WEBVTT - The One Who Got Away

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<v Speaker 1>This is the case of Marion Barter, a mother teacher

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<v Speaker 1>friend missing for twenty five years.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I know something that she was going to vanish,

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<v Speaker 2>that's for sure.

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<v Speaker 1>The bizarre circumstances surrounding her disappearance.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not sure if it was intentional or there's something

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<v Speaker 2>more foul afoot.

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<v Speaker 3>If you could imagine a teacher coming straight from say

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<v Speaker 3>little house on the prairie to the eighties, that was

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<v Speaker 3>Marian Barter.

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<v Speaker 2>What I say, whether you find Marian Barter dead or alive,

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<v Speaker 2>I honestly believe somebody has that key piece of information.

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<v Speaker 1>And the relentless quest of a daughter to find her mum.

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<v Speaker 4>Something had happened, Something has happened to make her leave.

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<v Speaker 5>I am one hundred percent sure, one hundred percent sure

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<v Speaker 5>that somebody knows something.

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<v Speaker 1>The lady vanishes, Episode forty six. I'm Alison Sandy and.

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<v Speaker 6>I'm Brian Seymour. Back in twenty nineteen, Sally Leyden and

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<v Speaker 6>I went to Luxembourg hoping to track down Fernande Remachel,

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<v Speaker 6>the man who placed the personal ad in nineteen ninety four.

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<v Speaker 6>At the time, we had no idea his identity had

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<v Speaker 6>been stolen and used by Rick Bloom. We door knocked

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<v Speaker 6>every home belonging to relatives of Fernande Remichel, including his

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<v Speaker 6>ex wife Monique Cornelius.

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<v Speaker 7>Monique Cornelius, this is Fernandra Remckel's first wife. We are

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<v Speaker 7>knocking on the door, see ancient home and b if

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<v Speaker 7>she knows anything about Marion, alright here we go, all

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<v Speaker 7>right on him.

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<v Speaker 6>I also recruited the editor of the Luxembourg Word newspaper,

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<v Speaker 6>Tom Rudell, to help our cause, and we were in

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<v Speaker 6>their newsroom when we tried calling Monique.

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<v Speaker 3>Joh Mayem I saw monic Colins.

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<v Speaker 6>Hello, Monique, is this Monique?

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<v Speaker 1>Hello.

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<v Speaker 6>My name's Brian. I'm a journalist from Australia. Since twenty nineteen,

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<v Speaker 6>we have stayed in touch with Monique, who spoke with

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<v Speaker 6>detectives and gave written evidence to the coroner that she

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<v Speaker 6>had a short sexual relationship with Rick Bloom or Frederic

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<v Speaker 6>de Hedeveri as she knew him in the early nineteen

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<v Speaker 6>eighties in Luxembourg. He told her he was a special

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<v Speaker 6>agent at the British Embassy, lied about his wife and

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<v Speaker 6>child only David was born at that time, and urged

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<v Speaker 6>her to sail away with him to start a new life.

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<v Speaker 8>I love you, Monique.

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<v Speaker 6>He also wrote her bizarre graphic love letters every moment, Yet,

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<v Speaker 6>when questioned about them by counsel assisting the coroner Adam Casselden,

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<v Speaker 6>mister Bloom still denied his relationship with Monique.

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<v Speaker 8>Do you still maintain that you did not have any

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<v Speaker 8>sexual relationship with Monique Cornelius?

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<v Speaker 3>He ay?

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<v Speaker 8>Do may I continue? I am crazy and I scream

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<v Speaker 8>I have made it. Oh, you beautiful bastards, I have

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<v Speaker 8>made it, Monique. I am crazy because you are the

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<v Speaker 8>heaven I turned to after every storm. Monique, I am

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<v Speaker 8>crazy and I have to tell you one more way,

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<v Speaker 8>and I know that you accept the compliment. It is

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<v Speaker 8>Australian and so explicit of our wild nature. But never mind, Monique,

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<v Speaker 8>You're a song in a man's testicles. Do you still

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<v Speaker 8>maintain that you did not have any sexual relationship?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes?

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<v Speaker 6>Monique ended the relationship and has remained in fear of

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<v Speaker 6>Rick ever since. Now we can share with you.

