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That remark really struck me, and speaks to the kind of person he truly is, especially since he was responding to a question about whether he acknowledged the great harm he could have caused these women. "There are thousands and thousands on the internet every day" accompanied by a shrug just...

Thanks for the tipoff, brjajk. Searching for that person on FB brings up wild conspiracy theories, rants and racism. Ugh.

Yes, the old fashioned tea chests with metal strips are hard to come by now - if you find one it's more likely to be in an antiques or vintage bric-a-brac place. My family used them in a move in Australia but that was literally 45 years ago. I think even in the late 90s there wouldn't have been...

I think you're correct about the secrecy. RB has always just relied on the frequent name changes and general casual vagueness/nonspecificity of his words to ensure his victims couldn't track him down again. He's lazy and doesn't do more than he needs to do, he's not a criminal mastermind...

I also think this. It's a very romantic, idealised thing to do and I can totally see Marion doing it. There's an older lady in my immediate family who did the same thing, legally changed her name to match someone she was in love with and thought she had a life together with. She thought it was a...

I'm pretty sure that one of the sisters or Marion's friend mentioned in the earlier (non-streamed) part of the inquest that she thought 50 was her last chance to find a man and after 50 it would be too late. This is something few people want to talk about but I think it's also an important...

I agree 100%. There are thousands of pages in the documentation Casselden has, at least once he quoted a page number in the thousands. I'm willing to bet there's a massive amount of information that hasn't been revealed, and won't be revealed at the inquest because it isn't directly relevant to...

I have a theory about the Coles case. There was an incident in the Lismore Coles in March 2020 where a man attacked and knocked over some women in the store. I wonder if DdeH was one of them and sued Coles for it a few months later.

RGW, Diane's father, was born in Australia. His parents were married in Perth WA in 1911, and he was born in Coolgardie WA in 1912. You can find them on the Pioneers Index by searching for their surname - there is no option to link to individual records, nor does it show anything more than is on...

Casselden said that there were 10 passports in 8 different names - I made a note of that at the time. So there are only 8 'passport names'.

I've discovered there is a Coroner's Body Card for Ilona Reid in the Victorian State Archives at North Melbourne. It's not digitised but it is open access. I'm going to try and get in there on the weekend after this one (that's the earliest I can go) and see what it says. If anyone can get there...

I'm more than an hour behind in my livestream (damn work meetings) but I wanted to weigh in about the name change as I've observed this happen in my own family. I have a close relative just a few years older than Marion, who left her husband in her early fifties for another man, changed her...

Diane was born in Australia. The Sydney Morning Herald of April 20 1951 has a birth notice for a Diane Walker born on April 16, 1951.

Excellent sleuthing! I missed that one - I was looking for the father based on DdH's birth announcement in the SMH, but he seems to have gone by his middle name.

No, it's an incoming passenger list, listing passengers who disembarked in Australia.