Facts about Beaumont children disappearance

26 January 1966, the Beaumont children took a 5 minute bus journey from home to Glenelg beach which they had taken the same trip the day before. As Jane was the eldest, she was considered to be responsible enough to take care of her two siblings. Therefore, their parents were not concerned about their trip to the beach. The children left home at 10 am and they were expected to returned home by 2 pm on that same day. However, they did not returned home and their parents became worried, thus they called the police at 7.30pm.

 

The Beaumont children's parents: Jim and Nancy Beaumont 

During the investigation, several witnesses who had seen the children said that they were companied by a tall blond man who is thin faced in his mid-30s. The children were playing with him and were seen waking together from the beach later, which the police estimated to be around 12.15pm. Shopkeeper reported that Jane Beaumont had bought pasties and meat pie with a A£1 note. However their mother, Nancy had only given them enough coins for their bus fare and food and not a A£1 note as stated by the shopkeeper. At 3pm, the children were seen walking alone away from the beach while holding hands and laughing, said a witness who is a postman who knew the children very well. However, the police said that the postman might mistakenly seen the time when he saw the children who should returned home by that time. Jim and Nancy Beaumont described their children as shy, thus for them to play with a stranger seems to be out of their character. Investigators came out with a theory that the children perhaps might had met the man several times during their visit. Before this, Arnna had told their mother that Jane had a boyfriend at the beach. However, Nancy Beaumont thought she meant a playmate and took no further notice about it. 

Tall blonde man with a thin faced in his mid-30s who was seen to be with the children on the day they vanished

The Beaumont parents also received two letters after 2 years of the children disappearance. One of which could be from Jane and the other was "The Man". The envelope showed a postmark of Dondenong, Victoria. The letter by "The Man" said that he had appointed himself to be the guardian of the children and was willing to hand them back to their parents. In the letter he also stated the place to be met. The Beaumont parents went to the place that had been stated by "The Man", followed by a detective. However no one appeared. After some time, Jim and Nancy Beaumont received another letter by "The Man". He said that he was willing to return the children but when he found out that there was a detective, he felt that the Beaumonts had betrayed him. For that reason, he decided to keep the Beaumont children. After that, there were no further letters. 

Newspaper article and poster in search of the Beaumont children

The Beaumont couple divorced and lived separately as they have accepted that the truth of their children never be discovered. However, the police received new leads regarding the Beaumont children on 19 January 2016. Thus this new leads is still under investigation. It has been 50 years of the disappearance of the Beaumont children and the case still remained unsolved till this day.