Update: February, 2018, the correct site the men had dug the hole was searched. The bones of a large animal. such as a cow or horse were found. It seemed promising. Unfortunately, yet another dead end in the search for the Beaumont children.
While walking alone across a major car/pedestrian bridge during a light morning rain, on my way to summer school in 1973, I was approached by a man in a four-door, white Ford Fairlane. The man gingerly took his car to a virtual crawl, which I thought was quite unusual on this very busy pedestrian bridge. He addressed me through his passenger window. "Where are you going, boy? Can I give you a lift?" I turned to look at the man. He was white, about 40 (my Dad's age back them), and he was wearing a blue golf shirt. Although I made eye contact with this man for less than 10 seconds, I can vividly remember specific details about his appearance as if it were yesterday. I am 54 years old now and to say this memory has haunted me in the intervening years is an understatement. In contrast, most weekends my older, 13-year-old brother would routinely hitch-hike to the local cinema. His specialty was accepting rides from strangers and he always arrived safely to his destination. In those days, our parents never felt the need to have heartfelt discussions with their children about "stranger-danger". When I think about the details of my personal situation unfolding upon that bridge, there was something about the helpful, pleasant, smiling man in the white Ford Fairlane which literally made me shiver. I politely declined his invitation stating, "No. thank you" and continued to walk straight ahead toward the school less than four blocks away. However, the man persisted in his plea for me to accept his offer of a ride and swung open his car's front passenger door. He said, "Come on, boy, it's raining. You don't want to get wet." Without even glancing at the man, I intuitively crossed the four-lane bridge from behind his vehicle and I proceeded to run the remaining span of the bridge from the other side. I have no idea what the man did next, because I had absolute tunnel vision. In that moment of my life as a small child in a big city, I was inexplicably terrified, but did not truly know why. I finally made it to school--exhausted, out of breath, and suffering from a mild stomach cramp. Later during lunch, I instinctively realized my eight-year-old person knew I had done something incredible for myself: I had learned a valuable lesson in self-preservation. Then and now, I shudder to think what could have happened if I climbed into that friendly man's vehicle. Could I have been just another missing child statistic in 1973? Possibly, possibly not. Nevertheless, I am most grateful to God I was not.
You most likely dodged a bullet. That man was up to no good! There's a reason you were petrified and shivering. His intentions were vile and you sensed it! Bless!
For those of you who blame irresponsible parenting for this tragedy, kindly use a little perspective: One hundred years ago, a nine-year old was considered old enough to take on a job or an apprentice. Fifty years ago, when I lived, a nine-year old was given enough responsibility to babysit, do household tasks, and to come and go within the confines of the community where a family lived. This was mine and my peer's experience. Today, a large number of children are regularly allowed to browse the internet or use a mobile phone without true supervision and be subjected to many abuses and dangers of on line predators, not to mention peer bullying on an unprecedented level. Sadly, many children do not know they are being abused, because they are becoming acquainted with sexual behaviors/acts on the internet and some start becoming willing participants even text and meet with a predator. Think about whether the dangers of today are less than former generations.
Wow, you so accurately summarized today’s viewpoint of good vs bad parenting. I was 11 years old in 1966 and the oldest of 4 children. I well remember being responsible for looking after them and also being free in summer or after school to wander at will. I also remember being put on a train in charge of my siblings to travel 250 miles from our parents home to our grandparents farm. This developed responsibility in children. Now, I can’t drive past an elementary school during lunch or after school for all the mothers in gas guzzling SUVS fighting for parking space. Their precious fat little children apparently can’t navigate 2 blocks home by themselves. Indeed, young adults don’t seem to have many coping skills for any hardship including the present pandemic.
I think you are right. My mom is from 1954 and has 3 sisters. When they were 7, 8 and 9 they took their little sister to a playground. And she was 8 months old… different times
To be quite honest it sounds like the mother just wanted the children out from under her feet! She was irresponsible to expect a 9 year old to be in sole charge of two younger children especially as the little boy was not much more than a baby it was beyond irresponsibility!
I don't understand the trend to have background noise, music, etc equally as loud as the narrative, effectively drowning their voices and annoying the ears
Agree 100% it’s is just competing noise. Very annoying. As soon as the reporter is on the beach with no noise in background it improves but the quickly goes back to music and voices at same volume.
In 1959 when I was in 3rd grade a man tried to lure my younger sister and me into a car. We were on our way to school. I grabbed her hand and ran all the way to the school. She reported what happened to her teacher. I was called to the office and gently questioned. My mother took us home and called my Dad home from work. All I wanted to do was sit close to him on the couch. He suggested going for a ride so we all got in the car and drove aimlessly around. When I spotted the car parked in front of a home I started crying and my sister said that was the car. Dad took home and left. Years later I found out that he had gone back and confronted the man who denied everything. My dad went around to all his neighbors, the police and talked to the parents at the school. He gave a description, the address, and he and a group of men went to tell him no one was going to help him if anything happened to him. I heard he was arrested for trying to take other children. I don't know what happened after that but heard much much later he died while in prison. I had always been a quiet, shy child but after that I could never talk to any strangers. It was no until I was in my 30s when I heard of his death that I felt freed from fear.
I can relate to your story. My sister and I were nearly abducted as children. I still remember it today and I was 4 at the time. If my Aunt Sara hadn't run out and grabbed us, we'd be dead. He was a local business man who stalked us. My parents were terrified. He was finally arrested.
@DawnRose Goodwin.Children were pooh poohed. I was almost assaulted by our parish priest but told no one cos they would not have believed me and labeled me.a troublemaker
I feel so sorry for these poor lost children, and their parents. I was born in Jetty Road, Glenelg and lived there, and was the same age as Jane when they went missing. I remember the news headlines on TV, and the poster going up outside out school. I know my Dad was worried sick about what had happened. As the reporter on the documentary said, we all used to just wander down the beach on our own and play for hours, although Dad always drummed it into me, never to talk to strangers even before this. I was saddened to learn that their Mum passed away, but hopefully now she will be re-united with her kiddies, and find peace at last 🌹 xx
Oh no, this is such a heartbreaking story😥 but l hope and pray that mum and dad are re-united in heaven with their children ♥️ and all have finally found peace 🕊️
If I were granted one wish with my dying breath it'd be that the rich and powerful never, ever get away with heinous acts of rape, sexual assault, and murder.
Save that breath. They won't be getting away with anything. They can hide and run from Man's justice, but not from Universal Retribution. Karma's a bitch..
Telling kids not to talk to strangers isn't enough. There are multiple social experiments posted on UA-cam where parents tell their kids not to talk to strangers, then a researcher approaches the same kids minutes later with a story or pet dog and the kids start talking and walk away with them. These predators appear friendly. The big, bad stranger in a kid's mind is like a TV show villain. But predators look normal, friendly, even helpful in real life.
When ! was 10, I am 53 now, a girl who I was friends with in a club we belonged to vanished. In the end a neighbor eventually confessed and told police where they could find her body. It confused everything as it wasn't a bad man, but a neighbor she had always known so she went into the house with him to get change for an errand. All of a sudden friends fathers who we had known forever would almost back away from you after it happened. My dad did the same thing. Eventually things settled back down but things never were quite the same.
U tube. Key word. In this day and age, not one of us is safe. Even in our own homes. Doors locked. I remember being able to go to bed, only screen doors latched. Still, we were safe. This is an evil time to live in. I feel humanity has changed, and, we are never going to be safe again. The peace we felt so many years ago is gone. And, that is a fact.
The real problem with telling kids not to talk to strangers is the majority of sexual abusers are family and friends, not strangers. Sadly, the most vulnerable children are the ones whose families are in crisis, or who have suffered neglect or abuse. They are easily groomed. Children need trusted adults to stand up for them.
This to a T! My parents told me all about what could happen so I understood the dangers. I was not told to simply not speech to strangers! I have noticed telling children not to speak to strangers actually causes some to freeze up!Not to mention that so many children are proven to want to rebel against what their parents tell them not to do. I do not feel I lost out on childhood at all, simply because I knew true dangers existed! I had a wonderful childhood and I knew what to be aware of because my parents thought enough of my intelligence to tell me.
People think it was safer back then. It was not. People just didn't realize the danger. My own mother had several encounters. One was as a young girl, I think she was still living in New York at the time. A woman in a red car pulled up near her and her sister and was trying to convince them to get in (they didn't). Later it was discovered there was a big scheme involving kidnapping children and selling them to adoptive families. Another was when they were older. She went to do laundry with her sister (it was a huge family, ten kids, so a lot of laundry). They basically spent all day at the laundromat and had to park the car in the alleyway because there was no space left. When it got dark they were going to leave, but when they went int he alleyway two men pulled up and blocked it off with their truck. With the path blocked, they got out of the truck and were approaching. My mom was tiny and young-looking even as an adult, and her sister was about 7 months pregnant. Anyway, they got in their car and my mom told her to "get them out of there", so her sister floored it and got out by scraping up both sides of the car to slip through. My aunts have also mentioned an abuser they fell prey to who lived in the area. Times weren't safer. People just didn't realize how unsafe it was. Usually nothing will happen, but it only takes one time to end up never seeing your kids again. The reason we changed how we raise kids to be more protective isn't because it was safe then and it's dangerous now. It's because news started spreading more and people became aware of the dangers. You can find a plethora of unsolved disappearances and murders from back then.
You nailed it! You are absolutely right. It's silly to think that predators just happened one day, and then boom, freedom and innocence were gone. No, what happened is that the knowledge that these things happen began to be shared. That's all it was.
Right!? If anything, it's safer now. There are cameras, cell phones, videos taken by tourists, etc. Some people just think it was safer because they weren't aware of the dangers. People like to complain about how other people are always taking selfies and everyone is always on their phones. But too bad there weren't cell phones back then.
@@krystalhaugland Yeah, just look at the Delphi murders. There's a good chance that the only reason there was evidence was because they were taking pics of each other. Or the murders in Idaho, where there was a bunch of video evidence of what they were up to. Or Shanquella Robinson's murder. Video/picture evidence was important for all of the cases. (Poor kids, though.)
This tragedy reminds me of the disappearance of the Sodder children on Christmas morning, 1945, in Fayetteville, West Virginia. The Sodders had 10 children, a son was away in the Army at the time, the others were home. Their home caught fire on sometime around 1 a.m., the parents & four of the children escaped, but five other children couldn't get out. The fire department was summoned but didn't arrive until hours later, after the house had been reduced to ashes. There was no trace of the 5 remaining children, no bones, nothing, no sign of them--they seemed to have vanished into thin air. The parents believed their missing children were abducted, but by who, how & why they had no idea, same for the Beaumonts.. They posted a billboard in the area w/the photos of the five kids, pleading for help. The parents died w/out ever finding their children. Very interesting story, also very tragic.
@@edinak5805 The mafia connection was a theory that was presented. This was a very suspicious case. Phone lines cut, doors unlocked, ladder moved. I wish that they would collect dna from surviving family members and run it through the data bases just on the chance that it might match somewhere.
@@leeblanchard7106Officially, they died in the fire, though the family still maintain they were abducted. And if they weren't, it's never been established how the fire began for sure. Personally, whilst I tend to fall on the side of the people who think the abduction idea was wishful thinking on behalf of grieving parents desperate to believe their children could be alive (absolutely understandable) I suspect the Mafia WERE involved in setting the fire.
My son was lost in a Kresge store for under two minutes and to this day my heart still races! I can't imagine the type of monster that would do something like this!
how sad.....poor Jane all that responsibility, she must have been terrified when she realised there was nothing she could do to protect her younger siblings
I agree, it was too much responsibility for a child. It’s not the mothers fault that this monster killed her children. The blame lays solely at his feet, but children can’t be expected to navigate adult situations alone. They simply don’t have the experience or tools needed. Giving a 9 yr old the responsibility to navigate bus schedules, buy food, and monitor preschoolers at the beach is next to insanity, no matter WHAT year this was! I was around her age at that time, and that wasn’t a common occurrence. I’m heartbroken for all involved, save the pig that took them, there’s a special place in hell for people who hurt children, the elderly, and animals.
Voracious Reader A nine year old, whether they live now or in the 60s, is not emotionally, psychologically, physically, or temperamentally equipped to care for young, preschool children through bus rides, purchasing and serving meals, and being responsible for their safety at the ocean! It’s unfair to ask her to be. Watching them in the safety of their own homes while mom runs an errand? Yeah, maybe. But this outing had far too many risks to put on a child’s shoulders, as we all now know. This isn’t judging the mother, I’m sure she loved her children just as much as all we mothers do. And just FYI...giving your child responsibility for something they are capable of doing, and letting them prove to themselves that they are capable DOES build responsible adults with great self confidence. Giving them responsibilities clearly over their heads serves to frustrate them and tear down their self esteem.
@@heathergreen4184 I agree with you that a 9 year old shouldn't be left solely responsible for the safety and well being of two younger siblings. Too much can go wrong that they are not prepared to handle. However, in the time period that this all took place, it was indeed a common occurrence that an older sibling of nine would be in charge of her younger siblings! And as far as "navigating" bus schedules, paying for meals, etc. They took the bus to the beach quite regularly so it wasn't like she had to map out an entire road trip . And buying food was much simpler then. You simply told the person at the counter what you wanted and they took your money and made your change. I remember even as late as the early 70's when I was a kid that most of my friends had the tag a long younger sibling that went everywhere with us. We ran all over the place unattended! The mall. the movie theater, the pool, fast food restaurants, all over the neighborhood and beyond! It was a different time with different rules of thumb! We left in the morning and had all day to run. We went home when the street lights came on. This was in Houston, TX. by the way!!!! Not some small town with a dirt road .....
To all of those people too young to have lived during those decades - stuff your petty, judgmental claptraps. You didn't live in the culture and have absolutely no reference point, except hindsight. These decades didn't hide children behind fences to protect them - kids were allowed a certain amount of leeway to explore their world, were taught to be level-headed, follow directives of their elders, and people watched out for each other. Neighborhood parents admonished the children in their vicinity in the absence of parents or older family member. Only the very bad, bold kids talked back and they heard about it, later. You simply didn't live in the same sort of world, any more than if it were 19th c. America, or WWII Britain. As this documentary clearly points out, the evil was done by someone nobody would have suspected - someone above suspicion, at least in the eyes of the law/establishment. It matters not a bit whether that occurred in the 1960s, 80s or 00s; wealth and power buy a veneer of respectability. Your armchair quarterbacking a half-century after the fact is mean and useless.
Chan167 I’m 33 and my childhood was the same. Free and safe to explore but warned about strangers (and of inappropriate behavior in general) be back in time for dinner, and off we went! But times definitely changed. The day after my 11th birthday my sister’s high school friend went missing and no one knew what became of her for 20 years until a year or so ago. I remember my understanding of the world as kind of freezing in place and being cut distinctly in two halves the day she went missing. Everyone who knew her lived in the innocence of a simpler time just the day before, and have been in the cold reality of the world ever since.
I think I heard the parents of these children never moved house for a long time as they thought what they'd feel like if they came back to someone else living their home... Can't imagine what those parents went through, waiting and waiting 😭
It's interesting that they have failed to comment on a revelation that the younger sister had stated that 'Jane had a boyfriend'. In my mind, the gentleman who kidnapped them, had gained their confidence over a long period of time. Making it easier to convince the kids to go with him willingly.
Absolutely, it is grooming. It is the norm. Kids normally are not snatched abruptly, although this does indeed happen, it is more often grooming over a period of time. Usually they promise kids to secrecy of some sort so they don't spill the beans to their parents. You have to teach kids about these kind of snakes. Your kids need to know that no adult should be asking them to keep things secret etc
I think the satin freak saw the kids going to the beach and they caught his eye abd he spent time grooming them. Protected by his well to do paedo friends. There's too many coincidences and I don't believe in coincidences! That was Jane's purse. What an evil man who destroyed everyone around him.
