Sorry for the long post… but after listening to all two weeks of the recent inquest sitting, I have to say that RB/FDH/FNR/etc seems to have a pattern of making up weird stories that seem to make no logical sense and seem to be shooting himself in the foot, but in his pathological liar/narcissistic head, the made up evidence is trying to counter a potential hole in his initial evidence to police or his wife’s evidence or his previous evidence on the stand (I.e. the belly dancing story, the cheap air tickets from the JAL Director , the wife’s condition/memory story, the horse kick to the head/memory story, the meeting his wife on the boat story where the dates don’t add up).
There’s always a reason for all these stories… but we can’t quite connect the motives of exactly why he’s lying in some of these stories just yet.
As such, I don’t actually believe that he met Marion in Switzerland in the 1960s - it’s all too much of a coincidence. While him telling police that they had an affair when she was married to JW seems to be an extraordinary thing to admit to and shooting himself in the foot (when police probably would never have found this out), I think he’s offered it up as a red herring for some reason unknown to us all at this point in time… but I believe it’s definitely a lie. Maybe it’s to help him paint Marion as the ‘insatiable’ lover he’s clearly presenting her as (what an utter prick), maybe it’s to make it seem like he’s cooperating with police by giving them some new info, or maybe it’s got something to do with his lie that Marion placed the ad rather than the other way around (that she answered his ad), but I think the Switzerland story will be found to be a lie. I think he and his wife (and probably son and daughter too, although they might not have made the connection with their own family) have been listening to the podcast this whole time, and RB concocted this lie when the podcast mentioned that Marion had travelled with JW when he was playing soccer, so when the police finally came knocking, he already had this red herring in his arsenal.
I also think that RB has been watching a lot of The Simpsons. He constantly uses the very same tactic as Grandpa Simpson in his story about the onion. He waffles off on tangents all the time, constantly trying to plant more red herrings and disrupt the prosecution’s flow:
If Marion had really placed an ad in the Courier Mail, surely this could be found easily, as RB gave a date of when this was? Do we know if anyone has found this yet?
I also think that he always used his home phone number in these ads and used his home phone number to answer these ads because DDH knew exactly what he was up to. He had already brainwashed her into thinking this con man behaviour was fine - after all, she benefitted financially from his affairs with these women too. Why did he leave ads and documents out in the open and not lock his filing cabinet? Because I think she knew exactly what he was getting up to. Yes, DDH is one of his victim’s too… but I also think she’s complicit in his fraudulent behaviour.
It also astounds me that he doesn’t think the court will find it strange that he can remember some things so clearly and definitively, like exact details of meeting up with Marion in 1997, but he can’t remember where he went in the UK with JO or what airline he flew with. With his narcissistic brain, I wonder if he realises just how much we’re all laughing at the evidence he’s giving and just how flimsy and utterly crazy it is! He probably truly believes he’s a criminal mastermind. I wonder what on earth his kids think about all this!
