Nancy Beaumont thought her three children would be home by one o'clock.

Increasingly panicked, she waited as bus after bus returned from the beach without them.

By mid-afternoon she was joined by her

husband. After frantically searching the beach and nearby streets, Jim Beaumont

went to the police. I recently discovered an Australian True Crime Book that was released in 2023.

I can't believe it passed me by at the time because the title is

unmasking the killer of the missing Beaumont children. I'll admit, I approached it with some skepticism

because we've all heard many theories over the years about the

fate of Jane, 9, Anna, 7, and Grant Beaumont, who was just four years old when they all disappeared

from South Australia's Glenelg Beach in 1966.

I quickly realized though that this book was very different.

It wasn't just presenting a theory, but startling evidence about a predator who lived very close to the last

place the children were seen. Early in the book, the authors Stuart Mullins and former South

Australian detective Bill Hayes mentioned that they'd been working with

our own Zanthi Mallet, whom they described as probably Australia's leading criminologist.

Today on Australian True Crime, the authors join

Zanthi to talk about the compelling evidence they present in their book

Unmasking the Killer of the Missing Beaumont Children. This is

Australian True Crime, produced with respect on Waragery

country of the Kulin Nation. And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions

of sexual violence.

I am Hypnot.

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