Vicki Noeske Oh yes! Endless agony losing one child..let alone 3 A mom always longs for her dead child..A piece of her is gone..I think about my son everyday..These poor parents unimaginable pain and sorrow.
Lisa Jordan So very sorry about your son. There are no words. It makes me so angry that the guy got away with it; just went on like nothing happened. Hopefully, he's paying for it now.
dreams of turtles I don't think I could go on if I lost all my kids this is sad very sad such sweet looking kids so inocent hope they Weill solve this case very soon for the parents
I was living in Adelaide at that time and I think that its a huge responsibility for a nine year old to look after a four year old boy. Despite the fact she was mature for her age. I wouldn't trust anyone.
Re: "age of innocence." I don't know about south Australia, but in mid-America (Arkansas) small town life in the 1950's we children had a lot of freedom. We "town kids" walked to and from school until we were old enough to have cars. With both parents working we did in fact go by ourselves to each other's homes, to the swimming pool, empty lots to play ball. In many ways it was like a village, with people paying attention to anything or anyone unusual or out of place. Times and places are indeed different. The argument about the "failures" of parents, police, etc, is not the point.
You are right. Tragic events abound everywhere. I was just saying that every time, place, person, situation is different. And every one has its share of "guilty" people who could have acted differently. This story touches a nerve of vulnerability in people; those who have responded here do so out of individual, unique experiences.
Marcia Dodd I grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas. During the summers we were out the door just as the sun was rising. We rode our bikes all over town. Our parents had no idea where we were. We played in creeks, swam in creeks, ponds and small lakes. We ate wild berries, collected glass pop bottles and returned them for pocket change and buy ice cream and hot dogs from Dairy Queen or the small mom and pop shops. We were instructed to be home by dark. I may of had one incident that "spooked" me or made feel ill at ease. When we came home at night my parents never questioned where we were or what we had done. Those were blissful days. I am so glad I was a kid then and not now.
@@MizBryteEyez Sounds like my small Southern town. We left early and went all over. Friends houses, the creek, railroad tracks, the woods, skating rink, walked to the stores nearby. Came home at lunch, left again and home when the porchlight was on. Different times. More innocent times.
Based on my own experience when I was 9 years old (I am 59 now), I believe they were taken. I was at Glenelg sideshows with my 4 younger brothers and sister. A man gave us quite a lot of money to play on sideshows and hung around us for a long time. I didn't think of stranger danger - I just thought he was very nice giving us so much money and thought it was a bit strange that a grown up man wanted to hang around a bunch of kids. Then at some point, to my horror, I noticed my younger sister missing. I found her , maybe 300 meters along the beach with this man. I ran down the beach, grabbed her and took her back to my parents car and frantically told my parents. In those days the police station was right near those showgrounds and car park, but my dead beat parents never got involved in anything. We just all drove home. I remember how disturbed I felt that they did nothing when we knew that three other children around our age (the Beaumonts) had gone missing. When I was about 56, I went over the details with my sister, mainly trying to work out how old we were when this happened. Then on her urging. I went to police. She lived interstate, so I gave them the email conversations that I had with her about the incident. I can't be sure - it was 50 years ago, and I'm not sure how reliable my 9 year old memory is, but the image of him in my mind is consistent with that of Harry Phipps as shown in media photograph. He had a hat on (the sort men wore in the 60s) so I can't recognize the top of his head. What I noted in my statement to police though, is that he "presented" as being middle class. I wish now I had elaborated more. What I meant was that he was well dressed and well spoken. I was so disheartened when this latest search come to nothing. I thought this time they may have solved that crime. Sorry - I'm too scared to use my real name in writing this.
Like Jane (the eldest child), I was considered responsible and capable and my parents and everyone else trusted me. I took my 4 little siblings on the bus to the pool, to the city, to the beach just as Jane's parents entrusted Jane to do.. Then because of my lack of vigilance , a horrifying and tragic event could have happened. When I replay it in my mind 50 years later, I dont know that I feel that proud of myself. :'( The best I can say for myself is that he was an adult able to outsmart me. I thought it was weird at aged 9 that a grown up man would want to spend so much time playing with us, and the amount of money was more than our parents could afford to give us, but it still didnt set off alarm bells.
It says on the video that it is believed the children went willingly with the man. They weren't dragged kicking and screaming. YES - my younger sister went willingly and was walking beside him when I found her. At first I couldnt understand why a grown up man let a child so far away from where he found her knowing that the child probably would not be able to find their way back. THEN the alarm bells rang in my head and I thought of the kidnapped Beaumont children. Then I got scared and thought this was an attempted kidnapping. I grabbed my sister and got away from him as fast as I could. Meanwhile I had left my other 3 siblings on their own at the sideshows. It was very emotional for me as this latest search unfolded in the media. I couldnt be certain that the photo was him - but it was certainly consistent with what I remember. Try to think back 50 years to your 4th grade teacher. I have a vision in my mind of what he looked like, but if I got given a photo of him, I'm not sure I could make a positive ID. When I was talking to police, they told me the story was all consistent with what they knew of the Beaumont children. (At the time, I didnt know the perpetrator had given them a generous amount of money as he had with us). In our case however, he only took one child while the others were distracted playing on the sideshows with his money.
ruth Hanckel A child as young as you were, lacked the guile that this monster had... how would you have been able to see through his tricks? So I think you're a hero and your sister owes her life to your quick thinking !
I grew up during the 60/70's in England. We were out all day. I was molested. He was caught. Mum had to still let us grow up. Not sure how she did it. I knew about it, and managed. Wasn't till I had kids and struggled to let go. The psychologist made me realize why I did hold on and helped me to let go. My kids are now adults and healthy.
Being free as a child back in that time period was rich. I hate that our children cannot do that anymore. I had so many adventures. We could explore our world - interact with it without fear. The fact that it felt safe is a state of being that cannot be described. My childhood was rough in many ways, but it was that freedom to explore the world that made it so memorable. Being in charge of your siblings was a badge of honor - and made the adventures even more fun. I’m so glad I had a childhood during those times of innocence. And I think that one man took them - whose son spoke about seeing them. His son was a drug addict and quite messed up, but that’s to be expected. I believed him 100%. Precious children. So tragic.
True I have the same kind happy childhood and I didn’t live in Australia or in the US at the time. But I read many stories of especially women who were children in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s who said they were raped by a neighbor or a stranger in the way to school or back from school, or while playing alone after school or in the weekend but they just wanted to go home after the rape, they didn’t tell anyone. So at the time there was a freedom only if children played together (safety in numbers) but if a child were alone without an adult watching them, they may be hurt but not all killed , they were raped and left there, and children thought it’s something you shouldn’t talk about or you get to be blamed, for being a bad boy or bad girl.
Believe me things were no different to now. We didn't have the Internet to help know what's going on out there, and even now we don't know half of what's going on. Pedophilia was rife and not dealt with, children were being sexually abused in childrens homes and being ignored. In the UK we had pedophiles that were on our TV daily. These so called TV stars had been reported many times and were ignored and left to carry on. Jimmy Saville was 1 of the biggest peedos that was known but Gary glitter and singer was another just left to carry on. It's so hard for children to come forward even today and the seventies were horrendous for them. Lots of children get murdered every year by their so called parents that we never hear about. As a child I used to play in the local park and on a few occasions had peedos talk to me and ask if I wanted to go with them. It really wasn't the wonderful time people seem to think it was I just think adults were very naive about what could happen. As an adult I have a few experiences of perverts and 1 night walking to the pub had a ' man' scream at me to get in his car, the fear was awful but managed to get away from him. I never walk about in the dark as I always use my car but would hate to ever have to be alone at night. Oh and we had the Yorkshire ripper who killed a lot of women and worked down the road from me and lived in my city, this was in the 70s.
@toni4729 there were still plenty of bad people around, but on the whole there were bigger groups of kids hanging around together and that kept us safer
Just learned that Nancy Beaumont, the mother of these 3 kids, passed away recently in a nursing home, she was 92 and had dementia. Maybe by now she knows what actually happened to her children.
As if it weren't painful enough to live with the pain of having three children abducted and murdered but that poor lady also lived with the pain of never knowing what happened to her kids. She never had closure. As cruel as this sounds, maybe her dementia was a good thing for her in that it helped her forget the pain of her ordeal.
alot of people think the oldest girl is alive and well. there have never been signtings of the boy. but a few years after the disappearance there was a childrens show being filmed and there was a girl in the audience that looked identical to the oldest girl. so much so that 6 people that were close to the girl (including family and mother) said that was definitely her. that alone means nothing. people can mistake things. what makes it believable is that the show always took all audience members addresses. to send prizes to people. small toys with the shows name. the police got involved and investigated it. they found that the only person in the audience who gave a fake address was that girl. so a girl that looked just like the girl shows up on a tv show. and then gives a fake address. to me this lends credence to the mr satin theories and evidence. the show was maybe a treat for good behavior. this could have easily been pulled off. it seems to me like the rich satin man maybe kept her as a sex slave. and could have either gotten rid of her or maybe even let her leave at a certain point. i mean her siblings dead. likely in front of her eyes. she was very damaged if this happened in front of her. and i doubt the guy woulda let captors out of his sight when he had three. so it seems she woulda witnessed the deaths. so she could be out there. living life and completely damaged. could even have had her own place as she got older. and still be alive. munchausen syndrome type deal. the man could have easily set up a life for her and paid for her bills from beyond grave. paying bills well in advance or something or just flat out leaving money. the girl woulda been super damaged and with munchausen and never come forward. cuz it seems like the sicko woulda wanted a sex slave and done everything to train the girl. or he coulda gotten rid of her eventually. but it seems like the longer he had with the girl the easier it woulda been for him to train her with money etc. if it was her at the show then she was likely trained from a young age. and very well could be alive.
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 poor lady? Who neglected her kids? And expected her 9 yr old to WATCH them? That’s child abuse!!!! That is unacceptable!! And to babysit while they went out? She had to change diapers at 9 years of age???? That is cruel ! That is major neglect! She’s a child , and she wasn’t treated as such!!!! Neglect !!!
@@gabrielamartiniuc6322 You must understand it was a different time then. Children did not fear strangers because in Australia at least, there were hardly any child abductions. Parents were not afraid to let their children go out alone. You can't judge parents back then by today's standards.
In those years things were NOT more innocent but parents didn't know what happened to us because we were too afraid to tell anyone and talk about things like sexual assault. In the 80's things began to change and children were encouraged to tell someone if they were sexually assaulted and I as a mother told my son that he could tell me anything and his body was his own and to scream, yell and run if someone tries to touch him. This talk didn't happen when I was a child so when a priest, a retired chief of police and a friend's father attempted to sexually assault me, though I did the running part I never told my parents. We didn't talk about such things and I finally told my mom when I was in my 20's. She said "why didn't you tell me" and I answered "would you have believed me? You never told me to." I mean who went to their parents to tell them that their priest was trying to sexually assault their daughter. I didn't even know what it was called in order to verbalize what had happened.
After I got married, my girlfriend told me about her younger sister coming to her and telling her about the behavior of an old man who ran a small gas station where the kids would go to get the tires filled on their bikes, and buy candy. She told her to just stay away from there. This was late 70s. Not long after we heard that he had been assaulted on his way home one evening. We have always suspected that a father paid his own kind of justice.
As this one women said.. she would have been blamed for what happened and then punished, if anyone had believed her at all. It´s not that back then less crimes happened, but that no one talked about it because it could have damaged the reputation of the victims family but also that parents simply weren´t aware of the dangers out there. I grew up in the 90s and got sexually assaulted by an elderly man from the neighborhood when I was 8 years old... I never told anyone back then, just avoided that man. Somehow it never crossed my mind to tell my parents, what happened.. I didn´t want to cause them any problems.. this is how kids think...
@@avi.chan23 My best friends brother was a real pervert. He was always trying to touch, or making comments. Exposed himself once and when I told her about it, she just brushed it off as if she was used to him doing stuff like that. I learned to keep away from him. But no way would I ever tell an adult. I knew that there would be confrontation, anger, questions. And kids were not supposed to know about anything sexual back then.
The thought of being uninformed on the death of my children would kill me more. Probably make me go crazy. Not knowing what they went through during their last moments, I’d already feel like a failure because something happened to them in the first place then to not know what happened? Oh no. How can you grieve properly when you don’t know.
The day Australia lost its innocence. I remember this day so well. I was the same age as Jane and their disappearance scared me so much, for up until then, we children could leave home early in the morning and come home to eat some time during the day and we could play all day without a problem. I have always felt so sad for Mr & Mrs Beaumont and I had always hoped that they would get some answers. How could you ever get over loosing all three of your beloved children. :(
Bless those children, someone somewhere must know more information about this tragic day.... I hope one day the children and their parents receive the justice they so rightly deserve
I remember in the 80s when i was a kid, id run around all over the neighbourhood with my brother. We would go to peoples homes. We would chase dogs and dogs would chase us. We would play all day and didn’t think we’d ever be in danger. I was only 7 years old and my brother 8. We would come home for dinner just before the sun set. It was such great times. I am surprised I didn’t end up kidnapped like these children.
I loved & adored my children, too....but NEVER define who you are by a man, your children, your job....because that is wrong. If you lose any of those things that you wrongly define yourself with, you lose who you thought you were. We are to define ourselves by God's view of each of us. I had to learn that one, the hard way. I defibed myself by my college educated career, my husband, my children.....once I didn't have my career...I felt lost. My husband died from cancer...I didn't know who I was or what I wanted, because everything I did, was for and about him & our marriage. Defining yourself by spouses, children, jobs, is dangerous, as you lose a sense of yourself. That is why so many people commit suicide. Suicide victims create a facade in defining themselves by lovers, spouses, jobs...etc....once they lose those, they commit suicide because they are list without those things/people. Sad. Our spouse is supposed to be second only to God, our children third, family, then friends....in that order. If you make anything more important then God, you'll lose it.
when I was growing up in the fifties, everyone in the neighborhood watched everyone else's children. we were safe because everyone cared. we knew how far to go, how to act and we were aware of the dangers, and how to avoid them. I can honestly say, if someone tried to hurt one of us, they would deal with almost everyone on the block. it was an amazing thing, people were not so jaded. everyone on the block could correct us, and we respected their authority. I am not saying everyone in the world could be trusted. We knew who could be, and avoided the ones we needed to stay away from.
Spot on. Same here in the UK and lreland in 60s...neighbours were your police, guardian and judge! We could play ride bikes swim etc all day all summer. My grandmother would give us sugar sandwiches, point us away from the house and say 'see ye all for dinner at 1pm and dont bring neighbours to my door' We would be terrified of a neighbour coming to complain about something....nowyou go to ask a neighbour to sort out their child (like breaking your trees) and they threaten to smash your face in coz you upset little Johnny or Mary asking them to get out of your garden....sigh...
Where I grew up in the 80s in our neighbourhood each family looked out for each other's children. I grew up at Avoca Beach on the NSW central coast and my mum still lives in my childhood home that my parents built in 1977 and we moved up from western Sydney. We had so much freedom. One of these families that I grew up with was Grant denyer who lived 3 doors up from my home. Grant is the same age as one of my sisters.
Sadly, Nancy has recently died, never learning what ultimately happened to her children but Jim Beaumont is still alive and living in the Adelaide area. I once read that Jim had considered accompanying his children to the beach that day. Since it was a national holiday, he didn't have to go to work. But he decided to go to the office because he had to finish some paperwork. So Jim has had to live with the additional pain of knowing that if he had gone with the children to the beach, none of this would have ever happened. He has had to live with the pain of making the wrong decision ever since.
It has been reported that had been watched - they were there the day before with Jim. My feelings are they would have been taken another day if that day JIm had also been there. The predator was waiting for them to be alone.
Unfortunately, the evidence is there that the children were being groomed. Apparently Jane had a boyfriend at the beach and sadly I believe he would have got his opportunity another time.