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<v Speaker 1>Why Hi, Monique, It's Alison Sandy from the Lady Vanishes.

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<v Speaker 1>How are you.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay?

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<v Speaker 6>Alison Sandy recently spoke with Monique, who agreed to go

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<v Speaker 6>on the record with this stunning information.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, that's the podcast. I was only ringing because I

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<v Speaker 1>just thought you might have seen all the publicity recently

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<v Speaker 1>in Belgium and Luxembourg, with all these other people speaking out.

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<v Speaker 2>Give me a moment. I am not thinking already engled.

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<v Speaker 1>I just wanted to know if you'd read any of

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<v Speaker 1>the articles about other women who have been taken in.

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<v Speaker 2>Them.

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<v Speaker 1>I just wanted to thank you because your testimony, even

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<v Speaker 1>though you didn't appear in person, just what you provided

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<v Speaker 1>in your letters and your correspondence that you'd received from

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<v Speaker 1>him was just so important. And you are helping others.

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<v Speaker 2>Of course, madam, of course I that's why I did it,

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<v Speaker 2>that no other women will be He is just someone very,

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<v Speaker 2>very very dangerous. You know that also why I am

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<v Speaker 2>I'm working together with our Luxembourgish police, the highest one

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<v Speaker 2>we have here in luxembook, because I was afraid he

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<v Speaker 2>would come and make and also is capable of anything.

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<v Speaker 2>It's capable of anything, even killing.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you seem to know him more than anyone else

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<v Speaker 1>that we've spoken to.

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<v Speaker 2>I know him. I know him, oh yes, I know

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<v Speaker 2>him very good, with his character, his reactions, and that's

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<v Speaker 2>why I say is a very for a woman, especially

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<v Speaker 2>for a woman. He is a very very dangerous man,

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<v Speaker 2>very dangerous, very dangerous. I can't I can't tell you.

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<v Speaker 1>That he seemed to actually love you, which was bizarre because.

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<v Speaker 2>He no, he lost money, nothing else, and for money,

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<v Speaker 2>he has nothing but a little if he had little

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<v Speaker 2>tension or how do you call it. He gets from

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<v Speaker 2>the state because he participated in the war and with

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<v Speaker 2>Australia with I don't know, in Asia somewhere, and his

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<v Speaker 2>legs are and not good, not good for that, and

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<v Speaker 2>therefore he gets from the Australian state. I think so,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know it. I think so a little. That's

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<v Speaker 2>why he's living with his wife. Yeah. I immediately left

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<v Speaker 2>him when I thought that he had a wife. No, no, no, no, no,

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't know he was a fund in the in

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<v Speaker 2>the and I didn't leave anything anymore.

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<v Speaker 1>While I was taking in everything when he had to say,

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<v Speaker 1>I was still in shock that she'd finally decided to

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<v Speaker 1>open up to me, and I was just waiting for

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<v Speaker 1>her to pause long enough so I could return to

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<v Speaker 1>the bombshell information she told me only moments earlier. What

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<v Speaker 1>makes you think he's capable of killing?

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<v Speaker 2>He called me? But I don't know who is who

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<v Speaker 2>he has kids in the one day he told me, look,

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<v Speaker 2>this can't have already killed. And he showed me his

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<v Speaker 2>son like that, killing with hands only, that you must

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<v Speaker 2>be a real killer.

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<v Speaker 1>Why did he tell you that?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. He caught me very very muchy he

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<v Speaker 2>did not manipulect me. I thought his manipulation. I thought

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<v Speaker 2>he lied or manipulcted. There a moments in life, even

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<v Speaker 2>if he was only a haunt where the past makes

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<v Speaker 2>you open the mouth, if you thing of the past,

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<v Speaker 2>it wasn't an a weak moment for him.

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<v Speaker 1>I know you have provided letters and in the past

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<v Speaker 1>you didn't necessarily want to be part like just talk

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<v Speaker 1>at the inquest, do you think, because the inquest is

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<v Speaker 1>still going to try to get him in jail, because

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<v Speaker 1>he's not quite now, but he's three. He's very feeble.

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<v Speaker 2>It's very promotion. He is also he is a master

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<v Speaker 2>of the manipulation. He never, never, never says the truth,

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<v Speaker 2>perhaps in a moment of weakness or but he manipulates everybody, everybody.

