 The Sunday Mail's front page on the day after Ratcliffe and Gordon disappeared | |
| Date | 25 August 1973 |
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| Time | 3:50pm[1] |
| Duration | Missing for 51 years and 12 days |
| Venue | Adelaide Oval |
| Location | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Type | Abduction |
| Missing |
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Joanne Ratcliffe (born 1962) and Kirste Jane Gordon (born 1968) were two Australian girls who went missing while attending an Australian rules football match at the Adelaide Oval on 25 August 1973. Their disappearance, and presumed abduction and murder, became one of South Australia's most infamous crimes. The presumed murders are thought by South Australia Police and the media to be related to the disappearance of the Beaumont children in 1966. The case is sometimes referred to as the Adelaide Oval abductions.