@@bieni78 I am not aware of any such evidence but are you suggesting that Jane was planning to meet this boy at the beach that day? However, your theory that they were being groomed is plausible because this must have been someone the kids knew since they seemed to feel safe in his presence.
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 if you Google, especially I think its on Wikipedia, Aara had told her Mother that Jane had a boyfriend down at the beach. In todays knowledge of how an abductor was able to have disarmed 3 children in a busy area, they must have known him. The children were used to travelling to the beach alone and i assume the abductor had been meeting them previously on several occasions.
i think the grave was a temporary grave where the children were placed until a more permanent site was found. i think the animal remains were then placed in the grave so there would be an explanation if the 2 lads that dug the hole went to the police. whats everyone elses thoughts?
sarah w That is exactly what popped into my head..that he switched it out at some point. He wasn’t stupid. He knew he had to move them, just in case the boys came forward.
What if he buried the children in that same whole. covered it up and then buried the animals on top of the children as to distract if it was ever dug up. I mean if they found animal bones that would pretty much make them call it quits. How about going a few feet deeper than the animals?
Could just be a decoy grave to mislead , the man was no idiot... Who in their rite minds hire random strangers two dig graves for someone who they had just murdered. I suspected they would find an animal carcass.
I dont know in what business the suspect exactly was, but being so wealthy there might have been a lot of chances to cover up the bodys...maybe he had acess to acid , buried them where the cellar of a new building was made , on another property out there in the woods, etc., etc. Those people usually have different kinds of businesses going on and half a century has passed, so it might be nearly impossible to reconstruct how exactly he did it....but yes , most likely it was a temporary solution, or even him trying to fool the police....all he had to do was to dig another hole, no one witnessed and no one would remember. And the cops finding decomposed animals remains, would make them look foolish at some point , people would loose trust in them, not being able to solve the case for so long, so what if he was falsly accused anyways ? They found no evidence at all, so maybe they kept following false tracks all the time... He was not stupid at all, that's the most embarassing and frustrating thing with lots of criminals....You dont easily get a hold of them....even if you are dead sure, they are totally guilty....
This was not a matter of trusting people with your kids. It was daily life in the 1960s in Australia, Canada, UK, you name the place in the Western World.
@@zzzbbbooo young children near water, in this case the beach, need parental supervision, the drowning risk alone is why we would never have even been at the beach without our parents, let alone travel there on our own. The family being of European descent most probably weren't as aware of that risk and misjudged how safe Australia is. That's just my opinion and my experience growing up through that time
I am 70 years old. When I was 5 years old, and lived with my grandmother, I was always walking the streets of New York. No one ever watched me. I just had to be in for lunch and then dinner the rest of the day I would go out and play or go to Central Park or even Coney Island all by myself. I was always aware of evil people because we had some in our family. I was never afraid then. Now I am. I wonder why is that?
Honey Willow My thoughts exactly...wouldn’t be the first time that parents kill their children. I was 4 years old in 1966 and we were lucky if my parents allowed my oldest brother at 10 yrs to walk us to the park,,,different ere but the same evil existed. I was 8 years old when my own family was struck by tragedy when my 16 years old sister disappeared after going to a birthday party after school...we had no massive search and back then you had to wait 72 hrs before police would get involved.,,,needless to say her body was found 6 weeks later wrapped in a moving blanket in a creek. My mother “checked out” was never to be the same again. This happened in 1972 in West Chester PA.
+Honey Willow I don't for one moment think the parents were involved. Funny how we all see differently . It was stated that back in that time in that area it was common to allow children to go to the beach alone- even the policemen said it was unheard of to have a case of a child abduction or murder. I was also born in the 60's and my freedom to roam unchecked was only stopped when the Moors murders became headline news when I was about 5. You can't judge the parents looking back from what we see on a regular basis now- child abuse, sexual abuse, abduction and murder seem to happen almost daily these days. If it was the parents I am sure the police would have deduced that.
A 7 year old is a CUSTODIAN of a 5 & 4 yr old!!? Something wrong with this picture. I mean...The BEACH!? I don't think the parents took them,but they were definitely neglectful
Star Anna they were 9,7 and 4 to be accurate but I agree very young. Different world back then- I was going to the dentist on my own at 9 as both my parents worked full time .
This case draws me back time and again , it's so heart wrenching to imagine the parents and family living what amounts to my entire life long with the agony of no answers . I was born in 1967 when these children were already gone 18 months . The heaviness of heart that we outsiders feel can be nothing in comparison to the grief and frustration the children's loved ones have endured for 52yrs. I pray that they will one day at least receive some answers . What a sick man Harry Phipps was , I believe he sounds like the perfect candidate to take a family's 3 children in order to save his own reputation.
I remember my mother letting me walk six blocks and a blvd when I was in kindergarten! Five years old and I walked to and from my elementary school in Long Beach, California! This was 1965 and I guess she thought I would be safe doing this at the time. I could never have done this with my children by the 80's!!!
I don't understand how woman stay with a man that is sexually abusing their kids? this is jus horrible,i can't imagine the pain and emptiness of the mother that never knew where her babies went.smh...I jus can't imagine...poor babies💛
It tugs at my heartstrings. I have 4 grown children and 3 small grandchildren. I would cease to exist if anything happened to any of them. The ages of those children was so innocent, so fragile, so innocent and sweet. It breaks my heart. I am over protective with my children & grandchildren and don't care how many times or how much they chastise me. This planet is lurking with evil. The innocent is always at risk.
I have known people who permitted their children to be raped. In one case it was a grandmother whose boyfriend was raping girls aged 3 and 5. The grandmother took his side and fought trying to get the kids back after they were taken away. Another case was a mother whose son was raping her daughters. Not only did the mother side with the son, she was able to convince CPS to let him stay in the home with her and the sisters and he remained markedly her favorite. I think she saw the world hating him and tried to make up for that. But it was at the expense of neglecting and endangering her girls.
Because these women are in a mindset of it's better to be with a man, any man, even if he is a monster, than it is to be alone. the thought of being alone make many many people do things others wouldn't. we don't know what she went through either. I am willing to bet she had to have been abused by this guy as well, it goes with the territory. it is really sad, and fucked up, but it is more truth than fiction. after seeing some of the things I have seen in the world, it's better those kids were killed than to be kept under lock and key, tortured for years like some of these wackos do. I guess we can at least be thankful that there are people still trying to find out what happened and where they have been put all of these years.
@@gregorykrajeski6255 It's sick. I didn't tell my mom until after we were grown about the physical & sexual abuse my brother did to me. I guess I always knew she'd never believe it. She denied it until the day she died. Her precious, crack-head, thief, jail-bird son could do no wrong. It about killed me.
I believe this man watched these kids for a while before he approached the kids....he been watching them ....since the kids always went to the beach ..
I remember in the 70's we went to the neighborhood pool every day of the summer without parent supervision. The pool was fenced in and there were lifeguards. I was about 8 my youngest sister would have to have been 7 and older sister 10 or 11. We also went with older cousins every day. My youngest sister and I almost drowned and we woke up with with a classmate's sister carrying us out of the pool. We never told our mother cause we knew she would not let us go back. I would never give my kids the freedom we had in those days. Times definitely have changed.
@Martin G We all had arguments with parents back in the day I was born in the 60's and I remember arguing with my Gran (who raised me) as a kid and running away from home,,,,,,I went around the block - it wasn't a big block and I didn't go any further because I wasn't allowed to cross the road alone.
hippiehoni kidnapping of children wasn’t within the reality of the time, certainly not 3 children (the Lindbergh baby was famously kidnapped but that was for money and daddy was famous). You know your small reality and stretch of time, as you and I also cannot quite imagine the Great Depression. But just because you don’t understand the time doesn’t mean they were stupid as you hint at - it was a different reality.
Exactly, i dont care if it was 1878, hiding, dad was saying on tv how responsible jane was, so why would she hide them? Something is not quite right with this whole thing....
Agony you say for the parents ? ! The mother should of been charged with GROSS NEGLIGENCE . Who in their right mind would put their 3 BABIES on public transportation and to go swimming , with NO supervision ? The mother had just stayed at home . Evil and bad has ALWAYS been around MADD Max . Oh , your name fits you too - MADD and CRAZY are the same . Let your MADD heart break for that Mother .
mary isabell You are a HORSES ASS! The times were very different in the ‘60’s and WONDERFUL! Sorry YOUR PARENTS STUNTED AND WARPED YOU! I wish NOTHING good for you to speak this way of this agonized woman you POS!
@@maryisabell8760 More importantly Mary, the protection and abetting of all these paedos from the governernment is a disgrace. The mother may have made a carefree decision but she doesnt deserve this punishment.
That is exactly what I was thinking! Then for her to obviously still be protecting the animal by saying that she bought the purse that the man saw in the basement! What if Hayden did it? No doubt the Father was molesting him which twisted Hayden himself.
As soon as I hear a suspect is connected to politicians and powerful people, the chances of guilt go up for me. We all know what those types like to do in their spare time.
@@rahulbhatia7798 The majority of these people are corrupt, putrid, and evil human being's who are very much involved in taking children for not only there own dirty perversions but for child trafficking as well. It went on back then just like it does today.
I was on holidays in a small town, Melrose, north of Adelaide when this story broke. We had never heard of such a thing. I rode my bike 5 miles into Adelaide from Hectorville every time my parents turned their backs. I had mates who rode with me all over our suburbs stealing fruit and vegetables and nuts from market gardens trying very hard to not leave a foot print. We were in scouts, actually cubs at this time. We were in the church, Sunday school, and tennis club plus lessons on certain days of the week. We climbed waterfalls at Morialta and searched old aborigine caves. We collected beer bottles to raise money for our scout group. A local public park had olive trees in it and at certain times of the year we would collect the olives and sell the at the Italian's olive oil pressing place for 10 shillinsgs a sugar bag. Never once do I remember an unsafe incident. Fast forward one generation and my wife and I can't let our children out of our sight. My parents trusted me, the oldest to mind my brothers to go to the Norwood public pool. The trust we had in those days of our fellow man has evaporated into the ether. My grand children don't believe most of my adventure stories. Sad.
Naw I still think it’s astonishing that such little kids would go to the beach alone. It’s the beach for gods sake, drowning, sunburn etc. everyone says how it was what we all did back in the 60’s but I was born in the 60’s and there’s no way my mum would have let me take my little brother of 4 on the bus to the friggin public beach to swim alone. Sorry, it may have been an innocent time but that was still a risky move, it just was.
We weren’t allowed to go to the beach Back in the 1960’s, but we were outside alone every day. At 6 I took public buss to scout meetings in the dark in the evening and it’s still like that here. My kids were outside alone from when they were old enough and they ran around and visited each other or played in the forest or cycled around. The only thing they’re not allowed to do it play near water without grownups. They can be gone for hours at a time. We’re blessed to live in a part of the world that is safe for kids.
When you think about it, what really is the difference between then and now, if anything people are more aware now, plus the Wanda Beach murders had just happened interstate, the 2 young girls raped and murdered on the beach, so people were made aware then, people have no problem reporting anything strange now, truth be know its prob safer now than it was back then, people are more in tune with safety, and that poor girl that got raped couldnt even tell her father, and That Harry, father of the year.....!!!how many fathers were like that back then???? And getting away with it. I have a problem with the whole story to be honest, 3 kids, no adults, swimming alone, 40 plus degree heat, not sure i have the facts correct, but, they were due back at noon, mum waited til dad got hm and then at 6pm they go to the police, 6hrs missing, 40 plus heat, a 4 year old boy, no drink or snacks except lunch 6 hours earlier, im 61yrs old and even now something is wrong with this story, like everyone says, how did they just VANISH? With NO trace, sorry but why did noone remember where they went after they got the pie, and how come the girl remembers serving jane, how many kids would she have served that day, can she remember all of them, it was proven that the postman had cofussed the time and date, and the old people, were quite elderly and how did they know the man with the children was acting odd, and noone else come forward to say anything about that, did they even get to the beach????....just a theory...
@@60-second-HACKS maybe actually read the Bible instead of spouting your ignorance and understand why God doesn't interfere in worldly matters. You speak much about something you know little about
‘ No fear of being adducted, it didn’t happen’ said the man. Total nonsense! It’s happened since the beginning of time. Growing up in the 1950s our Mum warned us about accepting sweets from and/or getting into cars with strangers. This is nothing new.
EVIL and BAD has always been around . U think a parent should put her BABIES on public transportation , to go swimming unsupervised !? U think that - your a KOOK too .
@@maryisabell8760 My mother would never let me use public transport, even as an adult, or go to the swimming pool or sports at school (for 'religious reasons'). In fact, I was a victim of child abuse (beatings) and incest: she was afraid that if she let me out of her sight, unsupervised, I would spill the beans. So she made sure I went to a religious school where the nuns beat the kids and most people tried to convince me to become a nun...
I grew up in 60s and we had freedom that nobody today could possibly understand- out all day with no adult supervision- so long as we were home in time for evening meal no one worried - wonderful way to grow up - don't envy today's children in the slightest - they are prisoners in comparison to how I grew up
I had migrated to Adelaide only four months earlier from London at the age of thirteen and this shocked the hell out of me. At my age I could get around London without fear so, to see the news of the missing Beaumont children in beautiful Adelaide, just frightened me to my very core. I'm seventy now, it still makes me cry. I can't get over how three children can vanish. I couldn't understand it then and still can't. Then seven years later the two girls disappeared from Adelaide oval. What happened to them?
I had hoped they had found them,it’s a shame they are still missing ,it’s very hard for the family..I was born in 55 I had a brilliant childhood,I was able to do pretty much anything when I was with friends ,we would go on adventures for what felt like miles..we made castles and camps we fought battles and dragons..we had real childhoods..no pcs ,no phones..we could in those days..this world has changed ,not a nice place to live in now..it’s too violent ,even the streets aren’t safe..and in those days if you were in before the light came on you were fine ..if not you were grounded..life was good then,not because I was young but because people talked and listened without phones 😀
MasterCedar I'm by far not a saint,but, I'd rather stand with the few by God than with godless masses. Thank you for your warning but im ok. Hope you're ok as well.
Oh shut up with your ridiculous free will Dee J. LOL... That wasn't written into the Bible until a long time after it was allegedly written, in fact there is no original Bible, so the whole thing is made up nonsense to keep sheep like you inline!!!
Just a thought, I agree that the timing of Phips having a hole dug and all the other links seem to just scream that he was hiding something. What I would like to know is if anybody who worked at Castalloy remembers that hole being dug and possibly reopened at a later date. After all he may have been a monster in human skin, but nobody ever said he was stupid and he had years, decades even to remove the evidence. I wonder if any one has ever checked to see if he rented a backhoe or even had one on site.
One thing that hurts my heart about the responsibility Jane had is the beautiful note she left for her parents. Not so much the content but the inference that the parents had gone out at night leaving Jane in charge. 9 years old, left to have the care of your siblings AT NIGHT!, for several hours. And it doesn’t sound like a one off occasion. Yes it was a different time, but no 9 year old should have to do this. And it’s mind boggling that she was given responsibility for a four year old at the beach.
I definitely agree that it seems strange and wrong to do this, viewed through the eyes of today. But it’s worth remembering that while 9 was still young back then, a child of that age would have been significantly more mature than a 9 year old today, especially an older girl who was used to taking charge of her younger siblings. 9 year olds then would also be more streetwise, and in addition, they had more brothers and sisters than most children today, and knew how to look after children of all ages, including very young ones. It was very normal then - and still is in many communities today - for the older ones to be left to supervise. Jane was experienced in this, and often played the role of mother with the little ones, which is why presumably the parents felt they could do what they did that day. Unfortunately this tragedy revealed that the world back then wasn’t as safe as people wanted to believe at the time.