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<v Speaker 2>He tells story story, story stories. Therefore, I say don't

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<v Speaker 2>let him out anymore. That for the sake of other women,

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<v Speaker 2>that they don't live the same destiny to me. He

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<v Speaker 2>never did cut something, never never.

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<v Speaker 1>Never, Here many recalls when she discovered was married with children.

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<v Speaker 2>He always was good about me. But when I knew

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<v Speaker 2>we went to the a roper where the aeroplanes landing

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<v Speaker 2>and departing. What do you call that? How do you airport?

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<v Speaker 1>Yes?

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<v Speaker 2>He always went to the airport for phoning in Australia

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<v Speaker 2>to someone who is now I know that it was

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<v Speaker 2>his wife. And just like a haz, I went in

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<v Speaker 2>the telephone cabin just besides his so I could hear

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<v Speaker 2>all the phone what he was talking with that person.

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<v Speaker 2>And he talked about Daisy donkey child and he talked

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<v Speaker 2>to a woman and I heard that they were very

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<v Speaker 2>close telecross. And after the phone called here, we went

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<v Speaker 2>to drink or in a coffee and I asked him, Hey,

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<v Speaker 2>who's the lady you talked about your child? A child?

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<v Speaker 2>Do you have a child? Is that from me? I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't know it, He hadn't told me, And yeah, you

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<v Speaker 2>can have a child. I was always on my own.

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<v Speaker 2>That was my salvation. I had my house, I had

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<v Speaker 2>my job, I had my money. I didn't depend on

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<v Speaker 2>him on nothing. If I didn't want to see him.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't. I told him no, no, leave me alone.

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<v Speaker 2>And we we were not intimate with their shee, we

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<v Speaker 2>were intimated. But I was free. I was always a

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<v Speaker 2>free woman. And then did what I decided, not what

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<v Speaker 2>he caused me, and that was my salvation. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>he knows very good to speak, and she spoke. He

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<v Speaker 2>is very good in story telling, in story tealist, and

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<v Speaker 2>that I know. He told me he was a secret

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<v Speaker 2>agent of the English embassy in Luxemburger. I believe, and

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<v Speaker 2>I studied. I am not fallen on my head. I

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<v Speaker 2>am more. I cannot say that a touch that I

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<v Speaker 2>am very intelligent, but I am not idiot. But that

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<v Speaker 2>is a fact. And I did my life also alone.

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<v Speaker 2>I have organized and you know, I'm free woman. And

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<v Speaker 2>that was my salvation, or you know, Megan, it was

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<v Speaker 2>not easy to get trait of him in my in

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<v Speaker 2>my brain. You know, he is a personality you you

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<v Speaker 2>not meet in every corner of the road. He is

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<v Speaker 2>focused on getting money, and therefore he is playing with

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<v Speaker 2>the emotions of women. And that I is so disgusting

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<v Speaker 2>of that that it's the last thing that I can

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<v Speaker 2>understand from a man, that he is looking from the

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<v Speaker 2>head to the truth. But that is only I don't

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<v Speaker 2>I don't even know if he knows the who he is.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think so he had something in his sad.

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<v Speaker 2>It's so uppen. Never seen a man like that. Oh no, no, no, no,

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<v Speaker 2>But I had in the beginning. I had trusted him too.

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<v Speaker 2>He is a very good speaker. He knows the emotion

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<v Speaker 2>of women. And I was not ridgy enough for you know,

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<v Speaker 2>And I was young. I was young when forty years

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<v Speaker 2>ago I had thirty thirty five years now and I

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<v Speaker 2>was alone. I was divorcing for me. He was interesting.

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<v Speaker 1>He takes advantage of well, I guess women who are

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<v Speaker 1>divorcing or widows. It seems to be his mo o.

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<v Speaker 1>But you were the one who got away. Did he

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<v Speaker 1>ever try to take money?

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<v Speaker 9>Oh?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, I got away. I got away. But because I

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<v Speaker 2>was always always a free woman, My free will was

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<v Speaker 2>it is my character. I don't let someone else think

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<v Speaker 2>for me. I think for me and nobody else, fellow,

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<v Speaker 2>And that's that's what saved me. And I won't when

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<v Speaker 2>I am read here the story of missus Warner, I

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<v Speaker 2>think of the lady who has two children. I your butter.

