In the early morning hours of August 23, 1987, a freight train slowed in the woods outside Bryant, Arkansas.

On the tracks ahead were two teenage boys.

Sixteen-year-old Don Henry. Seventeen-year-old Kevin Ives.

Within hours, police declared their deaths an accident — blaming marijuana intoxication and poor judgment. But almost immediately, the evidence began to contradict that story.

In Part I of Boys on the Tracks, The Midnight Mystery Archive reconstructs what really happened that night and what investigators chose to ignore.

This episode examines:

• The boys’ final hours and why their families knew something was wrong • The train crew’s sworn testimony that the bodies did not appear to be struck alive • Toxicology reports showing THC levels far too low to cause unconsciousness • The autopsy findings that revealed hidden stab wounds • The powerful medical examiner who dismissed those injuries • The crime-scene details that made an “accident” physically impossible • Why the bodies appeared placed — not hit • And how the families forced the case back into public view

Through court records, crime lab reports, contemporaneous reporting from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and later forensic reviews, this episode establishes one fact clearly:

Don Henry and Kevin Ives were murdered.

And their deaths were staged to look like something else.

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Part I ends where the story truly begins — when witnesses start coming forward, federal authorities quietly take interest, and the case shifts from tragedy to something far more dangerous.

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A Close to the Beaumont Case and Preview the Boys on the Tracks A Bridge Between Australia and Arkansas – The Midnight Mystery Archive

The Beaumont Children did not simply disappear — their case settled into the ground, into records, into unanswered questions that have lasted for nearly sixty years.

In this special mini-episode of The Midnight Mystery Archive, we reflect on what the disappearance of Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont revealed about daylight abductions, witness memory, and the limits of investigation when time becomes the greatest obstacle.

We then turn to the next case in our long-form series: the deaths of Don Henry and Kevin Ives, known as The Boys on the Tracks.

Unlike the Beaumont case, this story does not begin with silence.

It begins with bodies found on railroad tracks in rural Arkansas… and an official explanation that immediately conflicted with the evidence.

This episode explores:

• What the Beaumont case teaches us about unresolved disappearance • How some investigations fade while others fracture • Why the Boys on the Tracks case is fundamentally different • What happens when evidence is visible, but inconvenient • How long-form, source-driven storytelling changes the way we understand cold cases

This is the space between stories — where one mystery settles, and another begins to surface.

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The Beaumont Children, Part I-Suspects, Confessions, and the Long Search

In Part II of The Beaumont Children series, the investigation moves beyond the beach and into the long, difficult years that followed — the suspects, the confessions, the property searches, and the slow realization that this case would never resolve cleanly.

By early 1966, South Australian police were already overwhelmed with hundreds of tips about men across Adelaide, many with no connection to Glenelg at all, as the case transformed from a missing-children investigation into a national trauma.

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This episode examines how that flood of information reshaped the case:

• Why dozens of men falsely confessed • How investigators learned to distinguish performance from memory • The psychological cost of repeated false certainty • The emergence of Harry Phipps as a long-term person of interest • His wealth, proximity, prior allegations, and the searches of his North Plympton property • Why no evidence ever reached the level required for prosecution • The late excavations, deathbed confessions, and ground searches that yielded nothing • How time erased physical evidence while multiplying theories

Using historical reporting from The Advertiser, ABC News investigations, police statements, and long-form case reconstructions, this episode explores how an investigation can become layered with names, claims, and locations — and still remain unresolved.

The Beaumont children did not become famous. They became missing.

And everything that followed was built around that absence.

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Before suspects. Before confessions. Before decades of theories.

There was a pause.

In this mini episode of The Midnight Mystery Archive, we step into the quiet space that followed the disappearance of Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont — the hours and days when Australia still believed the children might come home, and no one yet knew how this case would harden into one of the country’s most enduring mysteries.

This episode does not introduce new suspects.

Instead, it examines:

• What we truly know at the end of Part I • Why the Beaumont case never faded like other missing-person cases • How daylight, witnesses, and absence created a vacuum • Why uncertainty invites invention • How decades of assumptions layered over a single summer day • Why Part II becomes more complicated — not clearer

This is the moment before the investigation fractures.

