Unsolved The Beaumont Children - Media

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Jane, Arnna and Grant Beaumont were abducted from Glenelg South Australia January 26th 1966 and never to be seen again. This case resulted in the largest police investigation in Australian criminal history, yet still remains one of Australia’s and the world’s most infamous unsolved cold cases.


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Detectives re-interviewed the witness at Wenzels one year later, she appears not to have waivered from her original statement being she served the Beaumont children giving them 'pies, pasties and cool drinks' and they paid with a one pound note. This confirms within the news clip in the link that the information was revealed to Channel 9 news within days of the kids disappearing.

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This Nine News Adelaide story is a follow-up report on the disappearance of the three Beaumont children on Australia Day, 1966.
Jane (aged 9), Arnna (7) and Grant (4) Beaumont went missing from Adelaide's Glenelg Beach after they caught a bus there from the family home in Somerton Park.
The news report highlights evidence that has been made public one year following the disappearance of the children.
Despite a widespread police investigation, the case remains unsolved.

 

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David Smith's recount of the statement he provided to SAPOL. This is not the original (letter) David sent to SAPOL in feb/March 2015. It is not known if this is what was presented to SAPOL Det David Sheridan when he interviewed Smith in person, other than to say that David Smith said this is what he stated in that interview. This is consistent with the information David Smith provided at my first meeting with him in June 2015. David did not ever change his account of events he witnessed on January 26, 1966. (Pages may have loaded outof sequence)
 

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The boy's diary Tony Munro encouraged the production of which records in great detail their movements and activities.
This document was used by investigating police to support the child sex abuse claims of one of Munro's victims.
Munro pleaded guilty to raping that victim in December 1965 while on the camping trip that this diary documents.
It is clear that dates on the cover of this diary and the first page have been altered from 1965 to 1966.
The victim only ever went camping on KI once... the time in 1965, a month before BC abduction.
This document has been fabricated so it looks like everyone is happy campers even after the time it's now claimed Munro was involved in BC abduction when in fact it details Munro's ability to groom young boys, get the trust of kids, and his movements around SA's coast and beaches at the very time of the BC abduction.

Some interesting camping and day trip locations the group had. Can't say I've heard of a dive site "Rich Man's Mansion". Anyone else?
 

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This is sad but I wonder what he had in his files.

February, 2006.

A decade ago, after the 30th anniversary of the children's disappearance, this reporter was sent to Adelaide to interview a vain, muddled old man - an ex-detective called Stan Swaine who had wasted his life trying to solve the case. Obsessed with the theory the children - aged nine, seven and four in 1966 - had been taken and raised by a cult, his latest claim was that a 40-year-old Canberra woman was Jane Beaumont. Apart from estranging himself from family, friends and fellow police, and ruining his career, his increasingly bizarre "investigations" provided cheap headlines for cynical or credulous media.

Swaine, now dead, was only one of the frauds, cranks and armchair enthusiasts who have made the unspeakable torment of the children's parents (Jim and Nancy Beaumont) even worse by raising false hopes. At least Swaine was not a cold-blooded charlatan like the Dutch "clairvoyant" Gerard Croiset, who made huge headlines with his bogus "visions" of where the children's bodies "could" be.

 

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