Australia Australia - Marion Barter, 51, missing after trip to UK, June 1997 #8

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Casselden asks RB about staying at the Novotel in Brisbane. RB responds on some tangent about his children’s swimming nationals on the Southside of Brisbane and staying in a nearby hotel, but adds “certainly not at the airport”. The Novotel at the Bne Airport is very new, I dare say roughly 5 years old. The Novotel in Brisbane is in the CBD.
 
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Agent for Nureyev in Deal, which is a VERY small and sleepy town in Kent.

He's also talking about making appointments to see agents in France, but they didn't go to France, they went to Deal, Dover and Harwich. (not exactly the centres of the UK entertainment industry.)
Exactly o_O They are more like sleepy country/seaside towns. If she wanted an agent she would head to London or another big city, surely. I think we can all agree this is BS.
 
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Mr C. Is going to lose his mind.

I don't blame him. This is so frustrating. I think RB knows he's getting on Mr. C's nerves and is muddling things up on purpose!!
 
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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 earlier, please feel free to do so :)

Body Cards are the file containing information the death, and may include lots of info or very little. This would be where the information is located that made the Coroner decide not to hold an inquest, so at the very least there should be a police report and medical report or autopsy in there. There may also be statements or affadavits from whoever identified her.
 
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Obviously you weren’t planning on settling in Europe… You just told her that because you’re a bleeping conman.
 
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I'm looking forward to the beating up at the train station/ airport bit.
 
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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 earlier, please feel free to do so :)

Body Cards are the file containing information the death, and may include lots of info or very little. This would be where the information is located that made the Coroner decide not to hold an inquest, so at the very least there should be a police report and medical report or autopsy in there. There may also be statements or affadavits from whoever identified her.
Another member has ordered it I believe, but please let us know if you do go what you find :)
 
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I'm concerned that his speech is starting to go.
 
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Can RB be asked to come back again if all info is not discussed on time?
 
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I'm concerned that his speech is starting to go.

It did yesterday when RB was getting flustered or when he knew he could be proved wrong.
Like the airline thing
 
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My current thoughts are that DdH did all the driving and was there every step of the way in his fraud. Fully believe they stole Marion's wallet and DdH impersonated her. It's some kind of sick Bonnie and Clyde situation. I have no evidence, just a sick feeling in my stomach.

I didn't want to believe this but it is looking more like it. I have always had a belief that people are born with an innate sense of morals and kindness, fairness. And I am sensitive to the distress of other people in difficult situations.

I always felt DdeH knew some small details of varies things in this lunatics life but not be part of it.

But reading all these posts and revisiting her evidence again, I am now thinking my belief system is something that needs to be overhauled :(

I would never make a good sleuth, I am too sensitive to believing what most people say as truth. (not talking about him here).

Thank you to all of you for sharing so much of what you know thus far. It has opened my eyes to how people behave.

This whole case makes me so sad to think of the destruction that this one person has caused to so many lives. He has no moral compass. Being an orphan ( if he actually is) is no excuse. He had 40 odd years to change those values being a father.

Without the continued research by Sally and her team, none of this would have come to light. How many more women are out there that have not come forward.

I hope that Sally gets to find out what happened to her mum. That is what she deserves at least.
And that Marions story needs to be a catalyst for change in many investigations going forward.
Let that be her legacy not his.
He deserves to be forgotten forever.
 
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He must panic everytime the can produce something like the passenger card. The size of those folders are massive.
I'd be assuming they know everything.
 
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I didn't want to believe this but it is looking more like it. I have always had a belief that people are born with an innate sense of morals and kindness, fairness. And I am sensitive to the distress of other people in difficult situations.

I always felt DdeH knew some small details of varies things in this lunatics life but not be part of it.

But reading all these posts and revisiting her evidence again, I am now thinking my belief system is something that needs to be overhauled :(

I would never make a good sleuth, I am too sensitive to believing what most people say as truth. (not talking about him here).

Thank you to all of you for sharing so much of what you know thus far. It has opened my eyes to how people behave.

This whole case makes me so sad to think of the destruction that this one person has caused to so many lives. He has no moral compass. Being an orphan ( if he actually is) is no excuse. He had 40 odd years to change those values being a father.

Without the continued research by Sally and her team, none of this would have come to light. How many more women are out there that have not come forward.

I hope that Sally gets to find out what happened to her mum. That is what she deserves at least.
And that Marions story needs to be a catalyst for change in many investigations going forward.
Let that be her legacy not his.
He deserves to be forgotten forever.

And lets not forget he's an orphan who then left his child/ren with Ilona with no parents. He has no compassion even for his own children.
 
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And lets not forget he's an orphan who then left his child/ren with Ilona with no parents. He has no compassion even for his own children.
He says he’s an orphan.
 
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Didn't his wife say something different.......
 
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Casselden asks RB about staying at the Novotel in Brisbane. RB responds on some tangent about his children’s swimming nationals on the Southside of Brisbane and staying in a nearby hotel, but adds “certainly not at the airport”. The Novotel at the Bne Airport is very new, I dare say roughly 5 years old. The Novotel in Brisbane is in the CBD.

I am not sure of what year he is raving on about re national but the Chandler Swimming Centre opened here in early 1980 on the South side of Brisbane. Until then all Swim Meets were held at the Centenary Pool near the CBD.

But there is NO Novotel anywhere near Chandler. The closest would be the Brisbane CBD
 
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This is all under oath right....
 
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"Are you making this up as you go along, Mr Blum?"
 
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