#but their parents gave them coins for bus fare and lunch

[chikinan]

i feel like there was a normal version of my life where i got into technical school for animation after highschool and slowly worked up into scolarships and moving out and working on the industry because I have the skills and the capacity and the charisma to do so, but I had no one backing me up and no chance for it so my 20's where spent in a bizarre fight for survival instead and I'm struggling just so much to start it out now

#im just so tired man #mati barks #i hate having this conversation w ppl because they all make it sounnd like im exaggerating #im not. i have no one. no ''i dont like my parents very much'' i do mean #no one #even the ones i consider my closest have denied me a roof on the basis of me not being their actual child #its like when i was a child and other kids would tell me they also had no money #but their parents gave them coins for bus fare and lunch #i did not even have that. and they said we were on equal terms #negative

[ohhowpeculiar]

What happened to the Beaumont children?

In 1966, three siblings - Jane (9), Arnna (7), and Grant (4) - took a 5 minute bus trip from their home in Somerton Park to the beach of Glenelg. Having made the trip many times before and with the eldest, Jane, considered responsible enough to look after the younger kids, their parents didn’t worry until they failed to return home that evening.

The children were reportedly in the company of a tall, blonde man while playing on the beach that day. He has never been identified, and the Beaumont children haven’t been seen since January 26th, 1966.

The disappearance of the Beaumont children led to parents becoming much more protective of their children, and unwilling to allow their kids the freedoms of previous generations. 

About the unidentified man and his apparent relationship with the children:

He was described as being lean or athletic, tall, and blonde. He was tan and looked to be in his mid-30′s.

On the day of the disappearance, Jane bought some food from a local vendor with a £1 note. It is suspected that someone else gave Jane that money, as her mother had only given the children coins for their bus fare and lunch.

Arnna had previously remarked to her mother that Jane had “got a boyfriend down the beach.” Believing she meant that Jane had a playmate her own age, Mrs. Beaumont didn’t think anything of it.

Several months after the disappearance, a woman reported seeing three children - two girls and a boy - in the company of a man entering a house she had believed to be deserted. One day later, the house was again empty and she never saw the children or the man again.

Two years after the disappearance, letters claiming to be from Jane arrived at the Beaumont residence. While initially treated as plausible, the letters were later proven to have been a hoax perpetrated by a teenager at the time.

Several men have been suspected of kidnapping and murdering the Beaumont children, but the strongest suspect in the case is Bevan Spencer von Einem. Currently serving a life sentence for an unrelated murder, Einem reportedly told a police source that he had kidnapped three children from a beach and performed experiments on them. After trying to surgically connect the three children together, one died and Einem killed the other two before disposing of their bodies in the bushland south of Adelaide.

Einem was not previously considered a suspect in the Beaumont case, but he would have resembled the unidentified man seen in the company of the children on the day of their disappearance. The reported experiments are also consistent with other murder cases in the area, and Einem is now suspected of being a serial killer involved in several cases of missing children. He was also known to spend time on Glenelg Beach and “perv” on the changing rooms.

One thing that doesn’t fit is age - the blonde man was thought to be in his mid-30s, but Einem was 21 in 1966. Einem also seems to have targeted teenagers in his crimes, not younger children. But he’s still the most plausible suspect named by the police at this point.

Unless more physical evidence is uncovered or a confession is made, the chances are slim that the Beaumont children’s disappearance will ever be solved.

Adelaide was at one point the crime capital of Australia, so it looks like I’ll be writing about more unsolved cases from that area.

Stay off the beach, y’all.

Learn more:

Wikipedia - Beaumont Children Disappearance

Will $13million reward solve the murders of 18 children? Australian police launch appeal to solve string of notorious killings stretching back to 1966

Crimestoppers - Beaumont Children

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