The Beaumont Children, Part I-Suspects, Confessions, and the Long Search

In Part II of The Beaumont Children series, the investigation moves beyond the beach and into the long, difficult years that followed — the suspects, the confessions, the property searches, and the slow realization that this case would never resolve cleanly.

By early 1966, South Australian police were already overwhelmed with hundreds of tips about men across Adelaide, many with no connection to Glenelg at all, as the case transformed from a missing-children investigation into a national trauma.

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This episode examines how that flood of information reshaped the case:

• Why dozens of men falsely confessed • How investigators learned to distinguish performance from memory • The psychological cost of repeated false certainty • The emergence of Harry Phipps as a long-term person of interest • His wealth, proximity, prior allegations, and the searches of his North Plympton property • Why no evidence ever reached the level required for prosecution • The late excavations, deathbed confessions, and ground searches that yielded nothing • How time erased physical evidence while multiplying theories

Using historical reporting from The Advertiser, ABC News investigations, police statements, and long-form case reconstructions, this episode explores how an investigation can become layered with names, claims, and locations — and still remain unresolved.

The Beaumont children did not become famous. They became missing.

And everything that followed was built around that absence.

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