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Once again, no good. It was 56 years ago, I just recall staying with my grandmother who lived in Plympton, so we took a tram to the Glenelg beach that day. When the news came through about the kids, and their photos, we tried hard to remember them but no good. I just liked to swim; I wouldn't...

I'm sure I would have covered this earlier in the thread, but I imagine he was interested in the fact I was at the Glenelg beach the day the Beaumonts went missing, but there was a large number of people there and we couldn't remember seeing them. I think the part he was interested in most was...

Yes, I tend to agree. Empathy and understanding are valuable traits to possess, but I grew up in a world where there was far greater expectation placed on people to do the right thing. Do the crime, you did the time. Far too much desire to understand what makes a person behave the way they do...

I'm just focusing on the bright side. Cleo was found alive, seemingly unharmed, and back with her mother and step-father. I've had little experience with 4 year old girls, except for when my niece was that age, but Cleo appears to be a remarkable young girl. To be separated from her mother...

Not stiff at all. If he hadn't been behaving like a moron, the police wouldn't have been there. We've had another horror smash here in Adelaide today, two people dead, another three in hospital. Another male in his 20s who thinks rules are for everyone else and sped through a red light at...

How's his bimbo of a girlfriend complaining about the length of time it took police to get to their property after it had been vandalised. I would have reminded her if the police hadn't been involved in pulling over her partner for excessive speeding, there would have been four more police...

I spent the final 10 years of my working life involved in child protection programs. With apologies to all the great people out there who work with children for all the right reasons, you soon learnt to become suspicious of people who gravitated to these areas. Fortunately, giant strides have...

There's never been any doubt in my mind the worst thing we ever did was abolish capital punishment (Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973). We need our legal system to have this option available to them, not necessarily to enforce, but to act as a deterrent. Sure, you would have psychos who will...

Yes, I've been given to the odd typing error from time to time :)

The dad is Grant Sr, but AKA Jim.

Yes, as I posted earlier, it is generally regarded as the time Adelaide lost its' innocence. We'd had the odd child abduction case in the past, but this was the first time the kids disappeared into thin air. I remember Gerard Croiset coming over, his trip was funded by property billionaire Con...

Yes, I saw that after I posted. He writes better than he speaks :) He actually contacted me a few years back to say he'd read a post from me on an earlier thread on this subject and was looking for additional information. Unfortunately I wasn't much help to him.

I bought a book yesterday, "The Missing Beaumont Children - 50 years of Mystery and Misery" by Michael Madigan. $25 if anyone is interested. I've only read the first 50 pages but it's an interesting read. No wonder the police got off to a slow start because a lot of the information...

One wonders about how blatant the acts were, taking these kids from crowded destinations, the beach and the football. There would have been far more secluded places.

I've always had an interest in the two cases. As a 10 year old I stayed with my grandmother and we caught a tram to the beach that day. When we heard the story the next day we tried to think if we could remember anything, but to no avail. Then, in 1973, I was at the football where the two...

I remember the 1982 Grand Final where Rolfe made an appearance on the MCG. As he was walking off the ground waving to the crowd, the people around me were yelling out "F**k off Rolfe". I was laughing at the time, but had I known what the degenerate was up to, I'd have joined in. What a silly...

Please read my thread above. The word "innocent" is not an issue in court proceedings, it's either guilty or not guilty to the charge. It's not up to a court to determine innocence, it is to consider its verdict in relation to a specific charge. The key issue here is someone is dead, and...

Well, for a start, nobody ever comes out of a court hearing "innocent". They are either guilty or not guilty of the charge. As previously posted 12 months ago, I cannot believe all the focus has been on whether or not he knew the person was his girlfriend. The bottom line is, whether the...

What I don't follow is they are trying to get him off because he didn't know the person he shot was his girlfriend. Does this mean it's okay to just gun somebody down because they were illegally on the premises? Surely, either way he should be facing either a muder or manslaughter charge...