IT'S TIME FOR THE TRUTH

BEAUMONT CHILDREN DISAPPEARANCE

- Kylie Walters

CAN THIS NOTORIOUS AUSTRALIAN COLD CASE FINALLY BE SOLVED?

Almost six decades after the three Beaumont children disappeared, it remains unknown what happened to the siblings who vanished from their local Adelaide beach on January 26, 1966. As he looks into the case for true crime docuseries The Hunters, esteemed Australian investigative journalist Adam Shand calls for an inquest into the case if there is to be any chance of the truth ever coming out.

“It’s been over 59 years now, and unlike many other cases of this nature, there has never been an inquest and that’s just not good enough,” Shand tells WHO. “With each passing day, the pool of elderly witnesses gets smaller and the clock is ticking.”

On that fateful morning, Nancy Beaumont walked her kids, Jane, 9, Arnna, 7, and Grant, 4, across the road from their Somerton Park home to the bus stop, from where the three children made the five-minute journey to Glenelg Beach on the bus by themselves. Unimaginable today, at the time it was considered normal and safe for children in Australia to be unattended at public venues.