DISAPPEARANCE OF THE BEAUMONT CHILDREN
Australia Day - 26 January 1966
The Beaumont children are three siblings Jane Arnna and Grant who disappeared from Glenelg Beach, near Adelaide, South Australia. The children have never been found and their disappearance remains a mystery.
The family lived near Glenelg a popular beachside which the children often visited by themselves. On 26 January 1966, at 10 am the children took a five minute bus journey from their home to the beach. The children were expected to return home by 2 pm, their parents Grant ‘Jim’ and Nancy became worried when they didn’t show up and called the police at 7:30pm.
There were witnesses who had alleged they had seen the children near the beach in the company of a blond haired man aged in his 30s. The children were seen playing with him and enjoying themselves, they were witnessed with the male around 12:15pm. A shopkeeper said that Jane bought pasties and a meat pie, and that the children have been in her store previous times before. The children paid for their purchases with a $1 note, even though their mother only gave them coins. At 3pm a witness alleged that they had seen the children walking alone, away from the beach in the direction to their home.
Arnna had previously told her mother that Jane had ‘got a boyfriend down the beach’ and her mother thought it was another child playmate and didn’t think any more of it. On the day they disappeared they had 17 items on them, including clothing, towels, bags - but none of these have ever been found.
The children’s parents remained living at their Somerton Park home for years, hoping for the day that their children will return. The couple eventually sold their home and moved. Nancy died in 2019, aged 92 and Grant died in 2023, aged 97.
In 2013 and 2018, an excavation took place at two locations at the North Plympton factory which used to belong to Harry Phipps, one of the many suspects. This took place after two men, who as boys were paid by Phipps to dig a hole in that area at the time of the children’s disappearance. The excavation found animal bones, but nothing else.
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