Cosi suggests Stansbury search for buried Beaumont children

Another theory is behind the call to search a second location for the Beaumont children, with Andrew ‘Cosi’ Costello leading the charge.

Andrew ‘Cosi’ Costello said he’s always thought the Beaumont children could be buried at the old Castalloy factory or an alternative location 200km away.

With efforts to search the old Castalloy site almost exhausted, Cosi latched onto speculation the children could in fact be buried in Stansbury, announcing on Wednesday his commitment to self-fund a dig at that site if the Castalloy excavation fails.

Andrew 'Cosi' Costello is pushing for a privately-funded dig in Stansbury. Picture: Channel 7.

“It only takes a quick Google search to find a lot of evidence that points towards Stansbury,” Cosi said.

Two members of the McIntyre family, brother and sister Andrew McIntyre and Rachel Vaughan, have long claimed their deceased father Allan ‘Max’ McIntyre and convicted pedophile Anthony Alan Munro are connected to the Beaumont case.

Police have previously said there was no evidence linking Max McIntyre or Munro to the high-profile disappearance of the three children, nine-year-old Jane, seven-year-old Arnna and four-year-old Grant, who went missing from Glenelg Beach on January 26, 1966.

The three Beaumont children Jane, Arnna and Grant pictured in 1965.

Andrew McIntyre, 71, claims to know exactly where they were buried — a filled over well on his family’s Stansbury property.

“They’re not (at the Castalloy factory),” Andrew McIntyre claimed to The Advertiser.

“They’re in Stansbury at the bottom of a well.

Andrew McIntyre claims this picture shows the site where the Beaumont children are buried beneath a sinkhole in Stansbury. Picture: Supplied

It is this well, or sinkhole, which is the subject of the latest site of interest, according to Cosi.

“It is possible that the (Beaumont) children could have been buried in a sinkhole on private property at Stansbury,” Cosi said.

Official records show the property now belongs to Andrew McIntyre’s half-brother and half-sister, Daniel and Simone McIntyre, who The Advertiser does not accuse of having any connection to, or knowledge of, the disappearance of the Beaumonts.

Cosi has repeatedly said his pledge to dig was subject to the siblings’ blessing, leaving the door open for their cooperation.

On Thursday at the Castalloy excavation organised by MLC Frank Pangallo, forensic archaeologist Maciej Henneberg announced his team had made a discovery.

The professor said they had found a “2m long, 2m deep pit of mixed colour sand and a little bit of organic material” that was a “similar size” to the grave the team was trying to locate.

This excavation relates to claims made by two brothers they were paid by Harry Phipps, a suspect in the case, to dig a grave-sized hole three days after the Beaumont children disappeared.

Professor Maciej Henneberg said the hole was found at the original 2013 search site, but was in a deeper, unexplored area, with the mixed colours suggested someone had dug a hole and refilled it.

He said it was too early to assess the significance of the find on Thursday afternoon as the excavation team continued digging out the coloured dirt.

Originally published as Cosi suggests Stansbury search for buried Beaumont children