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<v Speaker 2>It's better. It's better Marion, Marion will Well a sister,

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<v Speaker 2>she had money. Yeah, women, he he manipulates until they

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<v Speaker 2>are depending on him and they are not crazy, are

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<v Speaker 2>married or or have no own job, no own house,

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<v Speaker 2>or or the are older. Also also, I was young.

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<v Speaker 2>I was thirty and thirty five when I knew him,

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<v Speaker 2>I was strong. If I didn't, I didn't, I can't understand.

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<v Speaker 2>But Marion, I can understand her very very good because

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<v Speaker 2>he is a master of manipulation and she only is

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<v Speaker 2>playing with emotions. And if you are playing with the

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<v Speaker 2>emotions of an other old you you have very very

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<v Speaker 2>very possibilities to enslave him, you know the person. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>he has he can do that, he can manage that.

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<v Speaker 2>My god, my god.

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<v Speaker 1>I just want to say, you are extraordinary, Monique, and

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<v Speaker 1>you are an inspiration to all of us that you

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<v Speaker 1>have the courage to speak out about him.

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<v Speaker 2>And I am Oh, yes, I have the courage. I

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<v Speaker 2>have it. That is not a courage, that is a

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<v Speaker 2>proud proud to say. You cannot do that with everybody.

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<v Speaker 1>I tell Monique the inquest isn't over yet and ask

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<v Speaker 1>if she reconsider her decision not to appear.

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<v Speaker 2>I cannot tell more, because forty years is a very

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<v Speaker 2>long time. And excuse me, madam, but I speak to

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<v Speaker 2>the police of mute those words. I have written emails

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<v Speaker 2>and ima image to us. They know everything I can say,

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<v Speaker 2>but I cannot faith and to out for that. And

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<v Speaker 2>I'm living alone here and in peace. I have forgotten

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<v Speaker 2>this man. I have forgotten it for me. He is

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<v Speaker 2>just dirt. He is dirt. He doesn't he doesn't have

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<v Speaker 2>the right to live. He has taken so many he's part.

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<v Speaker 2>He's fundamentally that. Don't touch him, you will burn your hands.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't say you and every rooman should be very afraid.

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<v Speaker 2>He should be in a poison for the rest of

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<v Speaker 2>his life. I hope so, I hope so. I hope

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<v Speaker 2>so even in the great in the tomb, when he

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<v Speaker 2>is buried, he will try to manipulate to get out

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<v Speaker 2>of there. I tell you, in life, when he opened

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<v Speaker 2>the mouth, that is a lie, that its manipulation. He

0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:11.320
<v Speaker 2>doesn't forget anything. I don't know what he has already done.

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<v Speaker 2>But nothing good, nothing good. No, I hope you can

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<v Speaker 2>understand me. He's out of my mind. He cannot touch

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<v Speaker 2>me anymore, he cannot hurt me anymore. For me, he

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<v Speaker 2>is dirt, just dirt you take and puts and put

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<v Speaker 2>anywhere where he can. He cannover get back anymore. He's

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<v Speaker 2>a bad man. Why he is so, He can tell

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<v Speaker 2>you thousands, thousands arguments why he has become like that,

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<v Speaker 2>And it tells the story of the jewels in the

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<v Speaker 2>Nazy time. He's parents have been burnt, his parents that

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<v Speaker 2>burnt in that scamps of the Nazi system. Nothing is true.

0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:20.440
<v Speaker 2>Everything he says, everything, every word, every breath is many pullation.

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<v Speaker 2>The coronal must be very strong and not be losing him.

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<v Speaker 2>He can cry from emotion. He can please theater. He

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<v Speaker 2>can You don't know what what your talenty is in

0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:42.720
<v Speaker 2>manipulation and for a good woman, a woman that is

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<v Speaker 2>vulnerable and innocent, for him that is not bringing nothing,

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<v Speaker 2>just money, money, money, money. He has no regrets. He

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<v Speaker 2>must have money, haven't He hasn't learned anything. He knows

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<v Speaker 2>how to manipulate with it, with his body, with his

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<v Speaker 2>bring with his money money money. You cannot imagine so profoundly.

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<v Speaker 2>And he can speak like an angel or Daville, depends

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<v Speaker 2>on the situation. He has a very big talent to maniput.

