The Beaumont Children
Along with Bevan Spencer von Einem, he is considered to be the best suspect for the Beaumont children disappearance as he bore a similarity to an identikit picture of the suspect for both the Beaumont children and Adelaide Oval cases. Brown is also a suspect in several other child murders and disappearances.
A search for a connection to the Beaumonts was unsuccessful as no employment records existed that could shed light on his work history such as showing holidays when he may have travelled interstate. Some of the records were believed lost in the 1974 Brisbane flood and it is also possible that Brown, who had unrestricted access to government buildings may have deleted his own employment files. Brown is considered a suspect for the Beaumont children disappearance, based on the connections that have been made between him and the Adelaide Oval Abduction.
Although there is no proof that he had ever visited Adelaide, a witness recalled having a conversation with Brown in which he mentioned having seen the Adelaide Festival Centre nearing completion which places him in Adelaide after June 1973. The oval abduction occurred on 25 August 1973. Another witness who earlier had reported seeing a man near the oval carrying a young girl while another older girl (the two victims?) in obvious distress followed, identified Brown as the man she had seen after seeing his picture on television in December 1998 in relation to his arrest for the MacKay murders. She had reported that the man was wearing a pair of horn rimmed glasses which had fallen to the ground, been picked up and placed in a pocket. Brown is known to have worn horn rimmed reading glasses which police consider a significant point in the identification. This identification though is based on that of a woman who was aged 14 when she saw him, only for one minute, and who then saw a picture of Brown, now aged 86, 25 years later, albeit Brown at 86 compared to a photo of him taken in the 1970s showed little change in his appearance.
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