On Jan. 26, 1966, all three Beaumont siblings went to the beach near their Adelaide home, had lunch and disappeared without a trace
Eventually it was determined that the three kids had gone to Wenzel's Bakery near the beach at around noon, and Jane bought pasties and a meat pie for their lunch. She paid with a 1 note that her mother knew she did not give her.
The Beaumont mystery would collide with another, however, on Aug. 25, 1973, when Joanne Ratcliffe, 11, and Kirste Gordon, 4, disappeared from a soccer match at the Adelaide Oval. "The child was crying," Sue Laurie, who was 14 and had mistaken what she witnessed for a fraught parent-child moment, remembered to Adelaide radio station 5AA in 1998,"and a second girl who looked a few years younger than me was running after the man, thumping him and punching into him and shouting, 'We want to go back.
"People would come up to her on the street and openly abuse her," Madigan said,"believing Nancy had something to do with it. It would have been all so traumatic for them." Only a day later, however, people who identified themselves as relatives of the elderly owner of those suitcases told police that she had simply become obsessed with the case, and after she died they threw the bags out.
that indicated a hole may have once been dug at the site. Authorities started digging again on Feb. 1, 2018, but found nothing but animal bones and unremarkable rubbish.