I had a lot of responsibility when I was 8. I was well on My way to being able to keep a clean and neat home at that age. My younger sibling was only 2.5 years younger, but I was made responsible for Him for much of Our adolescents. I was able to care for Myself and My Brother at that time. HOWEVER, I was deathly afraid of Adults at that point in My life. I wouldn't go into a store by myself.. not even to get the change. I didn't trust Adults at all.
It makes ur soul shake, this has me like wtf, my teen will say mom I'm fine, phss, I remind her it's other people I don't trust, always keep a close eye,
teenagers are like this though we don't see the real dangers. I walked up to the shop at 10pm last night. We seem to have no real sense, or common sense for that matter.
Chelysia Kramarenko that is ok How ever wen a parent asks bout every detail ,mind it is not to be in your business because your life is your life all in all a mother and a father really do give a s*** and I know that when my daughter is not telling me what she's doing I fear and I always tell her please be safe and no matter what happens that gives her a spook I tell her to call me because I will do whatever it takes that my friend says I love you always I am the parent that will fight till the end
I grew up amidst abuse and moved out on my own at 13 to take care of myself. I encountered more abuse when on my own and I attracted predatory people to me like a magnet, all the way through my mid 20s. I think predators can tell when you are vulnerable or lack support, as is so common among teens today. We all need to be good people and protect all children, not only our own, as best as we are able to. Be conscience of the world we live in and watch over young people if you see something that feels instinctually off. We cant always help but many young people have no one watching out for them at all and the victimization of children and teens has only become more prolific in modern times.
@Eva - First, am sorry that you've had to deal with things no young person should be submitted / exposed to at such a young age. Second, am encouraged by your post - one that appears to present that you've survived and are perhaps doing better (?). Third, your thoughts re the community responsibility in being aware of predators amidst our young people, is spot on. Victimization has always been part of the dark side of human nature, but the flip side in helping when we see a need or vulnerability has also been part of our social DNA. We, individually, have a responsibility in protecting our youth regardless of from whom they hail.
they need to pull harry fips house apart in one of the docos they said they found a childs purse in the base ment . the purse is the clue not what is but where it was found. a killer is not going to dispose of bodys out in the open .he is going to do it where no one can see him . the base ment may not of been finished 53 years ago .i am the same age as the oldest. its just my theorie.
@@marionbyrne329 I haven't gotten to that part yet, so i don't know when the purse was found. If it was back after they went missing they didn't have the DNA testing they have now. But if it was in more recent years they need to DNA test it if they still have it.
He owns the factory....just saying. Probably acid the children. But back in the day domistic violence cases were not spoken about. Yes the basement cold very well be a clue. Certainly cement shoes in the oacen another
I was concerned about the letter that Jane wrote to her parents 2 days before the disappearance. It sounded as if they'd gone away and left the children alone for the night. "I hope you had a very nice time, wherever you went" she says. Sounds as if the kids were left alone more than once. Jane was "the custodian of the younger children" as her friend says in the interview. The poor kids were sitting ducks for a pedophile looking for an easy target.
I hear it all the time how safe it was in the day, but not really. Many children went missing back then too, and women were murdered as well. Maybe it wasn't as many crimes, but they happened. Three young children taking a bus to the beach is way too much responsibility given to a nine year old.
Sadly youngsters get separated from parents like Jamie Bulger and others without parents supervision and that is when opportunist predators strike. Lesson for today is never let young children out of your sight for a second.
24 years ago in Adelaide I was a young teen and almost got abducted by two middle aged Caucasian men on a long jetty/boardwalk in broad daylight. They started running toward me and instinctively I knew they did not have good intentions. They were running and staring straight at me. I immediately ran the opposite way back down the boardwalk to some fishermen who thankfully were there. The men then stopped and watched me for a while then left. I only walked back when fishermen I stood near were leaving too. I will never forget what these 2 men looked like.. and I feel they were responsible for other missing cases. The darling Beaumont children were not the first children to be taken and will not be the last. If they were alive today they will be the biggest advocates that whilst we have evil predators on earth, we must guard our children with our lives, teach them to be safe. And also be vigilant if you see a child who is distressed. My mother always drummed into me this and I think this is why I’m alive today..
They say, "it didn't happen then." Well, obviously, it did. What didn't happen then is the news of things like this didn't spread as far. As a result if there was one abduction in a community in 20 years, people didn't change. Only when communication became more common and people began to realize this happens a lot, did they take notice and start to take steps to prevent such things. But I don't think it happens more now. I think we're just more aware of it because our communication is wider and stories spread quicker. f there's been any increase, it's only in proportion to our population. My main point is that, at that time, people were still living sort of isolated from the world at large. I am about the same age as Jane would have been. I lived in a small community and we lived the same way. But I remember that we only heard any news programs about once a day and usually only about the big cities. Local news was only found in a weekly newspaper or by word-of-mouth. So, if something happened, it was a rarity. It could happen two towns over, but you wouldn't hear about it.
I think it happens more now and we are more aware of it. Pedophiles now create rings that exchange thousands of images of children and normalize their perversion in each others eyes.
Those beautiful children are with our Heavenly Father. Jesus has his arms around them forever. Safe warm and never to be harmed again. That man that did the terrible horrible thing was I am sure severely judged by his maker. Let all of us good people keep an eye out for each other’s children and speak up when we see odd behavior. RIP Beaumont babies. ❤️💜❤️💜❤️💜❤️💜❤️
It's unimaginable now that 3 children under 9 were put on a bus without an adult and expected to return home safe to travel 2 km. It was a different time. Not only did the parents loose their children but had to live the rest of their lives blaming themselves for their demise.
I was born in 1952. We lived in Sydney, NSW. Children had the freedom to roam all day, but always to be home by dark. Our parents had no idea what mischief we got up to. My sister and I took a ride to the pool on a very hot day. I was about ten and she was nine. The couple seemed elderly so we thought we’d be safe. We even took lollies from them. We’d broken two rules. They let us out at the pool. We thanked them and vowed never to tell our parents. We knew it was wrong, but we still did it. Children in those days were taught to be polite, and as this couple seemed friendly we took the risk. No one knew where we were. It was one of my best life lessons, which I still can visualise sixty years later. I used it as a learning lesson in my years as a primary school teacher.
I can relate to the parents. I’m an American living in Japan and the Japanese let their kids as young as 4 venture out alone. Even primary school students walk to school without adults and I hardly ever lock my doors. Eventually I let my 5 yr old son out in the neighborhood. It’s perfectly safe especially compared to America.
What a tragedy cant imagine lising all my kids in one afternoon. My eldest is only 7 but very mothering and takes care of her siblings just as Jane did.
So Harry paid two boys well to dig a hole so....he could burry his cow or horse? Waste area or not - why are there cow or horse bones in a hole in the middle of a residential area.
I agree something is not right. I think they need to literally dig deeper perhaps the animal was placed above the bones to throw off anyone investigating.
@@maxalberts85 All those I know who have large animals to bury will have an excavator dig a hole on the property as close to the dead animal as possible to make burial easier. But then, rich people can do "anything" and think they can get away with it. That is, until Jesus judge their evil deeds.
It was like that here in San Diego where I grew up. Nobody bothered you. The neighborhood kids would go everywhere for hours. In the summer with no shoes.
Oh wow! You just caused a memory to surface!! When I was about 9 or 10 we were playing in a stream and I lost my shoes! They must have floated away while we were building a dam. Had to walk home barefoot, which was fine. But I cried all the way and even hid in a hedge near my house because I knew I was going to seriously cop it for losing them. (And I did get a battering for it) Crikey, haven't thought about that in 45 years!!
You are a idiot - I will call you as I see you . EVIL and BAD has always been around since the beginning of ADAM and EVE . If nothing ever happened to you or your neighborhood kids - it’s because miraculously you were NOT at the WRONG PLACE at the WRONG time !!
I think it's mind-boggling how composed the parents are even though they were so distraught. I really wish they could have had answers as to what became of their children before they both passed away.
It appears, from Jane's letter, that she had more responsibility for her siblings heaped upon her shoulders, by the parents, than she should have had at the tender age of nine years old.
I agree with that too! She was so wonderful they way she cared for everyone in the family, it seems. It is good to have responsibility but this was a little much at 9. It broke my heart when she said about the nappy on her brother and borrowed the radio. She was just a baby herself. It's a very very sad story all round.
And that is something you would recommend? When a small child is minding another, often everything is okay until an emergency happens. A fire starts, a child is pulled out to sea, someone tries to kidnap one of the babies. What on earth is a nine year old to do then?
I am 39 and I know things were very different back then as I was allowed freedom to roam the neighborhood with my friends pretty freely. I grew up in Arizona and we had a pool so I was in the pool A LOT. We lived there until I was 10. There was no way my parents would have let me or my brother near the water without supervision or take a bus ANYWHERE alone. I’m not judging, this is awful what happened but it was preventable. No matter what the era it was in. There have been murders and paedophiles, and accidental drownings for centuries. Obviously, if you don’t let your 3 children go to the beach alone, nothing like this would happen. I’m just not willing to take that chance with my own son. Better safe than sorry. And I can only imagine how horribly sorry this poor woman was. 😢
We were exactly the same, in the seventies and the eighties!! We went EVERYWHERE and did EVERYTHING and no one ever worried that something could happen…………. Even though obviously it could have/ but, it was a time of carefree and happy childhood days. Would give anything to go back to those wonderful ; responsibility free days.
I find it odd that people say "it was a different time," just because we survived. The fact that I didn't die in a car accident, even tho I had no car seat as a baby, doesn't negate the fact that car seats save children's lives. I just happened to be lucky enough to have not been involved in any car accidents with my parents...that's why I survived. Just because kids hung out alone and didn't die, doesn't change the fact that some children DO, and DID die because their parents weren't there. Statistics actually say that children are safer NOW than ever before. But that doesn't lull me into a false sense of security, and let my kids go out and play at the beach without me...because...hey *I SURVIVED*...so let's throw caution to the wind and hope mine are just as lucky. I grew up in a town of maybe 500 people when I was around the ages of 7-10, and then we went back every summer after that. Yeah, it was safer because you literally ended up knowing everyone. I now live in a city with millions of people. I'm not letting my kids do the same stuff I did. It's not even comparable. Kids get nabbed riding around their own block. And the parents will forever say, "If I had only gone with them..."
‘All these things, they’ve never happened before! Never in history, and never to kids!’ canadian residential schools: *exist in recent history (1996) to be exact*
Update: February, 2018, the correct site the men had dug the hole was searched. The bones of a large animal. such as a cow or horse were found. It seemed promising. Unfortunately, yet another dead end in the search for the Beaumont children.
yes but that could be a ruse. they still could have been near there. :(
In a Hollywood movie? Maybe. In real world? No way.
Dam, what a harsh spoil....first comment I see, no point watching the show now!
Don't read comments before viewing. That's what I do. Besides, if it had been solved, it would've been all over the news.
chelleoj I
While walking alone across a major car/pedestrian bridge during a light morning rain, on my way to summer school in 1973, I was approached by a man in a four-door, white Ford Fairlane. The man gingerly took his car to a virtual crawl, which I thought was quite unusual on this very busy pedestrian bridge. He addressed me through his passenger window. "Where are you going, boy? Can I give you a lift?" I turned to look at the man. He was white, about 40 (my Dad's age back them), and he was wearing a blue golf shirt. Although I made eye contact with this man for less than 10 seconds, I can vividly remember specific details about his appearance as if it were yesterday. I am 54 years old now and to say this memory has haunted me in the intervening years is an understatement. In contrast, most weekends my older, 13-year-old brother would routinely hitch-hike to the local cinema. His specialty was accepting rides from strangers and he always arrived safely to his destination. In those days, our parents never felt the need to have heartfelt discussions with their children about "stranger-danger". When I think about the details of my personal situation unfolding upon that bridge, there was something about the helpful, pleasant, smiling man in the white Ford Fairlane which literally made me shiver. I politely declined his invitation stating, "No. thank you" and continued to walk straight ahead toward the school less than four blocks away. However, the man persisted in his plea for me to accept his offer of a ride and swung open his car's front passenger door. He said, "Come on, boy, it's raining. You don't want to get wet." Without even glancing at the man, I intuitively crossed the four-lane bridge from behind his vehicle and I proceeded to run the remaining span of the bridge from the other side. I have no idea what the man did next, because I had absolute tunnel vision. In that moment of my life as a small child in a big city, I was inexplicably terrified, but did not truly know why. I finally made it to school--exhausted, out of breath, and suffering from a mild stomach cramp. Later during lunch, I instinctively realized my eight-year-old person knew I had done something incredible for myself: I had learned a valuable lesson in self-preservation. Then and now, I shudder to think what could have happened if I climbed into that friendly man's vehicle. Could I have been just another missing child statistic in 1973? Possibly, possibly not. Nevertheless, I am most grateful to God I was not.
May God continue to bless you
You most likely dodged a bullet. That man was up to no good! There's a reason you were petrified and shivering. His intentions were vile and you sensed it! Bless!
@@jacquelinegrayden4706l
I have goosebumps!! Good on you for knowing better!!
You did good
For those of you who blame irresponsible parenting for this tragedy, kindly use a little perspective:
One hundred years ago, a nine-year old was considered old enough to take on a job or an apprentice.
Fifty years ago, when I lived, a nine-year old was given enough responsibility to babysit, do household tasks, and to come and go within the confines of the community where a family lived. This was mine and my peer's experience.
Today, a large number of children are regularly allowed to browse the internet or use a mobile phone without true supervision and be subjected to many abuses and dangers of on line predators, not to mention peer bullying on an unprecedented level. Sadly, many children do not know they are being abused, because they are becoming acquainted with sexual behaviors/acts on the internet and some start becoming willing participants even text and meet with a predator.
Think about whether the dangers of today are less than former generations.
Wow, you so accurately summarized today’s viewpoint of good vs bad parenting. I was 11 years old in 1966 and the oldest of 4 children. I well remember being responsible for looking after them and also being free in summer or after school to wander at will. I also remember being put on a train in charge of my siblings to travel 250 miles from our parents home to our grandparents farm. This developed responsibility in children. Now, I can’t drive past an elementary school during lunch or after school for all the mothers in gas guzzling SUVS fighting for parking space. Their precious fat little children apparently can’t navigate 2 blocks home by themselves. Indeed, young adults don’t seem to have many coping skills for any hardship including the present pandemic.
Because it was acceptable DIESNT MAKE IT RIGHT IR OKAY TO NOT SUPERVISE SMALL VULNERABLE CHILDREN..... TAKING A CHANCE ON THEIR SAFETY!
@@cheekyrose8045 I agree! My parents let us do so much but they still had reigns on us. I'm so thankful
I think you are right. My mom is from 1954 and has 3 sisters. When they were 7, 8 and 9 they took their little sister to a playground. And she was 8 months old… different times
To be quite honest it sounds like the mother just wanted the children out from under her feet! She was irresponsible to expect a 9 year old to be in sole charge of two younger children especially as the little boy was not much more than a baby it was beyond irresponsibility!
I don't understand the trend to have background noise, music, etc equally as loud as the narrative, effectively drowning their voices and annoying the ears
U aren't kidding.the background music is very annoying
Agree 100% it’s is just competing noise. Very annoying. As soon as the reporter is on the beach with no noise in background it improves but the quickly goes back to music and voices at same volume.
It makes me switch off, it’s terrible
It happens in tv and movies too. Very off putting and distracting.
I'm tired of all the stupid dancing too. The wiggles generation just hasn't grown up.
