knowledge' of the correct location actually come from? They claim the police dug in the wrong spot, but what's the basis of their determination on that? Like what makes them so certain about where the right and wrong places are?
 
The dig is just theatre to set the stage for the next sequel of the satin man books

I haven't read the books, so I'm curious; where does the supposed 'knowledge' of the correct location actually come from? They claim the police dug in the wrong spot, but what's the basis of their determination on that? Like what makes them so certain about where the right and wrong places are?
They're saying they need to go deeper (ABC News tonight) and calling it new information.

I'm really excited to find out what Harry barbecued in 1852. We might finally find out who killed the thylacine.
 

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