I was just reading the postcard and Marion mentions antique shops in Rye.
We are not allowed to sleuth any family members
I have now managed to find an article about the guy mentioned in some old archives but behind a pay wall. He was a local artist and owned an antique shop in Rye. He was assumed to be a small town fraudster but may be worth a mention as Marion was in Rye and visiting antique shops.
Nothing about an antique shop in those articles. It says Mr Price ran an art gallery in Rye until 1986 (the business collapsed with his marriage) and he was of no fixed address in 2000. Perhaps his car that broke down was imaginary but he might have needed the train fare a lot of the time.
And he (Munley) sold the victim's belongings in antique shops. This was in 1999. Worthing is around 80km from Rye, west along the coast. (I had to look it up; it might have been part of London for all I knew.) Interesting.
Thank you for confirming, yes it was an art gallery he owned at 28 High Street Rye which was close to the bank Marion visited. It was so long ago I heard about him that it was difficult to attain the correct information so glad that you have confirmed JLZ. Some of his art work is still being sold but he is not the kind of league of artists Marion was familiar with.
Munley is more questionable and I wonder what business he was failed in before he committed his crime. He forged applications for credit cards and cheques and systematically stole valuables from Jean Barnes home worth thousands in the months before he killed her. This was not a spur of the moment attack on a pensioner according to the newspaper reports but something carefully planned out.
I really wonder whether the in-person withdrawals happened or not. Not just whether it was Marion, but whether anyone at all attended the branches and did that.
It has always been said that these were cash withdrawals rather than money transfers from one bank to another. Someone must have been making the withdrawals in person and a woman (or someone disguised as a woman) and Marion could have had a third party or power of attorney listed to withdraw money.
I know it's what's said--Sally's records?--but taking into account what gets lost, and added, in communication, especially where there's a chain, with additional complication where some people are being discreet, and what changes in memory, and notes to oneself not being altogether accurate because one expects to remember what was meant, or anyway not to be needing to read them decades later: I'm uncommitted to those withdrawals.
Interesting!!! Says he was going to Southport!
Yes he was supposed to have been going to meet with someone in Southport on his motorcycle and vanished into thin air. He had previously worked for a firm called 'Hunter' security at a shopping centre in another town. When I read about the strange 'Natalia is alive but you will never see her again' message sent to Marion's daughter from a Clark Hunter it made me think even more about this person.
