Georgia Hardstark
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2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Feb 2025
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Mm-hmm.
And they're adamant that she wouldn't have left Kirstie behind if something bad was happening to her. You know, it's just your heart goes out. It's horrible and heartbreaking.
Yeah.
In addition, Kirstie's parents say that their little girl is exceptionally shy and would never willingly go off with some stranger. You know, so it all adds up that this is an abduction. Yeah. So there's also this story, another witness, a man named Ken Wooling, is at the stadium, is the stadium's assistant curator.
He says at the end of the third quarter at about 4 p.m., he saw two girls he believed to have been Joanne and Kirstie outside the stadium. There's this whole thing about like there were these stray kittens and some kids were trying to coax out the kittens and there's this weird guy around them. The timelines don't totally add up. We think Anthony's story is 100% true.
This one, if you piece it in time-wise, it makes sense, but only if it happened before what Anthony saw. So it's possible as well. Police put out a composite sketch of this man and, of course, asked that he come forward so he can be eliminated, but nobody does. Police put out a call for tips, and more than 400 people come forward.
And there's a lot more details in the case file episode about witnesses and possible sightings, but I'm not going to go into all of them. There are some credible tips, including a few people who saw a man with a similar description with two little girls. There's also a ransom call to the family that's believed to be a hoax and is never traced.
A $5,000 reward is announced for information leading to the recovery of the girls. In today's dollars, that would be worth about... $5,000 Australian dollars in the 70s? Uh-huh.
28 grand for two missing little girls who have been abducted from a stadium, potentially. The public is a little like, what the fuck? That's really low over this. Right. So that's partly because of what I'm going to tell you next. So there's this brazen daytime kidnapping in a very public place. It's obviously terrifying for the public. Right. Which is why it's partly such a big deal.
It's like it's not it's just so brazen. Right. You know, but it's also alarming in the fact that it's not unfamiliar because there's a recent case in the area that still looms large in everyone's mind. And people wonder if there's a connection.
Right.
About 10 years earlier, on January 26, 1966, three siblings had disappeared from a town celebration in a public park beach area in Glenelg, Australia, which is just outside of Adelaide, very close. This is the Beaumont children. We never put out an episode about this case, but I'm sure one of us covered it when we were Australia touring.
Yeah. And it comes up a lot. It's come up recently because there's always new leads. Again, it's a cold case. So this happened about 10 years before the girls were kidnapped from the stadium. So the Beaumont children, it was Jane, who was nine, Arna, who was seven, and Grant Beaumont, who was four. Mm-hmm.
The children were playing with him and appear to be relaxed and enjoying themselves like maybe they knew him and were seen walking away together from the beach. No big deal. But they were never seen again and their disappearance has never been solved. And people have always believed that these two cases are linked. And Case File covers the Beaumont children in episode 100 of Case File.
Over the years, multiple men, a disturbing amount of whom have been convicted of other crimes against children in the area and Australia in general, have emerged as possible suspects in this case. And a lot are tied to the Beaumont abductions as well.
There's a group of men known by the media as the family who are thought to be involved in a pedophile ring during the 70s and 80s who are responsible for the kidnapping and sexual abuse of a number of teenage boys and young men. This is a fucking disturbing case. Case file covers it in episode 166. There's so many gruesome details. I'm clearly not going to get into it.
Only one of those men from the pedophile ring has ever been tried and convicted for these crimes or even their name brought up in the media. This man named Bevan Spencer Von Einem was sentenced in 1984 for the murder of a 15-year-old boy named Richard Kelvin who had been abducted near his home in Adelaide.
This man is now considered a suspected serial killer and his name comes up in connection with the Adelaide Oval abductions, mostly because of the testimony against him by an anonymous informant. And this anonymous informant was like part of this ring and still gave this information. So it's not just like, I don't know, it seems more credible because of that. Well, right. Yeah. Yeah.
And this anonymous informant says that Bevan Spencer von Einem once boasted to him that he had taken the children and dumped the bodies in bushland south of Adelaide. These allegations have never been sustained, but this dude is pure fucking evil and it's a very disturbing case. Yeah. In 1999, a man named Arthur Stanley Brown is charged in another awful cold case.
On the 26th of August, 1970, which is just three years before the abductions in the stadium, sisters Judith, who was seven, and Susan McKay, who was five, disappeared from a suburb of Townsville, Queensland, less than 10 minutes after leaving their home, and were later found murdered two days later.
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