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<v Speaker 2>It never seen that in all my whole life, never

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<v Speaker 2>but profoundly, profoundly back.

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<v Speaker 1>He stole your husband's identity too. That was one of

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<v Speaker 1>the many alias.

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<v Speaker 10>I only know that I know that well.

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<v Speaker 2>We were not together anymore, we were separated, divorced.

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<v Speaker 1>But was it surprising to you that when you learned

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<v Speaker 1>that he'd stolen your ex husband's identity.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's what I didn't. At a certain moment, I

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<v Speaker 2>I thought that there's something wrong with this man. We

0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:15.800
<v Speaker 2>were in divorce, but we spoke. I spoke with my

0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:20.560
<v Speaker 2>husband and I said, I know there's something for someone

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<v Speaker 2>I don't I have. I don't believe him so many

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<v Speaker 2>I would like you to. I show you where he

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<v Speaker 2>is living, and to go to him and tell him something,

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<v Speaker 2>get in contact with him. And my husband did that

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<v Speaker 2>from it. He was a psychology and that's why he

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<v Speaker 2>said to him, imagine something saying that I have I

0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.600
<v Speaker 2>have sent you to him for this or all that.

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<v Speaker 2>And my husband and tech that and the other one

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<v Speaker 2>had to ary his dole at such visit his identity card.

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<v Speaker 1>This was a bit confusing, but it sounds like Fernande

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<v Speaker 1>and Rick Blum did meet each other at least once.

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<v Speaker 1>We thought that fand was actually the one with Marion.

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<v Speaker 1>We mistook him for Frederick to Hellaberry and we're very sorry.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, of course, but they're Fredavari shows his real character.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, there is a man's life, a woman's life

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<v Speaker 2>count nothing. They are in this world just to give

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<v Speaker 2>him money. Yes, they're nothing. No person counts. And she

0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:59.800
<v Speaker 2>can speak like a man who got sugar, a very

0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:06.240
<v Speaker 2>set very He can change his personality perfectly from one

0:24:06.400 --> 0:24:08.120
<v Speaker 2>woman to the other.

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<v Speaker 1>My last question because I don't want to hold you

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<v Speaker 1>up anymore because you have been amazing. It's so helpful,

0:24:15.280 --> 0:24:20.280
<v Speaker 1>and this would get justice for all his victims, including you,

0:24:20.440 --> 0:24:22.760
<v Speaker 1>because you were his victim. Even though you didn't give

0:24:22.840 --> 0:24:25.840
<v Speaker 1>him money. He tried to manipulate you and he's affected.

0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:32.960
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, of course I know that now, and I

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<v Speaker 2>had a very long time to understand his character and

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<v Speaker 2>to be sure of what. But no, I am so

0:24:42.560 --> 0:24:46.520
<v Speaker 2>sure of what I say. I feel it. I see

0:24:46.560 --> 0:24:50.760
<v Speaker 2>it now. Even with the little brain I have, I

0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:55.159
<v Speaker 2>can analyze it. When he opens the mouse, I know

0:24:55.280 --> 0:24:59.600
<v Speaker 2>what she without speaking. I know what the rivided directions

0:24:59.840 --> 0:25:03.359
<v Speaker 2>is going. Actually I can't feel it. I can't feel it.

0:25:03.560 --> 0:25:07.520
<v Speaker 2>In the end, I could feel it and I I

0:25:07.800 --> 0:25:17.000
<v Speaker 2>was this dastic, this pastic, and that's why I went

0:25:17.080 --> 0:25:20.520
<v Speaker 2>to our police in Luxembourg and I said, I don't

0:25:20.720 --> 0:25:25.280
<v Speaker 2>know exactly what she is doing, but I could speak,

0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:31.040
<v Speaker 2>but I know nothing of concrete. You know that he

0:25:31.240 --> 0:25:36.879
<v Speaker 2>has done. I don't know something some bad things concrete.

0:25:37.160 --> 0:25:41.280
<v Speaker 2>If I've not seen something that I could say he

0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:44.320
<v Speaker 2>stole that or that or that.

