The South Australian Police Search for the Beaumont Children

Parallels were drawn with the unsolved murders of 15-year-olds Mary and Schmidt and Christine Shara, at Sydney's Wanda Beach. The Beaumont cases shared noticeable similarities as both involved children going missing from a crowded beach during the January school holidays. By day five in the ongoing search for the Beaumont children, South Australian police had received over 1,000 phone calls in relation to the identity of their prime suspect. Police turned their attention to known sex offenders around the holdfast Bay Area. Most known sexual predators who lived locally were able to provide solid alibis for the day they vanished. Detective Sergeant Alex Palmer urged the Glennell residents to check their properties for