The Beaumont Kids lived in Adelaide, Australia in the 1960s.
Their house on Harding Street was minutes away from the popular beach resort of Glenelg, a tourist hotspot home to numerous attractions, hotels and restaurants.
Like many other Adelaide residents, the children were fond of the beach at Glenelg and perhaps due to the innocence of the period and the maturity of Jane, their parents had no qualms about them visiting on their own, as long as they took the 5 minute bus ride from their house to the resort.
On 26th of January, 1966, the children left the house at 10am and were never seen by their parents again.
Eye witness statements confirmed that the children at least arrived at their destination as they were spotted at the beach with a tall blonde man.
The children appeared to be in no distress and were reportedly enjoying themselves in his company.
The eldest child, Jane, was also seen buying a meat pie from a beachside shop with a £1 note.
This seemed odd, however, as not only had the children never bought such an item in any of their previous trips, their parents had not given them this amount of money upon departing the house earlier on in the day.
The final confirmed sighting of the children was by a postman at 3pm that day.
The postman knew the children well and stopped to talk to them.
He reported that although they were heading in the general direction of their house, they did not seem to be in any sort of hurry or concerned that they were already 3 hours late.
A creepy footnote in the case is the fact that, prior to their disappearance, Arnna had told her mother that Jane had gotten a ‘boyfriend' down at the beach.
The mother, understandably, assumed this to be a young playmate, but in hindsight it supported the theory that the children had encountered their abductor at least once before.
There are numerous suspects for the murder of the Beaumont children, although none have ever been proven guilty.
The strongest of these suspects is Bevan Spencer von Einem, an apparent member of a high society gentlemen's club, who kidnapped and murdered numerous Australian children in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Von Einem is currently serving a life-sentence for the murder of an Adelaide teenager in 1984, and a credible witness (known only as ‘B' to conceal his identity in the 1984 trial) told the police that he had also admitted to the murders of the Beaumont children.
Police have been unable to prove this but von Einem would have fit the eyewitness descriptions in 1966, and was also known to frequent Glenelg.
Mr. B said that Von Einem had also told him that he had picked up the Beaumont children at Glenelg Beach on 26 January, 1966.
Von Einem had told him that he went to the beach regularly to have a perve on people in the showers and had picked up three children and had performed some "brilliant surgery on them" and that he had "connected them up" and one had died.
Von Einem said that he had dumped the childrens' bodies at Moana or Myponga, south of Adelaide.
Mr. B also said that Von Einem told him that he had also picked up two children at a football match and killed them.
Mr. B said that Von Einem didn't elaborate any further.
Their house on Harding Street was minutes away from the popular beach resort of Glenelg, a tourist hotspot home to numerous attractions, hotels and restaurants.
Like many other Adelaide residents, the children were fond of the beach at Glenelg and perhaps due to the innocence of the period and the maturity of Jane, their parents had no qualms about them visiting on their own, as long as they took the 5 minute bus ride from their house to the resort.
On 26th of January, 1966, the children left the house at 10am and were never seen by their parents again.
Eye witness statements confirmed that the children at least arrived at their destination as they were spotted at the beach with a tall blonde man.
The children appeared to be in no distress and were reportedly enjoying themselves in his company.
The eldest child, Jane, was also seen buying a meat pie from a beachside shop with a £1 note.
This seemed odd, however, as not only had the children never bought such an item in any of their previous trips, their parents had not given them this amount of money upon departing the house earlier on in the day.
The final confirmed sighting of the children was by a postman at 3pm that day.
The postman knew the children well and stopped to talk to them.
He reported that although they were heading in the general direction of their house, they did not seem to be in any sort of hurry or concerned that they were already 3 hours late.
A creepy footnote in the case is the fact that, prior to their disappearance, Arnna had told her mother that Jane had gotten a ‘boyfriend' down at the beach.
The mother, understandably, assumed this to be a young playmate, but in hindsight it supported the theory that the children had encountered their abductor at least once before.
There are numerous suspects for the murder of the Beaumont children, although none have ever been proven guilty.
The strongest of these suspects is Bevan Spencer von Einem, an apparent member of a high society gentlemen's club, who kidnapped and murdered numerous Australian children in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Von Einem is currently serving a life-sentence for the murder of an Adelaide teenager in 1984, and a credible witness (known only as ‘B' to conceal his identity in the 1984 trial) told the police that he had also admitted to the murders of the Beaumont children.
Police have been unable to prove this but von Einem would have fit the eyewitness descriptions in 1966, and was also known to frequent Glenelg.
Mr. B said that Von Einem had also told him that he had picked up the Beaumont children at Glenelg Beach on 26 January, 1966.
Von Einem had told him that he went to the beach regularly to have a perve on people in the showers and had picked up three children and had performed some "brilliant surgery on them" and that he had "connected them up" and one had died.
Von Einem said that he had dumped the childrens' bodies at Moana or Myponga, south of Adelaide.
Mr. B also said that Von Einem told him that he had also picked up two children at a football match and killed them.
Mr. B said that Von Einem didn't elaborate any further.
