Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #23

[Lord Peter Flimsy]

See Joni has put a call out on the fb page? Asking for everyone’s theories on why Marion changed her name…

Some question over whether she actually knew her name had been changed. When her new passport application (under Florabella) was witnessed by the dentist in Brisbane in May 1997 he couldn’t categorically confirm he actually saw her. He could only confirm she had been a patient in the last 3 years. He just signed off numerous requests like these. Could anyone have turned up and handed it in and collected it?

 

[KinseyFan]

Some question over whether she actually knew her name had been changed. When her new passport application (under Florabella) was witnessed by the dentist in Brisbane in May 1997 he couldn’t categorically confirm he actually saw her. He could only confirm she had been a patient in the last 3 years. He just signed off numerous requests like these. Could anyone have turned up and handed it in and collected it?

Agree, when other known factors are taken into account too. Like filling out others paperwork at airports, keeping others important documents for safe keeping, going to extraordinary lengths for deception. Could ‘smoke and mirrors’ routines, along with coercive control techniques, have meant Marion didn’t know of name change?

 

[Laidback]

Agree, when other known factors are taken into account too. Like filling out others paperwork at airports, keeping others important documents for safe keeping, going to extraordinary lengths for deception. Could ‘smoke and mirrors’ routines, along with coercive control techniques, have meant Marion didn’t know of name change?

She got on a plane with that passport.

 

[CuriousKat99]

She got on a plane with that passport.

Yes, if she used the FNMR passport to travel out of Australia, it would have been hard for her not to notice the name when she went through immigration. Based on what we know, she was on her own too, as he avoided travelling with his victims. If he had been on the same flight, he may have been able to pull it off and have her oblivious to the new name.

IMO much more likely that he convinced her that they were getting married, for romantic reasons and probably also so she could work in the UK. This explains the change in family name, but still begs the question of why her given names were changed.

It has been discussed previously on WS that it may have suited his nefarious business plans to have her initials closely matching his FNR identity. Perhaps he convinced her that it would be even more romantic for them both to have matching initials? (Two becoming almost one)

Unless she travelled out of Australia on a completely different identity? But IMO that’s highly unlikely.

 

[Lord Peter Flimsy]

She got on a plane with that passport.

This is very true and does on the face of it prove she did herself change her name. It was that some had questioned this on FB.

Unlikely I know but another theory is that he presented her with a fait accompli as some ‘romantic’ gesture. Better than her saying no or giving the game away before she left. It was barely a month before her flight out that the dentist witnessed her passport.

 

[KinseyFan]

She got on a plane with that passport.

Good point. I forgot they didn’t fly together.