The ongoing search for the Beaumont children at a dig site in Adelaide is nearing completion, with no human remains found thus far. Initially, forensic officers were optimistic after detecting a change in the soil that they speculated could be linked to a hole two individuals had been instructed to dig by suspect Harry Phipps shortly after the children’s disappearance. However, it was soon established that the soil alteration was due to a water pipe.
Despite the lack of findings, the team at North Plympton remains determined and has decided to expand their search area. Meanwhile, attention is shifting to a potential new site hundreds of kilometres away on the Yorke Peninsula. Andrew McIntyre, a local resident whose family owns property in Stansbury, believes this site may hold vital clues, asserting that his father was involved in the children’s 1966 disappearance and suggesting they were buried in a sinkhole on the property. McIntyre expressed his conviction, stating, “It’s been a long time coming … Stansbury has always been the only option.”
While there has been some speculation regarding the Stansbury site, police have reportedly conducted thorough investigations into the theory and found insufficient evidence to justify a search there. The current excavation at North Plympton is set to continue for an additional two days as investigators seek to uncover any leads in this decades-old mystery.