The Beaumont Kids lived in Adelaide, Australia in the 1960s.
Their house on Harding Street was minutes away from the popular beach resort of Glenelg, a tourist hotspot home to numerous attractions, hotels and restaurants.
Like many other Adelaide residents, the children were fond of the beach at Glenelg and perhaps due to the innocence of the period and the maturity of Jane, their parents had no qualms about them visiting on their own, as long as they took the 5 minute bus ride from their house to the resort.
On 26th of January, 1966, the children left the house at 10am and were never seen by their parents again.
Eye witness statements confirmed that the children at least arrived at their destination as they were spotted at the beach with a tall blonde man.
The children appeared to be in no distress and were reportedly enjoying themselves in his company.
The eldest child, Jane, was also seen buying a meat pie from a beachside shop with a £1 note.
This seemed odd, however, as not only had the children never bought such an item in any of their previous trips, their parents had not given them this amount of money upon departing the house earlier on in the day.
The final confirmed sighting of the children was by a postman at 3pm that day.
The postman knew the children well and stopped to talk to them.
He reported that although they were heading in the general direction of their house, they did not seem to be in any sort of hurry or concerned that they were already 3 hours late.
A creepy footnote in the case is the fact that, prior to their disappearance, Arnna had told her mother that Jane had gotten a ‘boyfriend' down at the beach.
The mother, understandably, assumed this to be a young playmate, but in hindsight it supported the theory that the children had encountered their abductor at least once before.
There are numerous suspects for the murder of the Beaumont children, although none have ever been proven guilty.
The strongest of these suspects is Bevan Spencer von Einem, an apparent member of a high society gentlemen's club, who kidnapped and murdered numerous Australian children in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Von Einem is currently serving a life-sentence for the murder of an Adelaide teenager in 1984, and a credible witness (known only as ‘B' to conceal his identity in the 1984 trial) told the police that he had also admitted to the murders of the Beaumont children.
Police have been unable to prove this but von Einem would have fit the eyewitness descriptions in 1966, and was also known to frequent Glenelg.
Mr. B said that Von Einem had also told him that he had picked up the Beaumont children at Glenelg Beach on 26 January, 1966.
Von Einem had told him that he went to the beach regularly to have a perve on people in the showers and had picked up three children and had performed some "brilliant surgery on them" and that he had "connected them up" and one had died.
Von Einem said that he had dumped the childrens' bodies at Moana or Myponga, south of Adelaide.
Mr. B also said that Von Einem told him that he had also picked up two children at a football match and killed them.
Mr. B said that Von Einem didn't elaborate any further.
Their house on Harding Street was minutes away from the popular beach resort of Glenelg, a tourist hotspot home to numerous attractions, hotels and restaurants.
Like many other Adelaide residents, the children were fond of the beach at Glenelg and perhaps due to the innocence of the period and the maturity of Jane, their parents had no qualms about them visiting on their own, as long as they took the 5 minute bus ride from their house to the resort.
On 26th of January, 1966, the children left the house at 10am and were never seen by their parents again.
Eye witness statements confirmed that the children at least arrived at their destination as they were spotted at the beach with a tall blonde man.
The children appeared to be in no distress and were reportedly enjoying themselves in his company.
The eldest child, Jane, was also seen buying a meat pie from a beachside shop with a £1 note.
This seemed odd, however, as not only had the children never bought such an item in any of their previous trips, their parents had not given them this amount of money upon departing the house earlier on in the day.
The final confirmed sighting of the children was by a postman at 3pm that day.
The postman knew the children well and stopped to talk to them.
He reported that although they were heading in the general direction of their house, they did not seem to be in any sort of hurry or concerned that they were already 3 hours late.
A creepy footnote in the case is the fact that, prior to their disappearance, Arnna had told her mother that Jane had gotten a ‘boyfriend' down at the beach.
The mother, understandably, assumed this to be a young playmate, but in hindsight it supported the theory that the children had encountered their abductor at least once before.
There are numerous suspects for the murder of the Beaumont children, although none have ever been proven guilty.
The strongest of these suspects is Bevan Spencer von Einem, an apparent member of a high society gentlemen's club, who kidnapped and murdered numerous Australian children in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Von Einem is currently serving a life-sentence for the murder of an Adelaide teenager in 1984, and a credible witness (known only as ‘B' to conceal his identity in the 1984 trial) told the police that he had also admitted to the murders of the Beaumont children.
Police have been unable to prove this but von Einem would have fit the eyewitness descriptions in 1966, and was also known to frequent Glenelg.
Mr. B said that Von Einem had also told him that he had picked up the Beaumont children at Glenelg Beach on 26 January, 1966.
Von Einem had told him that he went to the beach regularly to have a perve on people in the showers and had picked up three children and had performed some "brilliant surgery on them" and that he had "connected them up" and one had died.
Von Einem said that he had dumped the childrens' bodies at Moana or Myponga, south of Adelaide.
Mr. B also said that Von Einem told him that he had also picked up two children at a football match and killed them.
Mr. B said that Von Einem didn't elaborate any further.