The moment before certainty rushes in.

And the moment where the Beaumont Children case quietly becomes something much larger than a disappearance.

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The Beaumont Children, Part I-A Summer Day in Adelaide

On January 26, 1966, three siblings — Jane (9), Arnna (7), and Grant (4) Beaumont — boarded a bus to Glenelg Beach in Adelaide, Australia.

They were seen. They were spoken to. They were last observed walking away from the beach with a man witnesses described as calm, well-dressed, and familiar with the area.

They were never seen again.

In Part I of our two-part series, The Midnight Mystery Archive reconstructs the final known hours of the Beaumont children — minute by minute — using original newspaper reporting, South Australia Police timelines, and eyewitness accounts.

This episode explores:

• The family’s routine on the morning of January 26 • The children’s bus trip to Glenelg • Verified sightings at Colley Reserve and Mosley Street • The man witnesses reported seeing with the children • The unexplained one-pound note used to buy food • The moment concern turned into a missing persons report • The first nighttime police searches along the coast

Told in a calm, narrative style and grounded in contemporaneous sources, this episode focuses not on speculation — but on what can actually be established about the day three children disappeared in plain sight.

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Mini-Episode: Moving from Missy to the Beaumont's

The Missy Bevers case may be complete — but the questions it raised still linger.

In this special transition mini-episode of The Midnight Mystery Archive, we close one investigation and open the door to another.

Kevin reflects on what the Missy Bevers case revealed about evidence, uncertainty, and the limits of surveillance footage, before introducing the next long-form series: the disappearance of the Beaumont Children.

In 1966, three siblings boarded a bus to the beach in Adelaide, Australia. They were seen. They were spoken to. They were watched.

They were never seen again.

This episode explores:

• What the Missy Bevers case taught us about modern investigations • Why some cases never resolve cleanly • How the Beaumont Children disappearance reshaped public understanding of child safety • What makes long-form, evidence-first storytelling different from online speculation • What listeners can expect from the upcoming two-part series

This is the space between cases — where one story ends, another begins, and the questions remain.

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Missy Bevers — Part III: When an Investigation Enters Long Memory The Midnight Mystery Archive

On April 18, 2016, Missy Bevers was murdered inside a small Texas church — and her killer was captured on surveillance video just minutes before her death.

In Part III of our deep-dive series, The Midnight Mystery Archive moves beyond the footage and into the hardest questions the case still leaves behind.

We examine what happened after the initial investigation stalled: the suspects who were quietly eliminated, the theories that refuse to die, and the pieces of evidence that still don’t fit cleanly into any single explanation.

This episode explores:

• Why the surveillance footage both helped and hindered the case • The theories surrounding targeted vs. random attack • Law enforcement’s evolving posture over the years • The limitations of forensic evidence in the church • How digital data, timelines, and behavioral clues conflict • What investigators and independent analysts believe today

Drawing from police statements, court records, contemporary reporting, and expert analysis, this chapter stress-tests the most popular explanations against what can actually be proven.

Missy Bevers’ case is often discussed online — but rarely with this level of sourcing, restraint, and narrative clarity.

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Missy Bevers: When Evidence Outlives the Story A Bridge Between Part II and Part III – The Midnight Mystery Archive

After examining suspects, silence, and investigative boundaries in Part II, this mini-episode pauses to ask a different question:

What happens to a case when the speculation fades… but the evidence remains?

On April 18, 2016, Missy Bevers was murdered inside Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian, Texas. Surveillance footage captured a person in police-style tactical gear inside the building before her arrival. Nearly a decade later, no arrest has been made.

This episode marks the transition from public narrative to long-term investigation.

Rather than revisiting theories, this chapter focuses on:

• how unsolved cases evolve after headlines disappear

• what “active investigation” actually means years later

• how evidence changes as technology improves

• why time can strengthen certain clues while weakening others

• and how truth often survives outside the spotlight

It prepares listeners for Part III, where the series examines how digital records, investigative process, and public memory reshape a case long after the crime scene is closed.

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