The Mysterious Disappearance Of The Beaumont Children! + 2018 Update!

hello everyone welcome back to my channel and welcome to another true crime video so today I'm going to be telling you about a really old case that takes place in Australia and I've had so many of my Australian subscribers request this I actually had the pleasure going to Australia two years ago and one of the tour guides that I was with actually requested this in person so I was very interested to talk about this it's been a really long time I'm surprised I've waited this long but this one is super super weird and it's gonna leave you guys with a big old question mark so this is Jim and Nancy and they met and married in 1955 they had their first child in 1956 named Jane a second name orna in 1958 and a third name grant in 1961 and they were a happy family living in southern Australia On January 26 of 1966 the three kids were going to Glenn Oak Beach and Glen a beach is a beach in a suburb city of Adelaide in the state of South Australia it is known to be a popular tourist attraction and the children were familiar with this area and at this time you know it's Australia it's the 60s many people are sending their children to the beach by themselves it was just a different time kids walked around way more than they used to I mean even when I was a kid it was different than it is even now and this was not the first time that the kids had gone out on their own in fact they had literally done it the day before and it was like hot as [ __ ] outside I mean remember it's opposite seasons so January is a very hot month for them between 8:45 and 10:00 a.m. that day the children set out to the beach now I'm not sure exactly what time because different sources report different things it's an old case and you know things get messed up their mom gave them just enough money to get to the beach from the bus and to get some food and the beach was only two miles from their house so it'd only be like a five-minute bus ride not a big deal at all Jane who was the oldest was known for being very responsible very trustworthy and they just felt really comfortable with her looking after the - and she told them to catch the afternoon bus so that they were back by 2:00 at the latest their mom is planning to visit a friend while they were gone and their dad was at work so when two piano rolled around the kids were still not back Nancy got worried but you know she thought maybe they had missed the bus and they were just waiting for a later one it's not like they had a cellphone they could just text her or anything so they stayed tried to stay calm and waited for them however when they weren't home by the time Jim got back from work around 3:00 Jim decided to go down to the beach and look for them himself so after he searched the beach there was no sign of them so Jim and Nancy ended up just looking around surrounding areas near their house at neighbors houses just checking anywhere that they can think of but they found absolutely nothing so at 5:00 p.m. they decided that they should probably just contact the police and file a missing persons report but remember it's the 60s it's different it was all weird back then with the violent police report law is like a lot of them made people wait 72 to 24 hours to file a missing persons report so people didn't call as quickly as I do now but the police actually jumped on this really fast they organized a search team went over the whole beach and within 24 hours the entire nation was aware in this case is Jane the nine year old Ashley you know very intelligent very intelligent you've only got to tell her a thing once and she always does what she's told never to talk to any strangers on the beach when she swims they're always in groups people quite able to look after the other two Oh quite capable by now and it actually became the largest search in South Australian history on the night that they went missing a woman told police that she had seen the kids earlier that morning she actually said that she had spoken with them near the paddle wheel angga boat Haven on January 29th they decided to go ahead and drain the marina they figured that the kids likely drowned in the marina so this would help them in the search but when they were searching they weren't able to find anything and this is weird because the kids had a total of 17 items on different things such as bags towels money like things like that so they thought it was kind of strange for them to drown because chances are one of the objects would at least show up like on the shore somewhere near the beach or coming from the water and when they drain the marina they did not find them so at this point they're starting to think objection another witness a woman actually saw the kids around 11:00 or claims to have seen them around 11:00 playing near his like grassy area near the beach they were apparently playing in the sprinklers and just having a good time and she just noticed them now it's weird she also said that she saw a man that looked to be in his 30s just creepily watching them then she said that eventually this man started interacting with the kids and it wasn't long before they were all playing with him another witness said that they saw the man helping the kids put their shorts back on over their swimsuits she also saw them waiting for him outside of the dressing room when he was getting changed she said she didn't think anything of it didn't call the police or