That's very true- I agree completely. I don't know how the logistics of that works. She indicated that she was starting her new life, and didn't want contact with her family. To run an investigation into where she is now- how does that fit with her rights to have chosen to leave? If she is found, who is told? Because unless she changes her mind- the only information able to be released already has been. If she walked into a police station today, and said "here I am, here is my proof, I have already told you I don't want contact. I am alive, but want nothing disclosed" I don't even know if they can pass on the alive part. Maybe with her permission the police could say "she is alive" and that's it. If Marion is out there alive and well, I truly hope all this attention will drive her to make contact, even if only with police. I don't envy the coroner making the decision. If an inquest occurs, and the police documents are made available, a whole lot more about Marion's actions in 1997 will be revealed. She has every right to that privacy. Yet, the fact that no one can find trace of her in the 20 + years since is highly suspicious, and warrants investigation to check on her safety and wellbeing. Marion has the right to a new life, but surely Sally has the right to live her own life without being in limbo. It is so complex and difficult. I guess I think of people like Lori Ruff- no one from her past would have found a trace of her, as she was living under an assumed identity.
I was really making the point that the podcast producers don't always seem as concerned as I believe they should about reporting completely truthfully. In conversations 3 Brian straight up says that NSWP protocol says an officer must physically sight a person or find remains to list a person as located, and that the police had ignored their own protocol. That is not true. Not being happy with what has happened is not and excuse to be liberal with the truth. (5:53) I am really concerned that in the efforts to make the police look bad, actual clues might be missed. I feel that Sally and Marion deserve a bit better. Garry Sheehan, too.