Couldn’t find another thread to put this in.
That’s got to be really really difficult to never know what happened to them. Father is still alive.
Mother of missing Beaumont children, Nancy Beaumont, dies aged 92
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Nancy Beaumont, the mother of the Beaumont children who went missing from an Adelaide beach in the 1960s, has died aged 92.
Key points:
- Nancy Beaumont died on September 16, 2019
- She was the mother of Jane, Arnna and Grant who went missing from an Adelaide beach in 1966
- Mrs Beaumont never found out what happened to her children as the case remains unsolved
Mrs Beaumont passed away on Monday, September 16, never knowing what happened to her three children.
On Australia Day in 1966, Jane, 9, Arnna, 7, and Grant, 4, left their Somerton Park home for a day at the beach, but never came home.
It is one of Australia’s most enduring mysteries and a cold case South Australian Police have never given up on.
In early 2018, police conducted a dig at an Adelaide factory site hoping to find remains of the missing children.
The dig was prompted by two brothers who told police they had once dug a hole for the factory’s owner, Harry Phipps — a person of interest in the Beaumont case.
However the dig was called off after nothing more than animal bones were found.
At the time, police said they remained in close contact with Mr and Mrs Beaumont to offer support.
Photo: The Beaumont children photographed at the Twelve Apostles. (Supplied: SA Police)
“Sadly this means for the Beaumont family we still have no answers, we still have a lot of work to do,” Detective Chief Superintendent Des Bray said at the time.
Following Mrs Beaumont’s death, SA Police issued a statement on behalf of the family.
“Consistent with family wishes, SAPOL have no comment to make about her passing beyond expressing our sympathy and conveying on behalf of the family that they have no wish to speak to the media.”
On the 50th anniversary of the children’s disappearance, police put out a renewed call for information on the case and received hundreds of calls in the first few months.
Jim Beaumont, the children’s father, is still alive, but the couple separated years ago.
Both Mr and Mrs Beaumont have been notoriously private in recent years.
It’d be absolutely terrible. I’ve no real views on this, but hopefully she’s now in a place where she can know them again.