anything because the kid seemed completely comfortable and having a good time so she thought they knew him Nancy and Jim thought this was really because their daughter Jane was actually really shy they said that they would never think of her as being someone that would even talk to a stranger let alone go somewhere with him willingly so then around 12 p.m. another witness said that they saw the kids out of bakery and they were buying some pastries and a meat pie and I'm sure a lot of you in America are like what is a meat pie is actually this really popular food in Australia I saw it everywhere there's like chains it's literally a pie filled with me so the Baker that worked there said that he remembered the kids coming in and they ordered the meat pie and he thought it was unusual because normally they never ordered one and they said that the meat pie was actually for the man so at this point the police are thinking that the last time the kids were seen was around 3 p.m. and they thought that because a postman claimed to have seen all three of them walking in the general direction of their house at rm3 he said the children were holding hands and laughing however the postman who contacted the place actually figured out that he saw them in the morning that he was confused and it wasn't the afternoon so now the last known time was 11 a.m. at the bakery so months went by without any answers and then one random day a woman came forward and claimed that she saw a men walking with two girls and one boy into a house near hers and she said she believed it was abandoned and not known is currently living in it this is so frustrating because if this woman is telling the truth why did you wait months just say this like what didn't you call the police right away if you saw a person taking kids into an abandoned house like that's that's weird so no one knows why it took her so long but yeah they weren't really able to do much with that so this case really struck home with Australia Australia is a very safe place it's a it's just completely different and their community is different so they were so so hurt by this and this just didn't happen in the 60s especially not in Australia a few months later on November 8th it man from the Netherlands named Jared preset was brought to Australia to help with the search and he was actually a parapsychologist and a psychic a parapsychologist is actually someone who studies paranormal and psychic phenomenon in the science field this type of study isn't taken very seriously and isn't known to be credible but it's very interesting and Gerald said that he had a vision of where the children were and Gerald was actually known for working on missing-persons cases in the past a lot of psychics actually do this some of them were complete failures and he was totally wrong and some of them he was completely right so it's kind of like a 50/50 thing which seems to be that way with most psychics so it's kind of like why not take the chance and that's how their family felt I really appreciate him coming over I mean just on the children I think it'd be very difficult for him to meet us I think he's a very feeling man and I think that his main objective is finding the children Moore says until concurrency jared identified a warehouse near their home that he thinks the kids are buried under it was under construction at the time and he thinks that they were buried like into the construction under the concur in my opinion I had found the spot where the children are or where is that spot where I was this morning near the wall of that storeroom where the children will last we're executive cat that's wooden Street summit in fact he specifically said that the remains would being an old brick kiln obviously if the people who owned the warehouse were really hesitant to let them dig it all up especially just because some psychic said that the kids are buried under there but eventually they came the public raised $40,000 for the warehouse to be demolished and they agreed so it went ahead and demolished it but sadly they found absolutely nothing so then two years after this Jim and Nancy received letters in the mail they were supposedly written by Jane and then the other one was written by the man and this man claimed that he was keeping the kids the envelope was postmarked to Dandenong Victoria which is roughly 450 miles away from Glen oak Australia they were really sure about one of the letters the one that Jane had written basically described her life being pretty good with the man police actually believed that these letters were authentic because they compared it to James handwriting in the past and it matched up and the letter from the man said that he basically applied himself as guardian of these kids and was raising them as his own but he did say that he would be willing to give them back if the parents would meet him at a certain meeting spot at a specific time so they did they actually hired a detective the detective followed them out there they drove to this spot and when they got there there was nothing they waited there was nothing and after this they received another letter from and this time he said that he decided not to give the kids back to them because they betrayed his trust by bringing a private investigator with them and so he decided that he was going to keep the children obviously the moments were like really upset I don't even know if this is real and in 1992 new forensic examinations of the