0:25:44.520 --> 0:25:48.639
<v Speaker 1>I never you have done so much in just talking

0:25:48.680 --> 0:25:52.040
<v Speaker 1>to me about this. And look you're right, no more,

0:25:52.400 --> 0:25:55.280
<v Speaker 1>no more. You have done enough. You have spoken enough

0:25:55.359 --> 0:25:55.639
<v Speaker 1>about that.

0:25:56.440 --> 0:25:59.879
<v Speaker 2>That is what I don't do. Oh could fire my

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<v Speaker 2>mind with it because I'm in freedom and in peace

0:26:04.960 --> 0:26:09.639
<v Speaker 2>with my self, and I know not only missed my brain,

0:26:10.160 --> 0:26:15.200
<v Speaker 2>but with my whole body. Maybe I found a body

0:26:15.720 --> 0:26:19.200
<v Speaker 2>in my stomach, in my heart, in my head, everywhere.

0:26:19.800 --> 0:26:25.680
<v Speaker 2>I know that that man isn't worth to breathe in

0:26:25.880 --> 0:26:29.800
<v Speaker 2>this world. That I can't get. And that's no hate.

0:26:30.840 --> 0:26:36.040
<v Speaker 2>That is just because yeah, and I am sure that

0:26:36.280 --> 0:26:40.800
<v Speaker 2>he has done. He has it doesn't work, he earns

0:26:40.960 --> 0:26:47.880
<v Speaker 2>no money, He's still from everybody. But don't let him

0:26:48.000 --> 0:26:53.080
<v Speaker 2>out of prison. He is very capable of care.

0:26:53.600 --> 0:26:54.000
<v Speaker 4>I know it.

0:26:54.520 --> 0:26:59.160
<v Speaker 5>I know it's really hard for you very hard, very hard.

0:26:59.800 --> 0:27:04.920
<v Speaker 2>But now I have found my freedom. If I had

0:27:05.040 --> 0:27:13.359
<v Speaker 2>not opened my mouth, I would never have discovered the truth.

0:27:14.440 --> 0:27:17.720
<v Speaker 2>That was well, the best thing that could happen to

0:27:17.880 --> 0:27:29.200
<v Speaker 2>me was this communication with the police detective unsold Tommy Sito. Yes,

0:27:29.800 --> 0:27:33.920
<v Speaker 2>that was the beast. I have psychologue chiply and in

0:27:34.440 --> 0:27:38.080
<v Speaker 2>my brain and in my heart and everywhere. I had

0:27:38.280 --> 0:27:43.000
<v Speaker 2>a chance to get out of that without any harm.

0:27:44.000 --> 0:27:48.040
<v Speaker 2>And I know I can't tell you why, because I

0:27:49.359 --> 0:27:53.400
<v Speaker 2>could not give him millions have I worked for my job.

0:27:53.760 --> 0:27:57.560
<v Speaker 2>In my job, I had a good life, but not

0:27:59.680 --> 0:28:07.159
<v Speaker 2>enough to satisfire that gangster. No. I think he was.

0:28:07.320 --> 0:28:10.560
<v Speaker 2>He loved me a little bit. I think so, But

0:28:11.480 --> 0:28:17.080
<v Speaker 2>that's why I did not. I always said I have

0:28:17.240 --> 0:28:21.600
<v Speaker 2>a brain, and I think for myself. I don't let

0:28:21.760 --> 0:28:26.639
<v Speaker 2>you think for me. Never, never I told him that.

0:28:28.119 --> 0:28:31.000
<v Speaker 1>Well, I just want you to know that, you know

0:28:31.520 --> 0:28:32.520
<v Speaker 1>it's speaking to me.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I have done and I want my peace to madam.

0:28:37.000 --> 0:28:40.520
<v Speaker 2>I want my peace. I have close to that. I

0:28:41.000 --> 0:28:45.040
<v Speaker 2>have done the most I could do, but now I

0:28:45.200 --> 0:28:47.520
<v Speaker 2>want to be free of it. I cannot tell you

0:28:47.760 --> 0:28:49.200
<v Speaker 2>any thing more.

0:28:49.480 --> 0:28:51.920
<v Speaker 1>There have been so many other ladies who have spoken

0:28:51.960 --> 0:28:56.320
<v Speaker 1>out like you. There's Janet Oldenburg and Elaine in Belgium

0:28:56.720 --> 0:28:59.080
<v Speaker 1>and his cousin, and that is very good.

