Georgia Hardstark
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4,112 appearances
38 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Feb 2025
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This man was not convicted because of a hung jury and was not given a new trial because he was in his 90s by the time he was charged. Remember, it happened in 1970 and he wasn't arrested until 1999. So they considered him too senile to stand trial, although some people think he was faking it. Now, this occurred in 1970, three years before the abductions of Joanne and Kirstie.
These locations aren't close. However, he bears a resemblance to the descriptions of the man in the wide brim hat. And he's also considered a prime suspect for the Beaumont children disappearance. A witness from that day near the stadium identified him much later as the man, which is, you know, not very reliable. But he's a potential suspect.
And then Joanne's little sister, Susie Wilkinson, she believes that it was a different third suspect. This is a man named Stanley Arthur Hart, and he's known as a pedophile. He lives in the area. He's a devoted supporter of the North Adelaide Football Club, which is one of the two teams playing Adelaide Oval on the day of the abduction. So it's very likely he was there.
Seven years before they were taken, he had been charged with six sex offenses against an 11-year-old girl. In 2009, his own grandson gave a written confession saying that he and his grandfather were at Adelaide Oval on the days the girls disappeared. But he was three or four years old on the day of the game at the stadium.
And when he wrote this confession in 2009, he was in prison for charges for crimes against children. Oh. And so authorities initially dismissed these claims, but private investigators for the Gordon and Ratcliffe families take them very seriously. This man, the grandfather, died in 1999.
And in the late 2000s, private investigators searched a property in a rural area about two hours north of Adelaide that belonged to the grandfather. following a hand-drawn map that this grandson had provided to them. Like, he was adamant that this was his grandfather. This map leads the investigators to an underground tunnel which contains two steel barrels. They call the police in.
The police return to the site. They determine that the barrels had traces of blood in them. Some reports also claim that the investigators found a scrapbook with newspaper clippings about the abduction. as well as children's clothing. It's just all this shit that you're like, test it, test it, test it. It hasn't been tested fully. It doesn't make any sense.
That's exactly what it is. And then the other thing is that Anthony Kilmartin, the 13-year-old concession worker, he sees a photo of this man, the grandfather, and and the hat he used to wear, which they also find at his house. And he believes it's an exact match of the man he saw at the game that day, which seems a little more credible to me since it seems like it'll be burned into his memory.
Absolutely. You know what I mean? Yeah. Back in 1974, after the disappearance of the girls, both the Ratcliffs and the Gordons welcome baby girls into their families. So Joanne, her little sister Susie, who they never got to meet, She goes on to be one of the biggest champions for solving this case, and she still is. She continues to push for answers today.
She's about 50 now, and she is the last living member of Joanne's immediate family. She is determined to see the case solved. The family moved out of Adelaide in the 80s, and Susie says, quote, to the very day we left, Mom would leave the front light on in the hope one day Jo would come home. My niece now leaves her front light on.
It's just something that's carried on through generations, end quote. And Susie actually runs an organization called Leave a Light On, and they advocate for missing persons and their loved ones. I know. In a recent Women's Weekly article, Susie said that she thinks about her sister's bravery often. And she says, quote, people forget that she was only 11.
She was given the responsibility of looking after Kirstie and she stuck by that even if it meant sacrificing herself. Oh, God. I know. Little Kirstie, four-year-old Kirstie's parents, they've been generally less public over the years, but they do speak to the press occasionally. Kirstie's mom, Christine, said in 2017, quote, What is closure? Do you need to have a body?
Do you need to have a funeral? Do you need to bring her home? To us, she is home because she is here with us. End quote. And that is the heartbreaking story of the Adelaide Oval Abductions. I think it could be solved.
Definitely. There's actually a GoFundMe being run by an investigative journalist to have those barrels tested more thoroughly that you can go check out. And yeah, police haven't thoroughly tested those barrels. It's just wild. Yeah.
Yeah. Sorry for another cold case.
Definitely. I mean, they're just cold cases are just the stories we tell that haven't gotten their answer yet. It's not that that's it. The end of the story. It's an unsolved mystery. Like it's just still waiting for the last puzzle piece. And so maybe when we tell these stories, people will pay more attention and it can happen.
That's the important piece. I mean, I wonder why we have such differing opinions about them. Like, I won't even start a puzzle because I don't care about finishing it. You have to finish a puzzle.
I'd rather think about the puzzle, puzzle over the puzzle, and then watch TV. I don't care.
That's why I want to tell the cold case stories. It's because I'm like, Karen, my friend, you're interested in this too. Like, let's... Put these pieces together. Let's like, you know, make our eyes all soft and see where the last piece goes. We could do this.
I don't know.
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