Welcome to the UNRESOLVE podcast. I'm your host, Michael Wheelan, and this is Part 2 of the Beaumont Children's Story.

On January 26, 1966, the three Beaumont Children, 9-year-old Jane, 7-year-old Arna, and 4-year-old Grant, went missing after visiting their local beach.

They were seen by a multitude of witnesses in the presence of a strange man who was never identified.

In the years that followed, rumors nipped at the heels of the story but never led to anything productive.

It has now been over seven years, and on August 25, 1973, a similar incident begins to unfold just miles from where the Beaumont Children went missing.

On this afternoon, a Saturday, a football match is raging at the Adelaide Oval, a large stadium located 20 minutes inland in northern Adelaide.

Amidst the chaos of the match itself, and the 50,000 people sitting around them, two families are sitting next to each other.

Both families, seasoned ticket holders, have seen each other regularly for months now, if not years.

They are familiar with one another, and one could say that they've even become friends.

Among them are two young girls. Joanne Radcliffe, an 11-year-old that attended the weekend matches with her parents,

and four-year-old Kierstein Gordon, barely old enough to understand the game itself, but who went to this match with her grandmother for the first time.

While the match was in progress, Joanne announced to her parents that she needed to use the restroom.

Her parents gave her leave to visit the restroom, but Kierstein's grandmother asked if she could take the four-year-old girl along with her.

The two returned minutes later, seemingly unharmed, and all was well.

The match continued, and the roar of the thousands around the two families drowned out any concerns of strangers.

Roughly half an hour after their first bathroom visit, Kierstein told her grandmother that she needed to use the restroom again.

Joanne, being a caring young girl, offered to take Kierstein, and the pair walked off towards the direction of the bathroom at approximately 3.45pm.

The two kids were given the opportunity to be the first to leave the bathroom.

Minutes began to pass, with no sign of the girls returning to their families.

This worry eventually turned into panic, and while the match was still ongoing, Joanne's parents began to make their way to the restrooms to try and find the two girls.

Kierstein's grandmother remained at the seats, in case they returned there.

Approximately 20 minutes after the two girls departed, Joanne's mother found her way to the Secretary's office and asked if they could make an announcement over the PA system.

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