Natalie:
Thanks for your kind words about the mother of the Beaumont Children a few months back. One thing I know for sure, is that if the kidnapper tried it today. its highly likely they would be detected quickly.
There's probably fifty or more CCTV cameras in that area of Glenelg today. Not counting dash cams and bus or trolley car cams.
If they were in a car, they probably would be tracked across the city via traffic cams etc.
There would be plenty of images of the kidnapper and his car.
I would really like it to be solved.
Me:
Unfortunately, unless the remains are found, it is unlikely to be solved. By now, the killer, whomever that was, is probably dead.
Natalie:
I had an idea for a story where Arnna Beaumont comes back from the Great Beyond to 2020 and explains what happened to her and her sister and brother (Police officer: "Do you remember dying?" Arnna: (quietly) "Yes"). Being a girl from conservative Adelaide of the mid-sixties, if she had to appear in front of the 2020 media, she'd baulk at wearing trousers rather than a dress for such an important event - in the existing photos of them, neither Arnna nor Jane are in trousers or shorts. Again, because of a city and a state that had fallen asleep in the embrace of the conservatives.
Thank you, Tim.
The problem is that no one knows what happened to them.
Yes, they were likely murdered, but, until the remains turn up, all we can do is guess.
Exactly. They left willingly with whoever took them, at first. What happened after that we will never know.
Tim - what do you think of the theory that Jane and Arnna primarily were kidnapped to be sex dolls for the paedophile "network" that existed in Adelaide in the sixties and seventies? The network that is believed to have had members such as important politicians and cultural figures - or at least it had connections in high places?
Why would Tim know anything about this? If you ask me (as someone who LIVED in the area) I would say it is quite a probable theory but I wouldn't rule out murder for the sake of it.
I think Jane and Arnna were the real prizes, that they were possibly kept alive and captive for a bit as sexual playthings, and Grant was killed because he could have told his parents or the police quite a lot about who took them.
The other reason Grant would have been of less use to most of the apparent "network" was pointed out elsewhere - Four Corners on the ABC had to take great care to remind its viewers that most paedos target little girls rather than little boys.
It's an interesting theory, but that's all it is. Rodney's idea is just as legitimate.
I'm sure there have been many theories put forth over the last 54 years (I'm sure some of have even suggested the involvement of aliens).
However, there is no evidence to back them up.
it's also worth remembering that most child sex offences relate to crimes against young girls, not young boys and the predator is usually known to the family.
Yes, but there is no evidence to indicate that is what happened in this case.
File it away among the other countless theories.
I said this on Websleuths but i'll tell you as well. These claims by these now-adults-then-children that they "saw the bodies of the Beaumont Children in the boot of their dad's car" seems like a publicity stunt. The bit about mistaking Arnna for a boy also doesn't hold up Especially if the children still had their swim wear on. I know the sixties were when tranny meant a transistor radio but i cannot conceive of many Australian little boys in 1966 willingly wearing a little girl's bathing suit!
Actually in the 60s tranny meant the transmission in your car. At least in the US.
Butch the old guy.
In, Australia, it meant a transistor radio. Better that than a transgender "woman". (no i don't count someone born with a wee-wee as a girl. As the Tenth Doctor might say, there's no "shared suffering" with womyn-born-womyn).
How does this have any relevance to the Beaumont Children?
Historical context?
It is possible that the murderer could still be living, assuming what age they are.
If this murderer was 25 at the time, they would be 79 now.
There is no statute of limitation on murder.
the notion that these then-children mistook Arnna Kathleen Beaumont for a little boy - Yes, she a typical 1960s short haircut but even if she hadn't been in a very obviously gendered bathing suit, she would have something missing between her legs. Something important.
Who the hell cares what these publicity hogs (which is what these people are) say. That's hardly the main issue here.
These clowns just wanted to get their names in the news, and used the disappearance (and likely murder) of the Beaumont Children to do so.
They should all be ashamed of themselves, IMO.
Here's an author pushing his own BC theory who's squatting on a URL that really deserves to be owned by the BC's family:
https://thebeaumontchildren.com.au/
Interesting comment by Rachel Vaughan on the petition to dig the sinkhole about how SAPOL are ignoring the McIntyres' claims and how Rachel has been told to not call Major Crime again and told by one detective he thinks she might be mentally unwell.
I think that the children missed the bus home and the next bus wasn't for two hours so Jane and her sister and brother decided to walk home through the back streets. One of the allegations is that they are buried in a backyard somewhere along the back streets between Glenelg and their home.
Another theory I've heard is that perhaps they're still alive. What happened was the kidnapper brainwashed them and they're now walking around with no idea who they really are (and they'd now all be well into their 50's).
As for me, I don't buy it. If it were just one, then maybe, but all three?
No, they're all dead. Perhaps the remains will be found one day, perhaps not. I'm sure they have the DNA of the parents on file in case some remains do turn up.
I mean they still haven't found Judge Crater or Jimmy Hoffa.
Even if the proposed Beaumont telemovie goes ahead, Jane and Arnna will be portrayed by children who were born in the 2010s. The real Jane and Arnna grew up in the early nineteen sixties with completely different perspectives and experiences to any children cast to play them today.
and?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWN3cHKeuCw
OK I'm not sure how that answers my question....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6rvbwQ_NcA
I'm sorry. It just seemed funny/absurd that whoever supposedly saw Arnna's body couldn't tell that she was a girl. I jumped to a conclusion and fell right off a cliff. In days of old that would have earned me the wooden spoon.
Natalie wrote:
quote:A prayer for all children... "O God, guide me, protect me, make of me a shining lamp and a brilliant star. Thou art the Mighty and the Powerful." ~ Baha'i Faith
My post on "Big Footy":
quote:I doubt "Jane's boyfriend" was that old. He'd have to be fairly young and cute. He was young enough for Jane and Arnna to have "puppy love" about him.
Too old, and Arnna wouldn't have used the term "boyfriend" - she would have seen the guy as a "grown-up" like her father.
As this point, I'm half-expecting the children's character Mister Squiggle to be claimed as the co-conspirator in taking the Beaumonts.
Does Mister Squiggle have an alibi?
Well, given the crazy theories about the Beaumont children's fate, Jane and Arnna and Grant could have been sent to the Play School universe (Yes, girls and boy, today we're going to send you through the ROUND WINDOW!").
They were kidnapped and murdered. End of story.