Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #19

[Lord Peter Flimsy]

Another postcard revealed. Confirms the con for me.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Another postcard revealed. Confirms the con for me.

More pieces are coming together,

 

[Housemartyn]

Another TLV episode. A few reveals. Obviously the podcast has been the catalyst to get the ball rolling for this whole sad story to be revealed but I find the hosts hard to listen to and the podcast itself is very poor technically.
Justice for Marion and his numerous other victims.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Another TLV episode. A few reveals. Obviously the podcast has been the catalyst to get the ball rolling for this whole sad story to be revealed but I find the hosts hard to listen to and the podcast itself is very poor technically.
Justice for Marion and his numerous other victims

I find it hard to listen to as well.
I was wishing there was a transcript or subtitles.

 

[Lord Peter Flimsy]

Another TLV episode. A few reveals. Obviously the podcast has been the catalyst to get the ball rolling for this whole sad story to be revealed but I find the hosts hard to listen to and the podcast itself is very poor technically.
Justice for Marion and his numerous other victims.

I did think Sally came across really well though.

 

[TheLondonEye]

Yes very good point. Changing the family name would likely have been something Marion would have been keen on. Changing the given names so the initials match his latest alias just feels like the AKA special touch.

Just seeing this now, but matching initials are exactly what he would have needed to make use of her credit or debit cards. They are given with initials and surname only. So it would have been the perfect way for him to withdraw her money using his own ID as identification if prompted.

 

[Observe_dont_Absorb]

One theory of mine has been that DdeH flew over for a quick visit and it was she who returned as MB. Their son was not living at home then and their daughter was just 16yo I think. She could have been at a swimming camp or staying with a friend's family at the time. So DdeH flies to Amsterdam using a fake passport which RB organised, a day or two before RB himself flew home. He gives her MB's passport with photo changed and passenger cards already filled out, RB flies home and DdeH flies home two days later posing as MB.

If there could be any proof somehow of DdeH flying out that would really nail it. I worked as an accounts assistant in the early 90s for a huge airline, all ticket stubs were physically filed and also reconciled in the sales ledger along with being logged on the computer system. Somewhere in this world every seat of every flight is recorded, unless old records are deliberately destroyed (I wouldn't know).

 

[Lord Peter Flimsy]

I know Sally says don’t quote her but if Marion thought she could buy a UK school for around A$165000 in 1997 by my reckoning (which might be wrong) that would have equated to around £73000. That would be unlikely to buy you a school in Kent or Sussex where property prices don’t come cheap even then. A detached house would have been in the region of £140000 in 1997.

Did Marion have A$165000 to spend? Was it the old AKA ploy? You put so much in and I’ll match it. Is this why ‘they’ were desperate for every cent including the car money? Did Marion actually see/read about any schools for sale or was it just load of old flannel from AKA?

 

[TootsieFootsie]

A lot of us here were thinking that the buying a school thing couldn't possibly be true because of the cost,
but it's starting to look like "someone" may have put the idea in her head that it might be possible, and at less cost than she would have thought.

 

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Will someone post a summary of the TV special for us non-Australians? Thank you in advance. It was great to see the trailer. Very sensationalist, but that's what's needed now, I think.

 

[Juicy mango]

A lot of us here were thinking that the buying a school thing couldn't possibly be true because of the cost,
but it's starting to look like "someone" may have put the idea in her head that it might be possible, and at less cost than she would have thought.

Well AH could have played the I have connections all over card. As In I know someone who knows someone selling this place that would be perfect for a little school or even a daycare? Which would be way smaller than a school. And potentially he marketed it as a bargain?

Just thinking

 

[brjakj]

Will someone post a summary of the TV special for us non-Australians? Thank you in advance. It was great to see the trailer. Very sensationalist, but that's what's needed now, I think.

They generally upload them to YouTube afterwards. Hopefully someone can post the link afterwards (I can try but may forget).

This is the link to the YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@7NEWSSpotlight

(Edited to provide link)

 

[MrsWattle]

So there was a "Bernard DuPont" on RSVP targeting women in Sydney in the early 2000.
He used a photo of a young handsome "model" french man to introduce the other profile.
Thousands of women online everyday looking for love.
I bet the info is still all in RSVP archives. The lady would need to login to her old account or RSVP could possibly search it.
The lady mentioned he used a younger photo.
This is potentially the tip of the iceberg.

 

[caitlincurious]

So there was a "Bernard DuPont" on RSVP targeting women in Sydney in the early 2000.
He used a photo of a young handsome "model" french man to introduce the other profile.
Thousands of women online everyday looking for love.
I bet the info is still all in RSVP archives. The lady would need to login to her old account or RSVP could possibly search it.
The lady mentioned he used a younger photo.
This is potentially the tip of the iceberg.

I wonder how many women he managed to scam online? There was little awareness of internet scams back then.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Wayback Machine RSVP

Wayback Machine

web.archive.org

Page captures start in 1997. I think you need to have an account to see.

 

[caitlincurious]

Wayback Machine RSVP

Wayback Machine

web.archive.org

Page captures start in 1997. I think you need to have an account to see.

We don’t have the name of his original profile though - she said that RB contacted her under the name Bernard DuPont by other means, didn’t she?

 

[Eyespywithmylittleeye]

I can hear a very slight accent with whoever is speaking on camera.

Monique ??

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Sounds like whoever it was on RSVP used bait and switch tactics

 

[MrsWattle]

We don’t have the name of his original profile though - she said that RB contacted her under the name Bernard DuPont by other means, didn’t she?

Yes. The Lady might need to go through the Wayback machine and find the french male profile she said was always there/active.

 

[MrsWattle]

Sounds like whoever it was on RSVP used bait and switch tactics

Yes. Multiple profiles could have been set up to catch women online all leading back to one scammer.