In 1959 when I was in 3rd grade a man tried to lure my younger sister and me into a car. We were on our way to school. I grabbed her hand and ran all the way to the school. She reported what happened to her teacher. I was called to the office and gently questioned. My mother took us home and called my Dad home from work. All I wanted to do was sit close to him on the couch. He suggested going for a ride so we all got in the car and drove aimlessly around. When I spotted the car parked in front of a home I started crying and my sister said that was the car. Dad took home and left. Years later I found out that he had gone back and confronted the man who denied everything. My dad went around to all his neighbors, the police and talked to the parents at the school. He gave a description, the address, and he and a group of men went to tell him no one was going to help him if anything happened to him. I heard he was arrested for trying to take other children. I don't know what happened after that but heard much much later he died while in prison.
I had always been a quiet, shy child but after that I could never talk to any strangers. It was no until I was in my 30s when I heard of his death that I felt freed from fear.
I can relate to your story. My sister and I were nearly abducted as children. I still remember it today and I was 4 at the time. If my Aunt Sara hadn't run out and grabbed us, we'd be dead. He was a local business man who stalked us. My parents were terrified. He was finally arrested.
I'm so sorry for what you endured, but so happy you shared your experience. Your dad is my new hero.
I'm glad that you are all better now!
@DianaRose Goodwin. Your dad was extraordinary in taking such action ... especially for the era where
@DawnRose Goodwin.Children were pooh poohed. I was almost assaulted by our parish priest but told no one cos they would not have believed me and labeled me.a troublemaker
I was 4 when they went missing, they have never been forgotten, my mum talked about the Beaumont children often.
I feel so sorry for these poor lost children, and their parents. I was born in Jetty Road, Glenelg and lived there, and was the same age as Jane when they went missing. I remember the news headlines on TV, and the poster going up outside out school. I know my Dad was worried sick about what had happened. As the reporter on the documentary said, we all used to just wander down the beach on our own and play for hours, although Dad always drummed it into me, never to talk to strangers even before this. I was saddened to learn that their Mum passed away, but hopefully now she will be re-united with her kiddies, and find peace at last 🌹 xx
Feel sorry for thousands of natives your English murdered
I think their dad has since passed away too, heartbreakingly. Neither will never know what happened to their children. 😭😭
Oh no, this is such a heartbreaking story😥 but l hope and pray that mum and dad are re-united in heaven with their children ♥️ and all have finally found peace 🕊️
If I were granted one wish with my dying breath it'd be that the rich and powerful never, ever get away with heinous acts of rape, sexual assault, and murder.
Or anybody
Lol if you hade on wish it would be this? Why not make the world perfect??
Save that breath. They won't be getting away with anything. They can hide and run from Man's justice, but not from Universal Retribution.
Karma's a bitch..
What makes you think the person was rich and powerful?
Gotta start with the Vatican, and the entire Catholic church.
Telling kids not to talk to strangers isn't enough. There are multiple social experiments posted on UA-cam where parents tell their kids not to talk to strangers, then a researcher approaches the same kids minutes later with a story or pet dog and the kids start talking and walk away with them. These predators appear friendly. The big, bad stranger in a kid's mind is like a TV show villain. But predators look normal, friendly, even helpful in real life.
When ! was 10, I am 53 now, a girl who I was friends with in a club we belonged to vanished. In the end a neighbor eventually confessed and told police where they could find her body. It confused everything as it wasn't a bad man, but a neighbor she had always known so she went into the house with him to get change for an errand. All of a sudden friends fathers who we had known forever would almost back away from you after it happened. My dad did the same thing. Eventually things settled back down but things never were quite the same.
U tube. Key word. In this day and age, not one of us is safe. Even in our own homes. Doors locked. I remember being able to go to bed, only screen doors latched. Still, we were safe. This is an evil time to live in. I feel humanity has changed, and, we are never going to be safe again. The peace we felt so many years ago is gone. And, that is a fact.
The real problem with telling kids not to talk to strangers is the majority of sexual abusers are family and friends, not strangers. Sadly, the most vulnerable children are the ones whose families are in crisis, or who have suffered neglect or abuse. They are easily groomed. Children need trusted adults to stand up for them.
This to a T! My parents told me all about what could happen so I understood the dangers. I was not told to simply not speech to strangers! I have noticed telling children not to speak to strangers actually causes some to freeze up!Not to mention that so many children are proven to want to rebel against what their parents tell them not to do. I do not feel I lost out on childhood at all, simply because I knew true dangers existed! I had a wonderful childhood and I knew what to be aware of because my parents thought enough of my intelligence to tell me.
@@mrsfoleylindaruth5984 blimey. I bet you are fun at parties!!
People think it was safer back then. It was not. People just didn't realize the danger. My own mother had several encounters. One was as a young girl, I think she was still living in New York at the time. A woman in a red car pulled up near her and her sister and was trying to convince them to get in (they didn't). Later it was discovered there was a big scheme involving kidnapping children and selling them to adoptive families.
Another was when they were older. She went to do laundry with her sister (it was a huge family, ten kids, so a lot of laundry). They basically spent all day at the laundromat and had to park the car in the alleyway because there was no space left. When it got dark they were going to leave, but when they went int he alleyway two men pulled up and blocked it off with their truck. With the path blocked, they got out of the truck and were approaching. My mom was tiny and young-looking even as an adult, and her sister was about 7 months pregnant. Anyway, they got in their car and my mom told her to "get them out of there", so her sister floored it and got out by scraping up both sides of the car to slip through.
My aunts have also mentioned an abuser they fell prey to who lived in the area.
Times weren't safer. People just didn't realize how unsafe it was. Usually nothing will happen, but it only takes one time to end up never seeing your kids again. The reason we changed how we raise kids to be more protective isn't because it was safe then and it's dangerous now. It's because news started spreading more and people became aware of the dangers. You can find a plethora of unsolved disappearances and murders from back then.
You nailed it! You are absolutely right. It's silly to think that predators just happened one day, and then boom, freedom and innocence were gone. No, what happened is that the knowledge that these things happen began to be shared. That's all it was.
Exactly!
I dont think things were reported as much or that it wasnt reported as much and with police corruption etc etc it was swept under the carpet IMO
Right!?
If anything, it's safer now. There are cameras, cell phones, videos taken by tourists, etc.
Some people just think it was safer because they weren't aware of the dangers.
People like to complain about how other people are always taking selfies and everyone is always on their phones.
But too bad there weren't cell phones back then.
@@krystalhaugland Yeah, just look at the Delphi murders. There's a good chance that the only reason there was evidence was because they were taking pics of each other.
Or the murders in Idaho, where there was a bunch of video evidence of what they were up to.
Or Shanquella Robinson's murder.
Video/picture evidence was important for all of the cases.
(Poor kids, though.)
This tragedy reminds me of the disappearance of the Sodder children on Christmas morning, 1945, in Fayetteville, West Virginia. The Sodders had 10 children, a son was away in the Army at the time, the others were home. Their home caught fire on sometime around 1 a.m., the parents & four of the children escaped, but five other children couldn't get out. The fire department was summoned but didn't arrive until hours later, after the house had been reduced to ashes. There was no trace of the 5 remaining children, no bones, nothing, no sign of them--they seemed to have vanished into thin air. The parents believed their missing children were abducted, but by who, how & why they had no idea, same for the Beaumonts.. They posted a billboard in the area w/the photos of the five kids, pleading for help. The parents died w/out ever finding their children. Very interesting story, also very tragic.
I have heard about that story too, but that was a completely different matter, that related to the Italian mafia.
@@edinak5805 The mafia connection was a theory that was presented. This was a very suspicious case. Phone lines cut, doors unlocked, ladder moved. I wish that they would collect dna from surviving family members and run it through the data bases just on the chance that it might match somewhere.
Did they ever solve that mystery?
@@leeblanchard7106Officially, they died in the fire, though the family still maintain they were abducted. And if they weren't, it's never been established how the fire began for sure. Personally, whilst I tend to fall on the side of the people who think the abduction idea was wishful thinking on behalf of grieving parents desperate to believe their children could be alive (absolutely understandable) I suspect the Mafia WERE involved in setting the fire.
Losing one child is bad enough but ALL of them?
Nobody should experience that....ever. ☹️
RIP nancy.. .. may you be forever with your children 😥
So sad,not knowing where her children went 😔😥
My son was lost in a Kresge store for under two minutes and to this day my heart still races! I can't imagine the type of monster that would do something like this!
how sad.....poor Jane all that responsibility, she must have been terrified when she realised there was nothing she could do to protect her younger siblings
I really wonder why the mother let them go alone, took a bus and go to the beach. Unbearable!!!
I agree, it was too much responsibility for a child. It’s not the mothers fault that this monster killed her children. The blame lays solely at his feet, but children can’t be expected to navigate adult situations alone. They simply don’t have the experience or tools needed. Giving a 9 yr old the responsibility to navigate bus schedules, buy food, and monitor preschoolers at the beach is next to insanity, no matter WHAT year this was! I was around her age at that time, and that wasn’t a common occurrence. I’m heartbroken for all involved, save the pig that took them, there’s a special place in hell for people who hurt children, the elderly, and animals.
Voracious Reader A nine year old, whether they live now or in the 60s, is not emotionally, psychologically, physically, or temperamentally equipped to care for young, preschool children through bus rides, purchasing and serving meals, and being responsible for their safety at the ocean! It’s unfair to ask her to be. Watching them in the safety of their own homes while mom runs an errand? Yeah, maybe. But this outing had far too many risks to put on a child’s shoulders, as we all now know. This isn’t judging the mother, I’m sure she loved her children just as much as all we mothers do. And just FYI...giving your child responsibility for something they are capable of doing, and letting them prove to themselves that they are capable DOES build responsible adults with great self confidence. Giving them responsibilities clearly over their heads serves to frustrate them and tear down their self esteem.
@@heathergreen4184 I agree with you that a 9 year old shouldn't be left solely responsible for the safety and well being of two younger siblings. Too much can go wrong that they are not prepared to handle. However, in the time period that this all took place, it was indeed a common occurrence that an older sibling of nine would be in charge of her younger siblings! And as far as "navigating" bus schedules, paying for meals, etc. They took the bus to the beach quite regularly so it wasn't like she had to map out an entire road trip . And buying food was much simpler then. You simply told the person at the counter what you wanted and they took your money and made your change. I remember even as late as the early 70's when I was a kid that most of my friends had the tag a long younger sibling that went everywhere with us. We ran all over the place unattended! The mall. the movie theater, the pool, fast food restaurants, all over the neighborhood and beyond! It was a different time with different rules of thumb! We left in the morning and had all day to run. We went home when the street lights came on. This was in Houston, TX. by the way!!!! Not some small town with a dirt road .....
Lanie Valmadrid Reyes I grew up in this era things were very different. You need to look at historical context of society
what a darling child Jane was! that letter! how adorable!
Michael Weiskopf no it wasn’t her parents kept the letter. You are confused.
Poor Jane, she probably did everything she could to protect her siblings from the monster that took them.
To all of those people too young to have lived during those decades - stuff your petty, judgmental claptraps. You didn't live in the culture and have absolutely no reference point, except hindsight. These decades didn't hide children behind fences to protect them - kids were allowed a certain amount of leeway to explore their world, were taught to be level-headed, follow directives of their elders, and people watched out for each other. Neighborhood parents admonished the children in their vicinity in the absence of parents or older family member. Only the very bad, bold kids talked back and they heard about it, later. You simply didn't live in the same sort of world, any more than if it were 19th c. America, or WWII Britain. As this documentary clearly points out, the evil was done by someone nobody would have suspected - someone above suspicion, at least in the eyes of the law/establishment. It matters not a bit whether that occurred in the 1960s, 80s or 00s; wealth and power buy a veneer of respectability. Your armchair quarterbacking a half-century after the fact is mean and useless.
amsterdamsel agreed! Well said.
amsterdamsel Well said!
we did it .....everyone did it......
Chan167 I’m 33 and my childhood was the same. Free and safe to explore but warned about strangers (and of inappropriate behavior in general) be back in time for dinner, and off we went! But times definitely changed. The day after my 11th birthday my sister’s high school friend went missing and no one knew what became of her for 20 years until a year or so ago. I remember my understanding of the world as kind of freezing in place and being cut distinctly in two halves the day she went missing. Everyone who knew her lived in the innocence of a simpler time just the day before, and have been in the cold reality of the world ever since.
@paul pallott - ???
I think I heard the parents of these children never moved house for a long time as they thought what they'd feel like if they came back to someone else living their home... Can't imagine what those parents went through, waiting and waiting 😭
They did sell as they got divorced sadly.
@@susanandrews3859 , their parents have died. They are all together now.
It's interesting that they have failed to comment on a revelation that the younger sister had stated that 'Jane had a boyfriend'. In my mind, the gentleman who kidnapped them, had gained their confidence over a long period of time. Making it easier to convince the kids to go with him willingly.
Except, he was no "gentleman".
Absolutely, it is grooming. It is the norm. Kids normally are not snatched abruptly, although this does indeed happen, it is more often grooming over a period of time. Usually they promise kids to secrecy of some sort so they don't spill the beans to their parents. You have to teach kids about these kind of snakes. Your kids need to know that no adult should be asking them to keep things secret etc
I think the satin freak saw the kids going to the beach and they caught his eye abd he spent time grooming them. Protected by his well to do paedo friends. There's too many coincidences and I don't believe in coincidences! That was Jane's purse. What an evil man who destroyed everyone around him.
Oh, to lose 3 children. As a parent, I can't imagine the agony.
Vicki Noeske Oh yes! Endless agony losing one child..let alone 3
A mom always longs for her dead child..A piece of her is gone..I think about my son everyday..These poor parents unimaginable pain and sorrow.
Lisa Jordan So very sorry about your son. There are no words. It makes me so angry that the guy got away with it; just went on like nothing happened. Hopefully, he's paying for it now.
I would die- don't think i would survive , not 3 children. God help them all.
Lisa Jordan 💔😘
dreams of turtles I don't think I could go on if I lost all my kids this is sad very sad such sweet looking kids so inocent hope they Weill solve this case very soon for the parents
I was living in Adelaide at that time and I think that its a huge responsibility for a nine year old to look after a four year old boy.
Despite the fact she was mature for her age. I wouldn't trust anyone.
Re: "age of innocence." I don't know about south Australia, but in mid-America (Arkansas) small town life in the 1950's we children had a lot of freedom. We "town kids" walked to and from school until we were old enough to have cars. With both parents working we did in fact go by ourselves to each other's homes, to the swimming pool, empty lots to play ball. In many ways it was like a village, with people paying attention to anything or anyone unusual or out of place. Times and places are indeed different. The argument about the "failures" of parents, police, etc, is not the point.
You are right. Tragic events abound everywhere. I was just saying that every time, place, person, situation is different. And every one has its share of "guilty" people who could have acted differently. This story touches a nerve of vulnerability in people; those who have responded here do so out of individual, unique experiences.
Marcia Dodd I grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas. During the summers we were out the door just as the sun was rising. We rode our bikes all over town. Our parents had no idea where we were. We played in creeks, swam in creeks, ponds and small lakes. We ate wild berries, collected glass pop bottles and returned them for pocket change and buy ice cream and hot dogs from Dairy Queen or the small mom and pop shops. We were instructed to be home by dark. I may of had one incident that "spooked" me or made feel ill at ease. When we came home at night my parents never questioned where we were or what we had done. Those were blissful days. I am so glad I was a kid then and not now.
It was different. A great time playing outdoors not on a phone or computer.
@@MizBryteEyez Sounds like my small Southern town. We left early and went all over. Friends houses, the creek, railroad tracks, the woods, skating rink, walked to the stores nearby. Came home at lunch, left again and home when the porchlight was on. Different times. More innocent times.
Marcia
Unfortunately there has ALWAYS been child abuse even in biblical times. It was just kept more in wraps.
