vivienbee
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I agree with the majority of what you said, but not about the name change. There's nothing suggesting that Marion would have asked her family to call her 'Florabella' if she changed her name, regardless of the circumstances she left under.The police have a duty to locate Marion. Full stop. Doesn't matter what her intentions were or what the investigators thought her intentions were between 1997 and today. According to the law, she is still missing.
For the longest time, my instinct was that she met with foul play. And I still do think that. Mostly because the proof-of-life checks have turned up empty.
Yet, since the inquest, I see more of a gray area now for two reasons.
When Marion's friend and Sally both testified that they could see Marion choosing to miss her only daughter's wedding for any reason at all other than being held captive, to me, is troubling. That says more about Marion's character than almost all other anecdotes in the podcast.
On top of that, eek....that letter to Lee. While it reads as fun and exciting and positively merry, the one thing we all know (and she knew) was that she legally changed her name. So, if you get into Marion's mindset, there's something so cold about that line when she mentions meeting another woman named Maz. She's lying by omission, firstly. And secondly, she's showing no sign of guilt that her little sister calls her Maz when, in reality, Maz is no more (and if she had no plan to return, it's only a matter of time until Lee figures out she's been lied to). It's very cold. I'd be hurt. Unless Lee knew she changed her name, you'd think Marion would want to skirt the topic of affectionate nicknames and identities all together in such a short letter.
The reverse of that is like if Marion wrote that letter to her baby sis "Leap" but "Leap" is actually Michalina Philomena Lee Wittelsbach now. Sure, you can call her Leap but she doesn't really go by that name anymore.
I just need to know WHERE ON EARTH IS SHE!?
Some of my friends from high school have nicknames related to their surnames, and they are now married with different names entirely. We still call them by their original nicknames.
My sister has many nicknames for me, and they are personal to us. That doesn't change just because someone legally changes their name.
In part, it is technically a lie of omission, if you consider her not telling her anything about the entire situation going on with her a lie of omission, which is a fair stance.
But the name itself I don't see as strange.