thunderwombat
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Have replayed the Luxembourg video. Fernand answers their question at the door, and in the driveway later. At the door, Sarah translates "he says he's never been", to Australia, in answer to " ..... and I'm just wondering if you can tell me how long you were in Australia?" On second viewing of it, I must say if two people rocked up at my door and put their hands out for me to shake saying their name I would probably straight away think they were Jehovah's Witnesses, selling something or up to mischief. Just my thoughts though.
Jehovah's witness, an electricity or gas company representative who want to give you a better deal or someone with a pile of leaflets who wants to come into your house to change your light bulbs. All doing their jobs but with the greatest respect, please sod off. And if it was 7am I wouldn't be saying please.
Earlier this year a woman came to our door asking about an old acquaintance who had lived in our street years ago that she wanted to make contact with. She only remembered that his first name was Peter, his surname was Greek and she thought he lived at no 7. My husband has lived here all his life and pretty much knows the history of every house but couldn't help her. My husband is very friendly and loves to chat with strangers, I'm not so nice and have only lived here not too long but I love doing research and am always looking for a new challenge. So I get on the PC and look up old electoral rolls, local history, public records, while my husband lists every person he has ever known in the street, families he remembers living at no 7, and he just can't recall any Peter with a Greek last name. Sorry Ma'am, we can't help I really wish we could. She just does not give up and she keeps saying Peter, number 7, it's spelled P.E. T. E. R. HE LIVED AT NUMBER SEVEN, you don't know him? Do you know where is his now? Are you SURE you don't know? Really? You don't know an-y-thing at all? All with much frustrated sighing and eye contact that honestly made me a little freaked out. It took about 45 minutes to get her to leave (only because my mother-in-law called out that it was time for us to drive her to bingo) and she turned up AGAIN the next day, no way was I about to go through all that again so I didn't answer the door. At least she didn't have a film crew catching me in ratty old pyjamas.
My point, and I do have one, is that sometimes there just isn't an answer to a question. You can ask as often and as publicly as you want, but if someone doesn't know something, they can't tell you what they don't know. I'm sure there isn't a conspiracy between Lesley Loveday and Susie Cooper to hide the whereabouts of Marion. I certainly don't think their behaviour is suspicious, or cagey, or defensive as is sometimes suggested.
I had always assumed the the personal ad placed by an F. Remakel mentioned Luxembourg and that was the link to Fernand R. I just had a look at the original and it doesn't even mention Lux. at all. The F could be for Frederic or Fritz or Fifi for all we know and belong to some one living in Oshkosh, Wisconsin who may even be deceased by now. Maybe he wanted a pen pal that may lead to more serious things (this was how my in-laws met) and never set foot in Australia. So the only reason the podcast seems to have chosen this Fernand Remakel is because of the initial F? This is real Columbo stuff. I've got no skin in this game and have no idea if Fernand Remakel is involved in Marion's disappearance - he may have kidnapped the Lindberg baby and poisoned Phar Lap as far as I know - but the podcasters need to do do a lot more research before they contact this man and his family again.