Based on my own experience when I was 9 years old (I am 59 now), I believe they were taken. I was at Glenelg sideshows with my 4 younger brothers and sister. A man gave us quite a lot of money to play on sideshows and hung around us for a long time. I didn't think of stranger danger - I just thought he was very nice giving us so much money and thought it was a bit strange that a grown up man wanted to hang around a bunch of kids. Then at some point, to my horror, I noticed my younger sister missing. I found her , maybe 300 meters along the beach with this man. I ran down the beach, grabbed her and took her back to my parents car and frantically told my parents. In those days the police station was right near those showgrounds and car park, but my dead beat parents never got involved in anything. We just all drove home. I remember how disturbed I felt that they did nothing when we knew that three other children around our age (the Beaumonts) had gone missing.
When I was about 56, I went over the details with my sister, mainly trying to work out how old we were when this happened. Then on her urging. I went to police. She lived interstate, so I gave them the email conversations that I had with her about the incident.
I can't be sure - it was 50 years ago, and I'm not sure how reliable my 9 year old memory is, but the image of him in my mind is consistent with that of Harry Phipps as shown in media photograph. He had a hat on (the sort men wore in the 60s) so I can't recognize the top of his head. What I noted in my statement to police though, is that he "presented" as being middle class. I wish now I had elaborated more. What I meant was that he was well dressed and well spoken. I was so disheartened when this latest search come to nothing. I thought this time they may have solved that crime.
Sorry - I'm too scared to use my real name in writing this.
ruth Hanckel You saved your sister's life.... she's alive due to your acting quickly....
Like Jane (the eldest child), I was considered responsible and capable and my parents and everyone else trusted me. I took my 4 little siblings on the bus to the pool, to the city, to the beach just as Jane's parents entrusted Jane to do.. Then because of my lack of vigilance , a horrifying and tragic event could have happened. When I replay it in my mind 50 years later, I dont know that I feel that proud of myself. :'(
The best I can say for myself is that he was an adult able to outsmart me. I thought it was weird at aged 9 that a grown up man would want to spend so much time playing with us, and the amount of money was more than our parents could afford to give us, but it still didnt set off alarm bells.
It says on the video that it is believed the children went willingly with the man. They weren't dragged kicking and screaming. YES - my younger sister went willingly and was walking beside him when I found her. At first I couldnt understand why a grown up man let a child so far away from where he found her knowing that the child probably would not be able to find their way back. THEN the alarm bells rang in my head and I thought of the kidnapped Beaumont children. Then I got scared and thought this was an attempted kidnapping. I grabbed my sister and got away from him as fast as I could. Meanwhile I had left my other 3 siblings on their own at the sideshows.
It was very emotional for me as this latest search unfolded in the media. I couldnt be certain that the photo was him - but it was certainly consistent with what I remember. Try to think back 50 years to your 4th grade teacher. I have a vision in my mind of what he looked like, but if I got given a photo of him, I'm not sure I could make a positive ID. When I was talking to police, they told me the story was all consistent with what they knew of the Beaumont children. (At the time, I didnt know the perpetrator had given them a generous amount of money as he had with us). In our case however, he only took one child while the others were distracted playing on the sideshows with his money.
ruth Hanckel A child as young as you were, lacked the guile that this monster had... how would you have been able to see through his tricks? So I think you're a hero and your sister owes her life to your quick thinking !
Thats really kind - thank you. I should point out here, that given the subject matter, I have not used my real name.
This is the 1st I've heard of the missing children ,I'm In the U.S...My Heart breaks for the parent's !!! God Bless Them All
I grew up during the 60/70's in England. We were out all day. I was molested. He was caught. Mum had to still let us grow up. Not sure how she did it. I knew about it, and managed. Wasn't till I had kids and struggled to let go. The psychologist made me realize why I did hold on and helped me to let go. My kids are now adults and healthy.
I'm so very sorry that happened to you. You were an innocent child. Credit to you for not letting it define you & raising healthy kids.
You poor soul 💔
Being free as a child back in that time period was rich. I hate that our children cannot do that anymore. I had so many adventures. We could explore our world - interact with it without fear. The fact that it felt safe is a state of being that cannot be described. My childhood was rough in many ways, but it was that freedom to explore the world that made it so memorable. Being in charge of your siblings was a badge of honor - and made the adventures even more fun. I’m so glad I had a childhood during those times of innocence.
And I think that one man took them - whose son spoke about seeing them. His son was a drug addict and quite messed up, but that’s to be expected. I believed him 100%. Precious children. So tragic.
True I have the same kind happy childhood and I didn’t live in Australia or in the US at the time. But I read many stories of especially women who were children in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s who said they were raped by a neighbor or a stranger in the way to school or back from school, or while playing alone after school or in the weekend but they just wanted to go home after the rape, they didn’t tell anyone. So at the time there was a freedom only if children played together (safety in numbers) but if a child were alone without an adult watching them, they may be hurt but not all killed , they were raped and left there, and children thought it’s something you shouldn’t talk about or you get to be blamed, for being a bad boy or bad girl.
I can relate to the freedom children had back in the 1950's and 1960's. It was wonderful.
There was nothing to fear back then, anywhere in the world. This was horrific, one hell of a shock.
Believe me things were no different to now. We didn't have the Internet to help know what's going on out there, and even now we don't know half of what's going on. Pedophilia was rife and not dealt with, children were being sexually abused in childrens homes and being ignored. In the UK we had pedophiles that were on our TV daily. These so called TV stars had been reported many times and were ignored and left to carry on. Jimmy Saville was 1 of the biggest peedos that was known but Gary glitter and singer was another just left to carry on. It's so hard for children to come forward even today and the seventies were horrendous for them. Lots of children get murdered every year by their so called parents that we never hear about. As a child I used to play in the local park and on a few occasions had peedos talk to me and ask if I wanted to go with them. It really wasn't the wonderful time people seem to think it was I just think adults were very naive about what could happen. As an adult I have a few experiences of perverts and 1 night walking to the pub had a ' man' scream at me to get in his car, the fear was awful but managed to get away from him. I never walk about in the dark as I always use my car but would hate to ever have to be alone at night. Oh and we had the Yorkshire ripper who killed a lot of women and worked down the road from me and lived in my city, this was in the 70s.
@toni4729 there were still plenty of bad people around, but on the whole there were bigger groups of kids hanging around together and that kept us safer
Just learned that Nancy Beaumont, the mother of these 3 kids, passed away recently in a nursing home, she was 92 and had dementia. Maybe by now she knows what actually happened to her children.
Reunited in heaven 😢
As if it weren't painful enough to live with the pain of having three children abducted and murdered but that poor lady also lived with the pain of never knowing what happened to her kids. She never had closure. As cruel as this sounds, maybe her dementia was a good thing for her in that it helped her forget the pain of her ordeal.
alot of people think the oldest girl is alive and well. there have never been signtings of the boy. but a few years after the disappearance there was a childrens show being filmed and there was a girl in the audience that looked identical to the oldest girl. so much so that 6 people that were close to the girl (including family and mother) said that was definitely her. that alone means nothing. people can mistake things. what makes it believable is that the show always took all audience members addresses. to send prizes to people. small toys with the shows name. the police got involved and investigated it. they found that the only person in the audience who gave a fake address was that girl. so a girl that looked just like the girl shows up on a tv show. and then gives a fake address. to me this lends credence to the mr satin theories and evidence. the show was maybe a treat for good behavior. this could have easily been pulled off. it seems to me like the rich satin man maybe kept her as a sex slave. and could have either gotten rid of her or maybe even let her leave at a certain point. i mean her siblings dead. likely in front of her eyes. she was very damaged if this happened in front of her. and i doubt the guy woulda let captors out of his sight when he had three. so it seems she woulda witnessed the deaths. so she could be out there. living life and completely damaged. could even have had her own place as she got older. and still be alive. munchausen syndrome type deal. the man could have easily set up a life for her and paid for her bills from beyond grave. paying bills well in advance or something or just flat out leaving money. the girl woulda been super damaged and with munchausen and never come forward. cuz it seems like the sicko woulda wanted a sex slave and done everything to train the girl. or he coulda gotten rid of her eventually. but it seems like the longer he had with the girl the easier it woulda been for him to train her with money etc. if it was her at the show then she was likely trained from a young age. and very well could be alive.
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 poor lady? Who neglected her kids? And expected her 9 yr old to WATCH them? That’s child abuse!!!! That is unacceptable!! And to babysit while they went out? She had to change diapers at 9 years of age???? That is cruel ! That is major neglect! She’s a child , and she wasn’t treated as such!!!! Neglect !!!
@@gabrielamartiniuc6322 You must understand it was a different time then. Children did not fear strangers because in Australia at least, there were hardly any child abductions. Parents were not afraid to let their children go out alone. You can't judge parents back then by today's standards.
In those years things were NOT more innocent but parents didn't know what happened to us because we were too afraid to tell anyone and talk about things like sexual assault. In the 80's things began to change and children were encouraged to tell someone if they were sexually assaulted and I as a mother told my son that he could tell me anything and his body was his own and to scream, yell and run if someone tries to touch him. This talk didn't happen when I was a child so when a priest, a retired chief of police and a friend's father attempted to sexually assault me, though I did the running part I never told my parents. We didn't talk about such things and I finally told my mom when I was in my 20's. She said "why didn't you tell me" and I answered "would you have believed me? You never told me to." I mean who went to their parents to tell them that their priest was trying to sexually assault their daughter. I didn't even know what it was called in order to verbalize what had happened.
After I got married, my girlfriend told me about her younger sister coming to her and telling her about the behavior of an old man who ran a small gas station where the kids would go to get the tires filled on their bikes, and buy candy. She told her to just stay away from there. This was late 70s. Not long after we heard that he had been assaulted on his way home one evening. We have always suspected that a father paid his own kind of justice.
As this one women said.. she would have been blamed for what happened and then punished, if anyone had believed her at all. It´s not that back then less crimes happened, but that no one talked about it because it could have damaged the reputation of the victims family but also that parents simply weren´t aware of the dangers out there. I grew up in the 90s and got sexually assaulted by an elderly man from the neighborhood when I was 8 years old... I never told anyone back then, just avoided that man. Somehow it never crossed my mind to tell my parents, what happened.. I didn´t want to cause them any problems.. this is how kids think...
@@avi.chan23 My best friends brother was a real pervert. He was always trying to touch, or making comments. Exposed himself once and when I told her about it, she just brushed it off as if she was used to him doing stuff like that. I learned to keep away from him. But no way would I ever tell an adult. I knew that there would be confrontation, anger, questions. And kids were not supposed to know about anything sexual back then.
Prayers to all the babies and children missing/ abused. Please lord protect them 🙏
I remember my dad always telling me when my kid was young "your phone, your purse. Nothing is important. Never take your eyes off your son"
I would rather my children be found dead than to never ever know what happened to them, where were they. I think I would lose my mind.
Agree...
Although I don't have children but I agree... (Can just imagine... Not to know must be the worst...)
The thought of being uninformed on the death of my children would kill me more. Probably make me go crazy. Not knowing what they went through during their last moments, I’d already feel like a failure because something happened to them in the first place then to not know what happened? Oh no. How can you grieve properly when you don’t know.
E. Green Agreed. I would look for them for the rest of my life.
Of course.
Same 😣
The day Australia lost its innocence. I remember this day so well. I was the same age as Jane and their disappearance scared me so much, for up until then, we children could leave home early in the morning and come home to eat some time during the day and we could play all day without a problem. I have always felt so sad for Mr & Mrs Beaumont and I had always hoped that they would get some answers. How could you ever get over loosing all three of your beloved children. :(
Bless those children, someone somewhere must know more information about this tragic day.... I hope one day the children and their parents receive the justice they so rightly deserve
I remember in the 80s when i was a kid, id run around all over the neighbourhood with my brother. We would go to peoples homes. We would chase dogs and dogs would chase us. We would play all day and didn’t think we’d ever be in danger. I was only 7 years old and my brother 8. We would come home for dinner just before the sun set. It was such great times. I am surprised I didn’t end up kidnapped like these children.
My kids are my sanity. It would be the end of me if I were to lose them
Man me too... mine are my everything. I cannot even begin to phantom the parents pain.
I loved & adored my children, too....but NEVER define who you are by a man, your children, your job....because that is wrong. If you lose any of those things that you wrongly define yourself with, you lose who you thought you were. We are to define ourselves by God's view of each of us. I had to learn that one, the hard way. I defibed myself by my college educated career, my husband, my children.....once I didn't have my career...I felt lost. My husband died from cancer...I didn't know who I was or what I wanted, because everything I did, was for and about him & our marriage. Defining yourself by spouses, children, jobs, is dangerous, as you lose a sense of yourself. That is why so many people commit suicide. Suicide victims create a facade in defining themselves by lovers, spouses, jobs...etc....once they lose those, they commit suicide because they are list without those things/people. Sad. Our spouse is supposed to be second only to God, our children third, family, then friends....in that order. If you make anything more important then God, you'll lose it.
Diane Morgan Well said.. its a burden on your family to weigh them with your sanity..
Dawn Heller exactly
when I was growing up in the fifties, everyone in the neighborhood watched everyone else's children. we were safe because everyone cared. we knew how far to go, how to act and we were aware of the dangers, and how to avoid them. I can honestly say, if someone tried to hurt one of us, they would deal with almost everyone on the block. it was an amazing thing, people were not so jaded. everyone on the block could correct us, and we respected their authority. I am not saying everyone in the world could be trusted. We knew who could be, and avoided the ones we needed to stay away from.
Spot on. Same here in the UK and lreland in 60s...neighbours were your police, guardian and judge! We could play ride bikes swim etc all day all summer. My grandmother would give us sugar sandwiches, point us away from the house and say 'see ye all for dinner at 1pm and dont bring neighbours to my door' We would be terrified of a neighbour coming to complain about something....nowyou go to ask a neighbour to sort out their child (like breaking your trees) and they threaten to smash your face in coz you upset little Johnny or Mary asking them to get out of your garden....sigh...
Where I grew up in the 80s in our neighbourhood each family looked out for each other's children. I grew up at Avoca Beach on the NSW central coast and my mum still lives in my childhood home that my parents built in 1977 and we moved up from western Sydney. We had so much freedom. One of these families that I grew up with was Grant denyer who lived 3 doors up from my home. Grant is the same age as one of my sisters.
Sadly, Nancy has recently died, never learning what ultimately happened to her children but Jim Beaumont is still alive and living in the Adelaide area. I once read that Jim had considered accompanying his children to the beach that day. Since it was a national holiday, he didn't have to go to work. But he decided to go to the office because he had to finish some paperwork. So Jim has had to live with the additional pain of knowing that if he had gone with the children to the beach, none of this would have ever happened. He has had to live with the pain of making the wrong decision ever since.
It has been reported that had been watched - they were there the day before with Jim. My feelings are they would have been taken another day if that day JIm had also been there. The predator was waiting for them to be alone.
Unfortunately, the evidence is there that the children were being groomed. Apparently Jane had a boyfriend at the beach and sadly I believe he would have got his opportunity another time.
@@bieni78 I am not aware of any such evidence but are you suggesting that Jane was planning to meet this boy at the beach that day? However, your theory that they were being groomed is plausible because this must have been someone the kids knew since they seemed to feel safe in his presence.
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 if you Google, especially I think its on Wikipedia, Aara had told her Mother that Jane had a boyfriend down at the beach. In todays knowledge of how an abductor was able to have disarmed 3 children in a busy area, they must have known him. The children were used to travelling to the beach alone and i assume the abductor had been meeting them previously on several occasions.
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 and I don't believe it was a "boy". She may have had a crush on this older man. Not unusual in pre pubescent girls at all.
i think the grave was a temporary grave where the children were placed until a more permanent site was found. i think the animal remains were then placed in the grave so there would be an explanation if the 2 lads that dug the hole went to the police. whats everyone elses thoughts?
sarah w That is exactly what popped into my head..that he switched it out at some point. He wasn’t stupid. He knew he had to move them, just in case the boys came forward.
What if he buried the children in that same whole. covered it up and then buried the animals on top of the children as to distract if it was ever dug up. I mean if they found animal bones that would pretty much make them call it quits. How about going a few feet deeper than the animals?
