{"id":4227,"date":"2018-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/uncategorised\/beaumont-children-breakthrough-have-police-found-gravesite\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T02:07:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T02:07:17","slug":"beaumont-children-breakthrough-have-police-found-gravesite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/news\/beaumont-children-breakthrough-have-police-found-gravesite\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaumont children breakthrough: Have police found the gravesite 52 years later?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 52 years since Jane, nine, Arnna, seven, and Grant, four, were last seen at Adelaide&#8217;s Glenelg Beach. It&#8217;s been assumed since then that the children were abducted and murdered, with a man seen playing with them the main suspect.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/a\/38682927\/possible-new-lead-in-staggering-mystery-of-the-beaumont-children\/\"><em>Seven News<\/em><\/a> has been investigating a potential burial site at a former factory in Plympton, near Glenelg. It had previously been investigated, but authorities said it was the wrong spot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, another site was checked using new technology and a large area of disturbed area was found. Measuring one metre wide, two metres long and two metres deep, it&#8217;s potentially the size of a grave and has become a crime scene.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An area of disturbed earth measuring two metres long and two metres deep on a factory site in Adelaide could be a possible grave site used to bury the bodies of the three Beaumont children, who disappeared more than five decades ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cfWIgh3L5S\">https:\/\/t.co\/cfWIgh3L5S<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/7News?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#7News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qTGT6GuNc3\">pic.twitter.com\/qTGT6GuNc3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 7 News Sydney (@7NewsSydney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/7NewsSydney\/status\/955516032369569792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;\n\n<p>Former South Australian Police Detective Bill Hayes said the area could be the key to the mystery. Speaking with&nbsp;<em>7 News,&nbsp;<\/em>he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;With the&nbsp;<\/em><em>information<\/em><em>&nbsp;we&#8217;ve had, one would be led to the opinion that this could be the place.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Burial ground beaumont children\" title=\"NEWS\" height=\"352\" width=\"638\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/burial_ground_beaumont_children.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The gravesite was reportedly first raised by a group of men who recognised a man from news reports who had asked them to dig a trench. The man was Harry Phipps, a businessman who died 14 years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;He was a paedophile. He was a predatory paedophile and he was a dangerous man, we know that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Phipps owned the Plympton factory where the potential burial site is. The businessman&#8217;s estranged son Haydn claims he saw the children in the backyard of their house the day they vanished.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a recording Haydn is heard saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Yeah, I&nbsp;<\/em><em>seen<\/em><em>&nbsp;them come in\u2026 They were lost and on their own and the description matched them identically.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The home was just 250 metres from the beach they were last seen at.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>South Australian Police and the Major Crimes Squad will do a dig of the area and potentially solve one of Australia&#8217;s biggest criminal mysteries.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mystery remains unsolved 52 years after their disappearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Beaumont children breakthrough: Have police found the gravesite 52 years later? 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