On Saturday August 25, 1973 two young girls- Joanne Ratcliffe, aged 11, and 4 year old Kirstie Gordon- were abducted from Adelaide Oval during an Australian Rules Football match.
The girls did not know each other but they could have easily been mistaken for sisters.
The 'Adelaide Oval' case provided many unwanted parallells with Australia's most famous unsolved crime- the disappearance of the three Beaumont children from Glenelg beach seven years before...
'children taken from a public place in broad daylight during school holidays, distraught parents making public appeals for their safe return and a police investigation that provided few answers'