Could just be a decoy grave to mislead , the man was no idiot... Who in their rite minds hire random strangers two dig graves for someone who they had just murdered. I suspected they would find an animal carcass.
Sounds plausable.
I dont know in what business the suspect exactly was, but being so wealthy there might have been a lot of chances to cover up the bodys...maybe he had acess to acid , buried them where the cellar of a new building was made , on another property out there in the woods, etc., etc. Those people usually have different kinds of businesses going on and half a century has passed, so it might be nearly impossible to reconstruct how exactly he did it....but yes , most likely it was a temporary solution, or even him trying to fool the police....all he had to do was to dig another hole, no one witnessed and no one would remember. And the cops finding decomposed animals remains, would make them look foolish at some point , people would loose trust in them, not being able to solve the case for so long, so what if he was falsly accused anyways ? They found no evidence at all, so maybe they kept following false tracks all the time...
He was not stupid at all, that's the most embarassing and frustrating thing with lots of criminals....You dont easily get a hold of them....even if you are dead sure, they are totally guilty....
Linda (the school girl) being raped and feeling she couldn’t tell anyone is absolutely devastating...
Some parents held people in power in very high regard, I had such parents.
I never trusted anyone with my kids when they were young and have no regrets about that either
This was not a matter of trusting people with your kids. It was daily life in the 1960s in Australia, Canada, UK, you name the place in the Western World.
Totally different time.
@@bostonblackie9503 rubbish. I was a child in the 60's and there is no way we would have been allowed to catch a bus and go to the beach at that age
@@CovidConQuitTheCensorship Maybe you weren't considered street-smart and responsible. Jane Beaumont was. Sadly, her parents were mistaken.
@@zzzbbbooo young children near water, in this case the beach, need parental supervision, the drowning risk alone is why we would never have even been at the beach without our parents, let alone travel there on our own. The family being of European descent most probably weren't as aware of that risk and misjudged how safe Australia is. That's just my opinion and my experience growing up through that time
What a darling, darling note Jane left for her parents! I listened to it three times! You just know this little girl was just a joy!
And wow was she intelligent--I can't believe how articulate she was.
Yes, but at the same time, I am horrified that parents would let their young three children alone at night and go and have fun.
@@greenpeas154 Shades of the McCanns . Poor little Madeleine
Those poor children including his own son 🙁
I am 70 years old. When I was 5 years old, and lived with my grandmother, I was always walking the streets of New York. No one ever watched me. I just had to be in for lunch and then dinner the rest of the day I would go out and play or go to Central Park or even Coney Island all by myself. I was always aware of evil people because we had some in our family. I was never afraid then. Now I am. I wonder why is that?
Very interesting ...life is so mysterious .
You know better. Kids are braver then they should be.
Because you are older and wiser now and are fully aware of the evil in this world
We became street wise early.
Those poor parents, a whole life lived with loss & grief and still no remains to bury or answers.
One can't take things for granted anymore me there are corrupt evil bad people out here, and they spoil the world and freedom for everyone else.
Honey Willow My thoughts exactly...wouldn’t be the first time that parents kill their children. I was 4 years old in 1966 and we were lucky if my parents allowed my oldest brother at 10 yrs to walk us to the park,,,different ere but the same evil existed. I was 8 years old when my own family was struck by tragedy when my 16 years old sister disappeared after going to a birthday party after school...we had no massive search and back then you had to wait 72 hrs before police would get involved.,,,needless to say her body was found 6 weeks later wrapped in a moving blanket in a creek. My mother “checked out” was never to be the same again. This happened in 1972 in West Chester PA.
+Honey Willow I don't for one moment think the parents were involved. Funny how we all see differently . It was stated that back in that time in that area it was common to allow children to go to the beach alone- even the policemen said it was unheard of to have a case of a child abduction or murder. I was also born in the 60's and my freedom to roam unchecked was only stopped when the Moors murders became headline news when I was about 5. You can't judge the parents looking back from what we see on a regular basis now- child abuse, sexual abuse, abduction and murder seem to happen almost daily these days. If it was the parents I am sure the police would have deduced that.
A 7 year old is a CUSTODIAN of a 5 & 4 yr old!!? Something wrong with this picture. I mean...The BEACH!? I don't think the parents took them,but they were definitely neglectful
Star Anna they were 9,7 and 4 to be accurate but I agree very young. Different world back then- I was going to the dentist on my own at 9 as both my parents worked full time .
This case draws me back time and again , it's so heart wrenching to imagine the parents and family living what amounts to my entire life long with the agony of no answers . I was born in 1967 when these children were already gone 18 months .
The heaviness of heart that we outsiders feel can be nothing in comparison to the grief and frustration the children's loved ones have endured for 52yrs. I pray that they will one day at least receive some answers .
What a sick man Harry Phipps was , I believe he sounds like the perfect candidate to take a family's 3 children in order to save his own reputation.
Did the catch hom back then?
I remember my mother letting me walk six blocks and a blvd when I was in kindergarten! Five years old and I walked to and from my elementary school in Long Beach, California! This was 1965 and I guess she thought I would be safe doing this at the time. I could never have done this with my children by the 80's!!!
Lol I did the same thing in Long Beach but in 1975, Market Street to Catholic school
I don't understand how woman stay with a man that is sexually abusing their kids? this is jus horrible,i can't imagine the pain and emptiness of the mother that never knew where her babies went.smh...I jus can't imagine...poor babies💛
Enablers
It tugs at my heartstrings. I have 4 grown children and 3 small grandchildren. I would cease to exist if anything happened to any of them. The ages of those children was so innocent, so fragile, so innocent and sweet. It breaks my heart. I am over protective with my children & grandchildren and don't care how many times or how much they chastise me. This planet is lurking with evil. The innocent is always at risk.
I have known people who permitted their children to be raped.
In one case it was a grandmother whose boyfriend was raping girls aged 3 and 5. The grandmother took his side and fought trying to get the kids back after they were taken away.
Another case was a mother whose son was raping her daughters. Not only did the mother side with the son, she was able to convince CPS to let him stay in the home with her and the sisters and he remained markedly her favorite. I think she saw the world hating him and tried to make up for that. But it was at the expense of neglecting and endangering her girls.
Because these women are in a mindset of it's better to be with a man, any man, even if he is a monster, than it is to be alone. the thought of being alone make many many people do things others wouldn't. we don't know what she went through either. I am willing to bet she had to have been abused by this guy as well, it goes with the territory. it is really sad, and fucked up, but it is more truth than fiction. after seeing some of the things I have seen in the world, it's better those kids were killed than to be kept under lock and key, tortured for years like some of these wackos do. I guess we can at least be thankful that there are people still trying to find out what happened and where they have been put all of these years.
@@gregorykrajeski6255 It's sick. I didn't tell my mom until after we were grown about the physical & sexual abuse my brother did to me. I guess I always knew she'd never believe it. She denied it until the day she died. Her precious, crack-head, thief, jail-bird son could do no wrong. It about killed me.
I believe this man watched these kids for a while before he approached the kids....he been watching them ....since the kids always went to the beach ..
Usually the style of a predator. They observe their pray.
I believe that water is wet.
@@sumbigdumkunt🙄🙄🙄
I remember in the 70's we went to the neighborhood pool every day of the summer without parent supervision. The pool was fenced in and there were lifeguards. I was about 8 my youngest sister would have to have been 7 and older sister 10 or 11. We also went with older cousins every day. My youngest sister and I almost drowned and we woke up with with a classmate's sister carrying us out of the pool. We never told our mother cause we knew she would not let us go back.
I would never give my kids the freedom we had in those days. Times definitely have changed.
It blows my mind that they thought it more likely the children were hiding for DAYS than that they were kidnapped
People were so trusting back in those days, they couldn't imagine that anyone could harm their children
@Martin G We all had arguments with parents back in the day I was born in the 60's and I remember arguing with my Gran (who raised me) as a kid and running away from home,,,,,,I went around the block - it wasn't a big block and I didn't go any further because I wasn't allowed to cross the road alone.
hippiehoni kidnapping of children wasn’t within the reality of the time, certainly not 3 children (the Lindbergh baby was famously kidnapped but that was for money and daddy was famous). You know your small reality and stretch of time, as you and I also cannot quite imagine the Great Depression. But just because you don’t understand the time doesn’t mean they were stupid as you hint at - it was a different reality.
Exactly, i dont care if it was 1878, hiding, dad was saying on tv how responsible jane was, so why would she hide them? Something is not quite right with this whole thing....
What pain and agony that mother and father have faced. So deeply heart breaking..justice for these little angels.
I pray they find closure and peace after all this.
Agony you say for the parents ? ! The mother should of been charged with GROSS NEGLIGENCE . Who in their right mind would put their 3 BABIES on public transportation and to go swimming , with NO supervision ? The mother had just stayed at home .
Evil and bad has ALWAYS been around MADD Max . Oh , your name fits you too - MADD and CRAZY are the same . Let your MADD heart break for that Mother .
mary isabell You are a HORSES ASS! The times were very different in the ‘60’s and WONDERFUL! Sorry YOUR PARENTS STUNTED AND WARPED YOU! I wish NOTHING good for you to speak this way
of this agonized woman you POS!
Somebody must know something unless the person who did it has passed on and taken the secret with him to his grave may they rip
@@maryisabell8760 More importantly Mary, the protection and abetting of all these paedos from the governernment is a disgrace. The mother may have made a carefree decision but she doesnt deserve this punishment.
Omg, poor Hayden. Why didn't his damn mother protect him?!? She had to have known! What a sick situation. So sad
And NO Mention of his Brother....where's he In this Story?
Took Over his Dad's Car part Factory, perhaps? ?
That is exactly what I was thinking! Then for her to obviously still be protecting the animal by saying that she bought the purse that the man saw in the basement! What if Hayden did it? No doubt the Father was molesting him which twisted Hayden himself.
@@mlkellum I had a thought it might have been Hayden, too. He would be much more likely to be "the boyfriend" as he was 15 when it happened.
@mikellum that woman was the stepmother.
As soon as I hear a suspect is connected to politicians and powerful people, the chances of guilt go up for me. We all know what those types like to do in their spare time.
What do they like to do then I don't understand?
@@rahulbhatia7798 The majority of these people are corrupt, putrid, and evil human being's who are very much involved in taking children for not only there own dirty perversions but for child trafficking as well. It went on back then just like it does today.
@@rahulbhatia7798Pedophilia
and who in their right mind would dig a hole that wide and that deep to bury a cow? this is all a cover up by influential people
@Cynthia Baker what a cow was doing on the beach???
I was on holidays in a small town, Melrose, north of Adelaide when this story broke. We had never heard of such a thing. I rode my bike 5 miles into Adelaide from Hectorville every time my parents turned their backs. I had mates who rode with me all over our suburbs stealing fruit and vegetables and nuts from market gardens trying very hard to not leave a foot print.
We were in scouts, actually cubs at this time. We were in the church, Sunday school, and tennis club plus lessons on certain days of the week. We climbed waterfalls at Morialta and searched old aborigine caves. We collected beer bottles to raise money for our scout group. A local public park had olive trees in it and at certain times of the year we would collect the olives and sell the at the Italian's olive oil pressing place for 10 shillinsgs a sugar bag.
Never once do I remember an unsafe incident.
Fast forward one generation and my wife and I can't let our children out of our sight.
My parents trusted me, the oldest to mind my brothers to go to the Norwood public pool.
The trust we had in those days of our fellow man has evaporated into the ether.
My grand children don't believe most of my adventure stories.
Sad.
Naw I still think it’s astonishing that such little kids would go to the beach alone. It’s the beach for gods sake, drowning, sunburn etc. everyone says how it was what we all did back in the 60’s but I was born in the 60’s and there’s no way my mum would have let me take my little brother of 4 on the bus to the friggin public beach to swim alone. Sorry, it may have been an innocent time but that was still a risky move, it just was.
I certainly agree with you...my mother never let us go anywhere n especially to the beach without her .
We weren’t allowed to go to the beach Back in the 1960’s, but we were outside alone every day. At 6 I took public buss to scout meetings in the dark in the evening and it’s still like that here. My kids were outside alone from when they were old enough and they ran around and visited each other or played in the forest or cycled around. The only thing they’re not allowed to do it play near water without grownups. They can be gone for hours at a time. We’re blessed to live in a part of the world that is safe for kids.
Jennifer Morris Yea, you don't leave children alone. Even in frigging colonial times. People have always been evil.
I totally agree with you. Imagine giving a 9 year old responsibility for a 4 year old in the ocean
When you think about it, what really is the difference between then and now, if anything people are more aware now, plus the Wanda Beach murders had just happened interstate, the 2 young girls raped and murdered on the beach, so people were made aware then, people have no problem reporting anything strange now, truth be know its prob safer now than it was back then, people are more in tune with safety, and that poor girl that got raped couldnt even tell her father, and That Harry, father of the year.....!!!how many fathers were like that back then???? And getting away with it. I have a problem with the whole story to be honest, 3 kids, no adults, swimming alone, 40 plus degree heat, not sure i have the facts correct, but, they were due back at noon, mum waited til dad got hm and then at 6pm they go to the police, 6hrs missing, 40 plus heat, a 4 year old boy, no drink or snacks except lunch 6 hours earlier, im 61yrs old and even now something is wrong with this story, like everyone says, how did they just VANISH? With NO trace, sorry but why did noone remember where they went after they got the pie, and how come the girl remembers serving jane, how many kids would she have served that day, can she remember all of them, it was proven that the postman had cofussed the time and date, and the old people, were quite elderly and how did they know the man with the children was acting odd, and noone else come forward to say anything about that,
did they even get to the beach????....just a theory...
As of February, 2018, Jim, 92, and Nancy, 90, divorced, still enduring the torture.....
RIP Jane, Arnna & Grant
Mrs Beaumont passed away last month, 16th September aged 92. She died still not knowing what happened to her 3 children :(
A Satan always change his appearance...always remember a respectful person a wealthy person is not always as it's appear...looks can be decieving ...
AMEN!!!!! 😖
Bertudes Melanie Obviously!!!
ANYONE CAN HIDE ANYTHING FROM MAN BUT, "GOD KNOWS ALL" AND "WHOEVER" TOOK THESE CHILDREN WILL ONE DAY STAND BEFORE GOD.
A J The only real one, The God of Abraham and Jacob. You’ll find out when you take your last breath.
@@baldwin1e You live in a phantasy world!
Happy Sailor-Do we know that for sure?
Good old god. He's never around when he's needed to protect the little kids.
@@60-second-HACKS maybe actually read the Bible instead of spouting your ignorance and understand why God doesn't interfere in worldly matters.
You speak much about something you know little about
‘ No fear of being adducted, it didn’t happen’ said the man. Total nonsense! It’s happened since the beginning of time. Growing up in the 1950s our Mum warned us about accepting sweets from and/or getting into cars with strangers. This is nothing new.
Thank you for this! I've been waiting for it FOREVER because I missed it when it was aired the other night.
60's. A time when you came home when the street lights came on. No fear.
EVIL and BAD has always been around . U think a parent should put her BABIES on public transportation , to go swimming unsupervised !? U think that - your a KOOK too .
I was a young child in the 60's. I was painfully aware that the world was not a safe place.😢
I was around on a bike playing in adelaide as a kid up until early 90s. Still dont lock the car and house up now
sylvia koziarski for whites lol
@@maryisabell8760 My mother would never let me use public transport, even as an adult, or go to the swimming pool or sports at school (for 'religious reasons'). In fact, I was a victim of child abuse (beatings) and incest: she was afraid that if she let me out of her sight, unsupervised, I would spill the beans. So she made sure I went to a religious school where the nuns beat the kids and most people tried to convince me to become a nun...