letters showed that they were a hoax fingerprint technology had improved and the author was identified as a 41 year old man who had been a teenager at the time and had written the letters as a cruel joke and because of all the time that had elapsed he was not charged with anything so there's a few people that are suspects in the case the first is Bevan von einem Bevan was sentenced to life in prison in 1984 for murdering a 15 year old named Richard Kelvin around the same time police started to suspect Bevan a possibly being involved in the Beaumont children's disappearance during the investigation into Bevan police heard from a source that apparently they had a conversation with him and he allegedly bragged about having taken the children from the beach a few years prior and said that he had taken them home to conduct experiments on them he bragged that he had performed a brilliant surgery on them where he somehow connected their bodies all up John even know what that means he said that one of the children had supposedly died during it so he killed the other two and then claims he dumped the bodies in Adelaide like out in the middle of known and police had not previously considered him to be a suspect but once they heard all of this they started thinking he looked pretty similar to the police sketches that were released in 1966 apparently investigators think that he is a reliable and credible source so they took him seriously but there was enough to argue against his involvement the main thing is that he was a lot younger than this effect was thought to me the suspect was thought to be in his late 30s this guy would have been in his early 20s at this point and another important thing that made people question if he actually did anything was the fact that he only killed men and teens older than 15 it was kind of like what he was known for but to me like both of those reasons seemed like pretty weak in August of 2007 it was reported that police were examining news footage old news footage of the case and they came across a video clip which showed a man that looked like Bevin watching them search for the bodies but they were never able to figure out the identity of this man or connect him to Bevin so that whole lead just still went cold here's also Alan Monroe in June of 2017 detectives were given a copy of a child's diary that was written in 1966 they were able to figure out that a man named Alan Monroe was at the beach during the time of the children's disappearance and he was actually convicted of doing this to several children in the past he was interrogated by police but nothing came out of it then there's James O'Neill in the early 1970s James was put in jail for life for the murder of nine-year-old boy in Tasmania James had apparently told several people that he was responsible for the disappearance of the Beaumont children as well however during his interview James claimed that he had never been to Adelaide so it couldn't have been him did it and they have interviewed him many times and I've concluded that he just cannot be considered a suspect there's a lot of people in this the next is Derrick Percy on April 22nd 2007 a report in an Australian newspaper suggested that the Beaumont children may have been killed by a man named Eric Percy Derrick was in prison until his death in 2013 after being found not guilty by reason for insanity in the 1969 murder of Yvonne tui they thought that maybe he could have been involved in the Beaumont Children case as well but after they did some more investigation on it they determined that it just wasn't possible because he would only been 17 years old at the time then there's Harry Phipps Harry was a business man who had two kids of his own and lived close to the beach and a bakery that the Beaumont children were asked one of Harry's sons Haydon was 15 when the kids disappeared and his father was in his 40s Haydon agreed to do a full interview about his father but the contents of that interview have never been released but he didn't did say in the interview that he remembered his dad talking to three kids he said that he actually saw his dad bring three kids in their house and as he was getting closer to his house because he was like walking up he heard gunshots but he didn't think anything of it because apparently this was normal in his house he didn't talk about how his father was very violent and scary he said that he carried a gun with him wherever he went and he also remembers his dad loading what looked to be surfboard covers into the bed of his truck and then driving off he had assumed that the three kids had just left on their own and thought his dad was actually carrying surfboard covers in the back of his car another thing that made Harry look really guilty is that a man named David came forward and told authorities that a man that looked like Harry and asked him and paid him to dig a big hole he and his friend often did things on the weekend like little odd jobs to make money and when they were are offered a decent amount of money just to dig a hole they were like sure and he wanted them to dig it near this Factory and the they didn't think anything of it he said that they got there early in the morning the man told him to get to digging and they did he paid them and they never saw him again now this hole is pretty big you could easily fit three small children in there however Harry did not ever become a suspect which is interesting because a lot of people