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| Beaumont children: police hoping for success at new dig | Beaumont children: police hoping for success at new dig |
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| Fresh lead puts focus on factory site in Adelaide in search for siblings missing for 52 years | Fresh lead puts focus on factory site in Adelaide in search for siblings missing for 52 years |
| Australian Associated Press | Australian Associated Press |
| Thu 1 Feb 2018 23.58 GMT | Thu 1 Feb 2018 23.58 GMT |
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| Police are “hoping for the best” from their excavation at an Adelaide factory in a new search for the three Beaumont children who have been missing since Australia Day 1966. | Police are “hoping for the best” from their excavation at an Adelaide factory in a new search for the three Beaumont children who have been missing since Australia Day 1966. |
| Police are following a fresh lead in their search for nine-year-old Jane, seven-year-old Arnna and four-year-old Grant who never returned to their Glenelg home after setting off for an afternoon at the beach. | Police are following a fresh lead in their search for nine-year-old Jane, seven-year-old Arnna and four-year-old Grant who never returned to their Glenelg home after setting off for an afternoon at the beach. |
| Attention is focused on a small section of ground at the North Plympton site where recent scientific tests revealed the possible presence of a large hole dug there around the same time the three children went missing. | Attention is focused on a small section of ground at the North Plympton site where recent scientific tests revealed the possible presence of a large hole dug there around the same time the three children went missing. |
| Detective chief inspector Greg Hutchins said there could be innocent explanations for the anomaly those tests uncovered, but it could also be a major breakthrough in Australia’s most enduring cold case. | Detective chief inspector Greg Hutchins said there could be innocent explanations for the anomaly those tests uncovered, but it could also be a major breakthrough in Australia’s most enduring cold case. |
| “We have our fingers crossed,” he said at the site on Friday. “We hope for the best but we do want to temper expectations. | “We have our fingers crossed,” he said at the site on Friday. “We hope for the best but we do want to temper expectations. |
| “Clearly we have an anomaly which we need to investigate.” | “Clearly we have an anomaly which we need to investigate.” |
| The dig is expected to take several hours. | The dig is expected to take several hours. |
| The children’s disappearance sparked a wide-scale search, but they were never found. | The children’s disappearance sparked a wide-scale search, but they were never found. |
| In 2013 new information focused the investigation on a factory west of Adelaide, after two brothers told police they had spent the 1966 Australia Day weekend digging a large hole there at the request of the owner, Harry Phipps. | In 2013 new information focused the investigation on a factory west of Adelaide, after two brothers told police they had spent the 1966 Australia Day weekend digging a large hole there at the request of the owner, Harry Phipps. |
| Phipps died in 2004, but his son, who accused his father of years of sexual abuse, believed he had a part in the crime. | Phipps died in 2004, but his son, who accused his father of years of sexual abuse, believed he had a part in the crime. |
| He also bore a resemblance to an identikit picture prepared at the time, and lived close to Glenelg beach. | He also bore a resemblance to an identikit picture prepared at the time, and lived close to Glenelg beach. |
| An excavation at the North Plympton site found nothing, but police now believe they may have been digging in the wrong spot. | An excavation at the North Plympton site found nothing, but police now believe they may have been digging in the wrong spot. |
| Hutchins said police had been regularly in touch with the children’s parents, Jim and Nancy Beaumont. | Hutchins said police had been regularly in touch with the children’s parents, Jim and Nancy Beaumont. |
| “Clearly the parents of the three Beaumont children have suffered significantly over the last 52 years,” he said. | “Clearly the parents of the three Beaumont children have suffered significantly over the last 52 years,” he said. |
| A range of experts will watch the dig, including a forensic anthropologist, a criminologist, crime scene examiners and officers from the major crime division. | A range of experts will watch the dig, including a forensic anthropologist, a criminologist, crime scene examiners and officers from the major crime division. |
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