I grew up in 60s and we had freedom that nobody today could possibly understand- out all day with no adult supervision- so long as we were home in time for evening meal no one worried - wonderful way to grow up - don't envy today's children in the slightest - they are prisoners in comparison to how I grew up
I really hope they solve this case, too many years have gone with no answers
I had migrated to Adelaide only four months earlier from London at the age of thirteen and this shocked the hell out of me. At my age I could get around London without fear so, to see the news of the missing Beaumont children in beautiful Adelaide, just frightened me to my very core.
I'm seventy now, it still makes me cry. I can't get over how three children can vanish. I couldn't understand it then and still can't. Then seven years later the two girls disappeared from Adelaide oval. What happened to them?
I had hoped they had found them,it’s a shame they are still missing ,it’s very hard for the family..I was born in 55 I had a brilliant childhood,I was able to do pretty much anything when I was with friends ,we would go on adventures for what felt like miles..we made castles and camps we fought battles and dragons..we had real childhoods..no pcs ,no phones..we could in those days..this world has changed ,not a nice place to live in now..it’s too violent ,even the streets aren’t safe..and in those days if you were in before the light came on you were fine ..if not you were grounded..life was good then,not because I was young but because people talked and listened without phones 😀
that evil satan escaped justice by dying but rest assured he's burning in eternal hell. Rest in peace little angles in heaven.
There is no heaven. They're dead. Gone. Forever. Ger a grip.
True Blackheathenly, if there was a heaven and a god, this terrible crime wouldn't have happened in the first place!!!
+Blackheathenly Well, you finally nailed it. Can't believe mankind has spent eons waiting for your revelations.
MasterCedar I'm by far not a saint,but, I'd rather stand with the few by God than with godless masses. Thank you for your warning but im ok. Hope you're ok as well.
Oh shut up with your ridiculous free will Dee J. LOL...
That wasn't written into the Bible until a long time after it was allegedly written, in fact there is no original Bible, so the whole thing is made up nonsense to keep sheep like you inline!!!
Just a thought, I agree that the timing of Phips having a hole dug and all the other links seem to just scream that he was hiding something. What I would like to know is if anybody who worked at Castalloy remembers that hole being dug and possibly reopened at a later date. After all he may have been a monster in human skin, but nobody ever said he was stupid and he had years, decades even to remove the evidence. I wonder if any one has ever checked to see if he rented a backhoe or even had one on site.
This guy is guilty as he'll shave his not alive
This breaks my heart for the parents. So sad that children cannot be children safely
One thing that hurts my heart about the responsibility Jane had is the beautiful note she left for her parents. Not so much the content but the inference that the parents had gone out at night leaving Jane in charge. 9 years old, left to have the care of your siblings AT NIGHT!, for several hours. And it doesn’t sound like a one off occasion.
Yes it was a different time, but no 9 year old should have to do this. And it’s mind boggling that she was given responsibility for a four year old at the beach.
Far too much responsibility for a 9 year old. Far too much. And we can all see the result.
I definitely agree that it seems strange and wrong to do this, viewed through the eyes of today. But it’s worth remembering that while 9 was still young back then, a child of that age would have been significantly more mature than a 9 year old today, especially an older girl who was used to taking charge of her younger siblings. 9 year olds then would also be more streetwise, and in addition, they had more brothers and sisters than most children today, and knew how to look after children of all ages, including very young ones. It was very normal then - and still is in many communities today - for the older ones to be left to supervise. Jane was experienced in this, and often played the role of mother with the little ones, which is why presumably the parents felt they could do what they did that day. Unfortunately this tragedy revealed that the world back then wasn’t as safe as people wanted to believe at the time.
I had a lot of responsibility when I was 8. I was well on My way to being able to keep a clean and neat home at that age. My younger sibling was only 2.5 years younger, but I was made responsible for Him for much of Our adolescents. I was able to care for Myself and My Brother at that time. HOWEVER, I was deathly afraid of Adults at that point in My life. I wouldn't go into a store by myself.. not even to get the change. I didn't trust Adults at all.
All of this is just one big cover up some one knows where those children are and they aren't talking
The 2 girls were old enough to run loose alone, but not old enough to have the responsibility of a small 4 yo at the OCEAN? NO WAY.
It makes ur soul shake, this has me like wtf, my teen will say mom I'm fine, phss, I remind her it's other people I don't trust, always keep a close eye,
teenagers are like this though
we don't see the real dangers. I walked up to the shop at 10pm last night. We seem to have no real sense, or common sense for that matter.
Chelysia Kramarenko that is ok How ever wen a parent asks bout every detail ,mind it is not to be in your business because your life is your life all in all a mother and a father really do give a s*** and I know that when my daughter is not telling me what she's doing I fear and I always tell her please be safe and no matter what happens that gives her a spook I tell her to call me because I will do whatever it takes that my friend says I love you always I am the parent that will fight till the end
I grew up amidst abuse and moved out on my own at 13 to take care of myself. I encountered more abuse when on my own and I attracted predatory people to me like a magnet, all the way through my mid 20s. I think predators can tell when you are vulnerable or lack support, as is so common among teens today. We all need to be good people and protect all children, not only our own, as best as we are able to. Be conscience of the world we live in and watch over young people if you see something that feels instinctually off. We cant always help but many young people have no one watching out for them at all and the victimization of children and teens has only become more prolific in modern times.
@Eva - First, am sorry that you've had to deal with things no young person should be submitted / exposed to at such a young age. Second, am encouraged by your post - one that appears to present that you've survived and are perhaps doing better (?). Third, your thoughts re the community responsibility in being aware of predators amidst our young people, is spot on. Victimization has always been part of the dark side of human nature, but the flip side in helping when we see a need or vulnerability has also been part of our social DNA. We, individually, have a responsibility in protecting our youth regardless of from whom they hail.
Lisa German yes.
they need to pull harry fips house apart in one of the docos they said they found a childs purse in the base ment . the purse is the clue not what is but where it was found. a killer is not going to dispose of bodys out in the open .he is going to do it where no one can see him . the base ment may not of been finished 53 years ago .i am the same age as the oldest. its just my theorie.
I agree, why wasn't the Police informed about the Purse?
Yeah that purse should have been taken for dna testing.
@@marionbyrne329 I haven't gotten to that part yet, so i don't know when the purse was found. If it was back after they went missing they didn't have the DNA testing they have now. But if it was in more recent years they need to DNA test it if they still have it.
@@marionbyrne329 there was no such thing as DNA testing then.
He owns the factory....just saying. Probably acid the children. But back in the day domistic violence cases were not spoken about. Yes the basement cold very well be a clue. Certainly cement shoes in the oacen another
This ‘come home before the street lights on’ is becoming such a tired and fantastical trope in Australia
I was concerned about the letter that Jane wrote to her parents 2 days before the disappearance. It sounded as if they'd gone away and left the children alone for the night. "I hope you had a very nice time, wherever you went" she says. Sounds as if the kids were left alone more than once. Jane was "the custodian of the younger children" as her friend says in the interview. The poor kids were sitting ducks for a pedophile looking for an easy target.
The letter was horrific to hear read out.
I agree, i thought the same,i have a problem with the whole story, things dont gel, did they even get to the beach, just a thought....
I hear it all the time how safe it was in the day, but not really. Many children went missing back then too, and women were murdered as well. Maybe it wasn't as many crimes, but they happened. Three young children taking a bus to the beach is way too much responsibility given to a nine year old.
Sadly youngsters get separated from parents like Jamie Bulger and others without parents supervision and that is when opportunist predators strike. Lesson for today is never let young children out of your sight for a second.
Poor innocent souls.
Horrible for the parents, not knowing would have to be hell
24 years ago in Adelaide I was a young teen and almost got abducted by two middle aged Caucasian men on a long jetty/boardwalk in broad daylight. They started running toward me and instinctively I knew they did not have good intentions. They were running and staring straight at me. I immediately ran the opposite way back down the boardwalk to some fishermen who thankfully were there. The men then stopped and watched me for a while then left. I only walked back when fishermen I stood near were leaving too. I will never forget what these 2 men looked like.. and I feel they were responsible for other missing cases. The darling Beaumont children were not the first children to be taken and will not be the last. If they were alive today they will be the biggest advocates that whilst we have evil predators on earth, we must guard our children with our lives, teach them to be safe. And also be vigilant if you see a child who is distressed. My mother always drummed into me this and I think this is why I’m alive today..
All these people speak after he is dead ! All weird!
most people are cowards, then and now
Why they didn't care about those kids he was with at the moment knowing he is dangerous, calling the police is most of time useless, no matter
Investigators screwed up everything, they showed like they were investigating, if they had to do dig up the whole park especially where concrete,
Margaret deVries cowards should have come forward when it happened-
Margaret deVries He must have been terrifying to most people, not only his son. Some people just ooze evil out of every pore
They say, "it didn't happen then." Well, obviously, it did.
What didn't happen then is the news of things like this didn't spread as far. As a result if there was one abduction in a community in 20 years, people didn't change. Only when communication became more common and people began to realize this happens a lot, did they take notice and start to take steps to prevent such things.
But I don't think it happens more now. I think we're just more aware of it because our communication is wider and stories spread quicker. f there's been any increase, it's only in proportion to our population.
My main point is that, at that time, people were still living sort of isolated from the world at large. I am about the same age as Jane would have been. I lived in a small community and we lived the same way. But I remember that we only heard any news programs about once a day and usually only about the big cities. Local news was only found in a weekly newspaper or by word-of-mouth. So, if something happened, it was a rarity. It could happen two towns over, but you wouldn't hear about it.
I think it happens more now and we are more aware of it. Pedophiles now create rings that exchange thousands of images of children and normalize their perversion in each others eyes.
Those beautiful children are with our Heavenly Father. Jesus has his arms around them forever. Safe warm and never to be harmed again. That man that did the terrible horrible thing was I am sure severely judged by his maker. Let all of us good people keep an eye out for each other’s children and speak up when we see odd behavior. RIP Beaumont babies. ❤️💜❤️💜❤️💜❤️💜❤️
It's unimaginable now that 3 children under 9 were put on a bus without an adult and expected to return home safe to travel 2 km. It was a different time. Not only did the parents loose their children but had to live the rest of their lives blaming themselves for their demise.
I was born in 1952. We lived in Sydney, NSW. Children had the freedom to roam all day, but always to be home by dark. Our parents had no idea what mischief we got up to. My sister and I took a ride to the pool on a very hot day. I was about ten and she was nine. The couple seemed elderly so we thought we’d be safe. We even took lollies from them. We’d broken two rules. They let us out at the pool. We thanked them and vowed never to tell our parents. We knew it was wrong, but we still did it. Children in those days were taught to be polite, and as this couple seemed friendly we took the risk. No one knew where we were. It was one of my best life lessons, which I still can visualise sixty years later. I used it as a learning lesson in my years as a primary school teacher.
I can relate to the parents. I’m an American living in Japan and the Japanese let their kids as young as 4 venture out alone. Even primary school students walk to school without adults and I hardly ever lock my doors. Eventually I let my 5 yr old son out in the neighborhood. It’s perfectly safe especially compared to America.
What a tragedy cant imagine lising all my kids in one afternoon. My eldest is only 7 but very mothering and takes care of her siblings just as Jane did.
You would have to put me out of my misery if my child/children vanished. Id be done for. Those poor people
I'd look forever but if they were found murdered I'd live in the name of revenge. Either way I think both our responses are extreme.
I remember in another docu ; her siblings would tease and say "Jane has got a boyfriend". and that she very shy.
So why is it so hard that elite, celebritys, and Presidents would NEVER do this‼️ They ARE MONSTERS😡 DONT BE SCILENT😪
So Harry paid two boys well to dig a hole so....he could burry his cow or horse?
Waste area or not - why are there cow or horse bones in a hole in the middle of a residential area.
I agree something is not right. I think they need to literally dig deeper perhaps the animal was placed above the bones to throw off anyone investigating.
It was probably done to throw the police off and confuse them.
@@maxalberts85 All those I know who have large animals to bury will have an excavator dig a hole on the property as close to the dead animal as possible to make burial easier. But then, rich people can do "anything" and think they can get away with it. That is, until Jesus judge their evil deeds.
It was like that here in San Diego where I grew up. Nobody bothered you. The neighborhood kids would go everywhere for hours. In the summer with no shoes.
Oh wow! You just caused a memory to surface!! When I was about 9 or 10 we were playing in a stream and I lost my shoes! They must have floated away while we were building a dam. Had to walk home barefoot, which was fine. But I cried all the way and even hid in a hedge near my house because I knew I was going to seriously cop it for losing them. (And I did get a battering for it) Crikey, haven't thought about that in 45 years!!
You are a idiot - I will call you as I see you . EVIL and BAD has always been around since the beginning of ADAM and EVE .
If nothing ever happened to you or your neighborhood kids - it’s because miraculously you were NOT at the WRONG PLACE at the WRONG time !!
U cant do that no more walk around no shoes fucking dirty needles ffs shows the direction this world is going .. sad sad sad
@@madoldbatwoman I
I grew up in sd also, south bay and east county, born 75, and I was gone all day starting from about 4
I think it's mind-boggling how composed the parents are even though they were so distraught. I really wish they could have had answers as to what became of their children before they both passed away.
It appears, from Jane's letter, that she had more responsibility for her siblings heaped upon her shoulders, by the parents, than she should have had at the tender age of nine years old.
I agree with that too! She was so wonderful they way she cared for everyone in the family, it seems.
It is good to have responsibility but this was a little much at 9. It broke my heart when she said about the nappy on her brother and borrowed the radio. She was just a baby herself.
It's a very very sad story all round.
it turns out that the letter was a scam no of it was true
In 1910s, a nine-years old was old enough to have a job or an apprentice.
We got teen at the age of 16 fighting in World War 2
And that is something you would recommend? When a small child is minding another, often everything is okay until an emergency happens. A fire starts, a child is pulled out to sea, someone tries to kidnap one of the babies. What on earth is a nine year old to do then?
I am 39 and I know things were very different back then as I was allowed freedom to roam the neighborhood with my friends pretty freely. I grew up in Arizona and we had a pool so I was in the pool A LOT. We lived there until I was 10. There was no way my parents would have let me or my brother near the water without supervision or take a bus ANYWHERE alone. I’m not judging, this is awful what happened but it was preventable. No matter what the era it was in. There have been murders and paedophiles, and accidental drownings for centuries. Obviously, if you don’t let your 3 children go to the beach alone, nothing like this would happen. I’m just not willing to take that chance with my own son. Better safe than sorry. And I can only imagine how horribly sorry this poor woman was. 😢
We were exactly the same, in the seventies and the eighties!! We went EVERYWHERE and did EVERYTHING and no one ever worried that something could happen…………. Even though obviously it could have/ but, it was a time of carefree and happy childhood days. Would give anything to go back to those wonderful ; responsibility free days.
I find it odd that people say "it was a different time," just because we survived. The fact that I didn't die in a car accident, even tho I had no car seat as a baby, doesn't negate the fact that car seats save children's lives. I just happened to be lucky enough to have not been involved in any car accidents with my parents...that's why I survived. Just because kids hung out alone and didn't die, doesn't change the fact that some children DO, and DID die because their parents weren't there. Statistics actually say that children are safer NOW than ever before. But that doesn't lull me into a false sense of security, and let my kids go out and play at the beach without me...because...hey *I SURVIVED*...so let's throw caution to the wind and hope mine are just as lucky. I grew up in a town of maybe 500 people when I was around the ages of 7-10, and then we went back every summer after that. Yeah, it was safer because you literally ended up knowing everyone. I now live in a city with millions of people. I'm not letting my kids do the same stuff I did. It's not even comparable. Kids get nabbed riding around their own block. And the parents will forever say, "If I had only gone with them..."
‘All these things, they’ve never happened before! Never in history, and never to kids!’
canadian residential schools: *exist in recent history (1996) to be exact*