think it was him but police say that he just didn't fit the description that people were giving them Harry was a high a businessman in the area he was well known when more people have noticed him when he had taken the risk and taken someone right from his town you'd have to have a really good case to prove him guilty Harry ended up dying actually in 2004 then 10 years later his son Hayden passed away as well but there also was a woman who came forward saying that she thinks she may have been sexually assaulted by a man that looked like Harry so years later after he died Harry's ex-wife decided to let the police search his house when they were going through the basement they found a white clutch purse this looked extremely familiar because this looked almost exact to the one that Jane was actually carrying with her that day when the police asked her about the purse and how her ex-husband may have gotten it she said that it was hers and she had just bought it but authorities asked her like if you just bought this why was it just like thrown in your basement in the dark and that's when she got angry and told the police to leave so in 2013 the authorities decided that they would go ahead and dig a hole in the area that was said that they had dug a hole or some man in the hole they found absolutely nothing but in 2017 it was discovered that they were actually digging in the wrong place so just this past year January 2018 detectives announced that they would be excavating the site after all the purpose of this press conference is to update you all in respect to some recent developments in relation to the disappearance of Jane Anna grant Beaumont 1966 over the years there's been many books magazines and media interest about this case and it's fair to say it's one of the most famous cases within Australia it's probably had more people nominated as a potential offender than any other case that I'm aware of certainly in this state one of those people I should know is Harry Phipps who operated the castleroy Factory at Murray Avenue at North Plimpton major crime first investigated claims about Harry fibs in 2007 and at that time were unable to prove that he was involved or that he was involved obviously in these cases when we whenever we have a person of interest it's our job to one either prove that the person is responsible or equally to prove that they're not responsible but unfortunately sometimes the matter remains unresolved and that's the situation with mr. Phipps subsequent to that we had two men come forward who said as boys they dug a hole for mr. Phipps at the customer site at the year of the disappearance of the beaumont some time ago we attended that site with the brothers they pointed out one site which was excluded almost immediately and one site which required further exploration ground-penetrating radar was used at that site and there was an excavation and again nothing to prove mr. Phipps was involved or to prove that he wasn't since 2013 there's been ongoing speculation there's been information that's come in and that caused us in 2017 to commence a discreet investigation which we didn't announce publicly and it had been our intention to complete that investigation in 2017 we became aware a media outlet was also making simultaneous inquiries then from that point work collaboratively with channel 7 and Flinders University Flinders University conducted what's known as PRT testing on the site which involves placing a number of probes into a defined area and it uses electricity to analyse what's underneath that was done from the 4th to the 7th of January and after that the people from the university went away and analyzed the data which was quite complex and time-consuming that analysis identified a small anomaly in the middle of the block consistent with where the brothers said that dug the excavation took place on February 2nd of 2018 15 years ago two young brothers like a halt like a hole on this site with the assistance of Finnish University Vennela identify an anomaly underground and it took a total of nine hours animal bones in general rubbish were found but nothing related to the Beaumont children though this case remains unsolved as of the latest on it Jim and Nancy really believe that their kids were alive so they stayed put and in their home for many many years but eventually years passed and they got divorced they are both currently in their 90's and they have no idea what happened to their three children so this is just one of those mysteries that people have so many theories on I really want to know what you guys think I don't know like it seems like a lot of those suspects could be legitimate it could have done it like I don't know it's just so weird but then each one gets somehow ruled out it's just like the perfect storm I want to know what you guys think did you think any of those men did it which one do you think was the most convincing what do you think happened to the Beaumont children I really want to know your guys's opinions on this one I think it's such a creepy case especially that it's been so long that they be adults by now and who knows if they're alive it's just one of those ones that keeps you up at night but um yeah that's it for me today guys be sure to let me know your thoughts in the comments and I will see you in my next [Music] [Laughter] where'd you go seems like it's been forever [Music]

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Published: Thu Oct 18 2018