Excellent insight — like he buying the ticket in the new name to impress MB with a BIG romantic gesture… surprise Florabella (pet-name) we are getting married!! But in reality, designed to make her disappear.
Perhaps yes. I don't see MB, by what I have read about her, as the type of person that would change her name to such an unusual one of her own accord but can see someone else coercing her to because of buying an airline ticket in that name (FNMR). Florabella was perhaps a pet name he used for her as you pointed out. If she had married RB believing him to be FR then she would become Marion Remakel and those two names are in her name change. Bringing forward the date of departure could have been a ploy by RB to throw a bit of urgency and panic with little time to think clearly about what is happening. Maybe she was embarrassed to explain to her family the name change and she could rectify that when she returned to Australia to just MR after the marriage so no need to make a big deal about it.
I’m pretty sure I booked international flights around the same time and you could book tickets without a passport. You only needed a passport once you got to the airport.
Perhaps one benefit would be that members of a closed group can be more easily monitored? We know 'involved parties' often like to keep an eye on case developments. Theoretically, investigators could check if any member locations match Clark Hunter's location, for example. Or, if any of the witnesses who told police they weren't following the story are actually following the story.
<modsnip: not an approved source> He definitely used his female victims to carry out crimes. Eg JO was sent into the bookshop in Ballina to sell stamps while he hid around the back even though he knew the owner of the bookshop very well. GD-D was also used to deal with the coin dealer in Amsterdam after he had been marked as an “at risk” customer. Interestingly these women were just given individual tasks and they weren’t aware of how what they were being assigned to do fitted into the whole picture. So he was the mastermind and they were just pawns that he exploited.
Agree, surely if they had enough evidence, charges would already have been laid. On the positive side, a death certificate will unlock a lot of information that has been unavailable due to privacy laws, eg whether or not Marion filed a 96-97 tax return in Australia.The due date for that would have been 31 Oct 97. Also, there should be more detail from the optometrist visit in Grafton once the death cert is available.
That is correct, early 1990's I was with a friend who booked her trip to Europe with a Travel Agent without Passport I asked at the time she said she only had to produce her Passport at the Airport. I remember a time in 1990's you could travel interstate on a Bus or Plane and not produce ID. Same for Hotel if you paid cash, you could use any name friends of mine booked into a Motel (They were married and having a romantic weekend) for a Giggle/saucey game, for a bit of spark in their marriage they paid with cash under a assumed name.
Wonder if there was a school, near Burwash, UK, where RB used to live with wife, that he showed her and spun some lie about it being for sale. Or maybe it WAS for sale. There were a lot of smaller family run schools around UK in those days, now many bought by big “corporate” school groups.
She mentions the brochure for The Mead School in Tunbridge Wells in her first letter home within days of arriving in the UK. JMO but the school purchase was already on her mind. So many private schools was also mentioned by her.
I hope you’re right but I’m not convinced that he wouldn’t lie to his own children.
Lord Peter
