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New developments Beaumont Children

August 9, 2013 By Alice

Beaumont Children with their motherNew developments in the cold case of the missing Beaumont Children. There is a new book out entitled “The Satin Man.” This book, written by Alan Whiticker explores the possibility that the Beaumont Children were at one point near a man with an alleged sinister background.

One of the sons of South Australian captain of industry Harry Phipps points to his father as a child abuser and cross-gender dresser with a love for satin. He claimed that on the day the Beaumont Children disappeared he saw three children in his backyard. The importance did not dawn to him then but now …

suspect re missing Beaumont Children“Phipps, who died 10 years ago, bears an uncanny resemblance to a widely-distributed sketch of a man who was last seen playing with the missing children at Glenelg Beach in 1966.” The sketch is here on the side.

The description that circulated at that time was that the suspect was “a male, in his mid to late 30s, and around 185 cm tall.

He had a thin to athletic build, with light brown or blonde hair swept back and parted on the left side. He was clean-shaven, with a suntanned complexion and a thin face. He spoke with an Australian accent.

He was wearing blue bathers with a single white stripe down the outside of each leg. He was also in possession of a pair of trousers and a towel.”

Not everyone is convinced that Phipps is involved. I have not read the book yet but if you did, let me know your thoughts! I’d be interested to hear why the son only now reveals what he saw back then. This case is very well-known in Australia so he could not have missed that. More importantly, even if Mr Phipps turns out to indeed have such a sinister history, we still need to link him to the crime. And, even if we do link Mr. Phipps to the disappearance of the Beaumont Children, that does not explain (yet):

1:  that Jane bought pastries and a meat pie using a £1 note. However, Mrs. Beaumont had not given Jane notes. She had given Jane coins. The store owner was familiar with the family and the children, and he noted that meat pie was not among their usual purchases. All were seen walking away from the beach around 12:15 pm.

2: that around 3 pm, the mail carrier saw the children walking alone away from the beach, along Jetty Road, in the general direction of their home. The mail carrier’s detailed description combined with the fact that he was familiar with the family, led police to trust this statement. The details that the mail carrier gave were that the children were happy and they greeted him. It turned out that the mail carrier was the last person to see the children alive. The postman did not state whether he saw the children carry their belongings such as the beach towels, books, and other things they had with them. No belongings of the Beaumont children were later found at the beach.

Searches with cadaver dogs have gone on at a different locations but without success.

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Filed Under: Cold Case News, Missing Persons Tagged With: Australia, Beaumont Children, Harry Phipps, Missing Person, South Adelaide

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  1. Gone for 50 years: the Beaumont Children - Defrosting Cold Cases says:
    January 25, 2016 at 2:41 pm

    […] 2: A man claimed that his father was a child abuser and cross-gender dresser with a love for satin. He claimed that on the day that the Beaumont Children disappeared he saw three children in his backyard. The book “The Satin Man” by Alan Whiticker explores this possibility.  My concerns are here. […]

  2. Have You Seen Me? 14 Unsolved Missing-Children Cases | Thought Catalog says:
    October 22, 2015 at 10:23 am

    […] On Australia Day in 1966, Jane (9), Arnna (7), and Grant (4) Beaumont went playing on a beach near their house. Witnesses reported seeing them speaking to a tall blonde man at the beach. At around 3PM, a postman says he saw the children walking back toward their home alone. And that’s the last anyone ever saw of them. Their disappearance “has become symbolic of the day Australia lost its innocence.” (source) […]

  3. The City of Corpses | Sword and Scale™ says:
    July 28, 2015 at 11:03 pm

    […] bus finally arrived the children never got off. The last person to witness the children alive was a postal worker doing his usual mail route in the area. The postman claimed that he had waved to the children and […]

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