Beaumont site dig.

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https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/ ... 28580248b8

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https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/ ... 28580248b8

POLICE sifting through the patch of soil where it’s suspected the remains of the Beaumont children lie have come across bones – but it was quickly confirmed they were only the remains of an animal.

The three siblings went missing 52 years ago on Australia Day at Glenelg and their whereabouts has puzzled and disturbed South Australians since.

Major Crime detectives are acting on information Castalloy founder and millionaire businessman Harry Phipps, had buried Jane, Arnna and Grant Beaumont at the site after abducting and murdering them on Australia Day, 1966.


Excavators have been digging a large patch of land on the northern flank of the Castalloy factory at North Plympton since 8am this morning, monitored by archaeologists and a team of police and Major Crime detectives.

Detective Superintendent Greg Hutchins told a large media conference the land had been dug to a depth of one metre, describing the operation as a “slow, methodical search”.

“We have now hit sandy soil, which is very similar to the soil located at the previous dig,” he said.

The detectives and experts have since been bagging evidence.

It was reported they had bagged bone fragments but were quick to rule out human remains.

Forensic specialists, Major Crime detectives, academics and members of the SES are present at the dig, which follows an earlier excavation at the same property by police in 2013 in which nothing was located.


After almost five hours of excavation at the Castalloy site earth moving machinery has broken through the first metre of top soil and reached soft sandy soil beneath - In 2013 police encountered the same soil at another dig on the same site.

The excavator continues to expand the hole but progress is expected to slow over the next metre of digging as forensic experts examine the site.

Until now the site has only been mapped using god technology but police believe they are getting close to where the anomaly begins.

[Neferti]

Yes, hope they find them. The parents are in their 90s, apparently.

[Alinta]

Over the years I've read every book I can possibly find about this mystery. I too hope with all my heart that the elderly parents do not leave this world without knowing where their children are buried.

[cods]

yes yes yes they need to know.....

it would be too cruel not to shed some light at long last...

[Black Orchid]

What a shame for the parents. Another dead end.