A Brief History of the Beaumont Case

A month later, police confirmed suspicions that they had indeed been searching for the remains of the Beaumont children. Advances in fingerprint technology presented the opportunity to test the fingerprints found on the handwritten letters supposedly penned by Jane Beaumont and her captor back in 1968. Testing of the fingerprints revealed the author of the letters to be a 41 year old man from Victoria. He admitted he had originally written the letters as a teenage prank, which had quickly spiraled out of hand. In 1998, Brown was charged with the 1970 murders of sisters Judith and Susan McKay, aged five and seven in his hometown of Townsville, Queensland. Even in his older years, Brown bore haunting similarities to the