Mr B's reference to alleged surgical experimentation corresponded to the coroner's reports on several of von Einem's alleged murder victims. The little girl’s death was ruled a homicide, but her identification and who was responsible for her death remained a mystery. The Beaumonts were reported to have accepted that the truth of their children's disappearances may never be discovered. On the morning of 26 January ( Australia Day), the Beaumont children asked their mother to visit Glenelg Beach again.

He related an alleged conversation in which von Einem boasted of having taken three children from a beach several years earlier, and said he had taken them home to conduct "experiments". This was a nice enough quick read that could have gone a bit deeper into the angst of grief and having a loved one go missing.

As she's drawn into the police investigation and the heart of a media storm, Sarah's presence arouses suspicion too. Woman claims she was sexually assaulted by man at centre of investigation into disappearance of Beaumont children".

This is a novel of many levels – first and foremost it’s a good story, with a believable and exciting double plot. Police investigating the case found several witnesses who had seen the Beaumont children in Colley Reserve, near Glenelg Beach, in the company of a tall man with fair to light brown hair and a thin face, and in his mid-thirties. At the same time, federal, state and local medicolegal death investigators are constantly working to provide names to thousands of deceased persons nationwide. Colin McNally, forensic imaging supervisor at NCMEC, is the artist who created Ware County Jane Doe’s image that led to her identity. While they were waiting for a prescription to be filled, Scott went to get her car to bring it around to meet them.She continues to grow the fantastic partnerships already established with Police and encourages new ways of working. Josie has worked at Missing People since 2012 in a range of different roles across the organisation.

I really liked the way this author wove flashbacks throughout so we can both follow the story and understand how we got to this point. Tucked in an uncut page of a two-hundred-year-old poetry book is a letter that she believes was written by Jane Austen, mentioning with regret a manuscript that "went missing at Greenbriar in Devonshire. In November 2013, a one-metre-squared section of a factory in North Plympton, which had been owned by Phipps, was excavated. Derek Percy (1948–2013), a convicted child murderer and Victoria's then-longest-serving prisoner, was suggested in a 2007 article in Melbourne's The Age newspaper as a suspect in the Beaumont case. Claire said: “Early on in the relationship he asked her to look after some money, a few hundred quid.Helen won the Marsh Award in 2013 for ‘outstanding achievement’ in working with children and families’ as recognised by Barnados for this work. At the time of the investigation, the Beaumont parents received widespread sympathy from the Australian public.

The book is incredibly pacy, with Sarah stumbling on Jenny's corpse midway through the first chapter, and from then on the story never slows down. The NamUs Analytical Division also assists with the location of family members for next of kin death notifications and DNA sample collections for comparison. This felt almost like the coda to a longer story, where many things had happened to the characters already, and we just got to see the last adventure and culmination of it all.Helen is a passionate trainer and speaker covering the issues and needs of missing people, young people and those missing someone. Like buses they’re now coming fast and furious and will continue to do so until – unlike those reliable hybrids who’ve have it bred out of them – they go broody and stop laying.