0:28:59.520 --> 0:29:04.720
<v Speaker 2>And a woman, I think that you can understand every work.

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<v Speaker 2>I tell you. That's the truth, madam, that's the truth.

0:29:09.320 --> 0:29:13.160
<v Speaker 2>I think if we women we must stick stick together,

0:29:14.000 --> 0:29:17.600
<v Speaker 2>we must stick together. We are very strong. We are

0:29:17.680 --> 0:29:21.479
<v Speaker 2>the strong because men. If we stick together, we are

0:29:21.560 --> 0:29:26.480
<v Speaker 2>more tangical, we are more intelligent. We can see much

0:29:26.600 --> 0:29:34.640
<v Speaker 2>more than a man who has one time only money, money, money, money.

0:29:35.160 --> 0:29:38.320
<v Speaker 2>I know him, madam, I know what he's capable. That's

0:29:38.440 --> 0:29:40.600
<v Speaker 2>why I want to close it.

0:29:40.920 --> 0:29:43.240
<v Speaker 1>I then go on to tell me about this podcast

0:29:43.520 --> 0:29:46.880
<v Speaker 1>and how now the whole world knows about with Bloom

0:29:47.360 --> 0:29:48.640
<v Speaker 1>and what he's done.

0:29:49.480 --> 0:29:52.240
<v Speaker 2>That is very good. And if one day you come

0:29:52.320 --> 0:29:56.480
<v Speaker 2>to Luxemburg, you will enjoy it. Come here, Come here.

0:29:57.680 --> 0:30:02.320
<v Speaker 2>I have an apartment over me that's empty. You can

0:30:02.440 --> 0:30:06.160
<v Speaker 2>live at my house in all the first stage FLA

0:30:07.160 --> 0:30:10.640
<v Speaker 2>for the one week, two weeks. I will surely in the.

0:30:10.680 --> 0:30:13.880
<v Speaker 1>Place that she was, Like Marion, Monique was a teacher,

0:30:14.240 --> 0:30:18.720
<v Speaker 1>but she specializes in languages, which explains why her English

0:30:19.040 --> 0:30:19.760
<v Speaker 1>is so good.

0:30:20.040 --> 0:30:23.760
<v Speaker 2>I speak a much better French than English because I

0:30:23.880 --> 0:30:29.480
<v Speaker 2>have no exercised so well so, but lives me in

0:30:29.680 --> 0:30:33.840
<v Speaker 2>the dark as good as you can. I am now

0:30:34.640 --> 0:30:38.560
<v Speaker 2>an old lady and I want to get him out

0:30:38.720 --> 0:30:41.680
<v Speaker 2>of my mind. That's what I told him. I never

0:30:41.840 --> 0:30:46.360
<v Speaker 2>had told toward journalist, never, and I had many calls

0:30:46.480 --> 0:30:50.920
<v Speaker 2>for it broadcast stations. I never told a single word,

0:30:51.800 --> 0:30:57.480
<v Speaker 2>but now I totally because I'm strong. I have here

0:30:57.920 --> 0:31:02.120
<v Speaker 2>my police in Luxembourg, and I have the police in Australia.

0:31:02.680 --> 0:31:06.160
<v Speaker 2>If something happened to me, it was him.

0:31:07.840 --> 0:31:10.440
<v Speaker 1>Nothing will happen to him, Manique, mark my words. I

0:31:10.600 --> 0:31:13.280
<v Speaker 1>know this because I know Blum will never leave the country.

0:31:13.600 --> 0:31:15.800
<v Speaker 1>If he does, he won't be able to get back in.

0:31:16.480 --> 0:31:17.560
<v Speaker 1>More on that later.

0:31:17.960 --> 0:31:24.360
<v Speaker 2>You are in a treasure to stick with you was

0:31:25.280 --> 0:31:30.960
<v Speaker 2>also not a pleasure. That was a good recapitulation. I

0:31:31.200 --> 0:31:38.040
<v Speaker 2>want him to be not on the surface of this work.

0:31:39.160 --> 0:31:43.840
<v Speaker 2>He must be. Just get out. He's in dag as

0:31:44.000 --> 0:31:47.120
<v Speaker 2>long as he rees believe me.

0:31:47.480 --> 0:31:50.920
<v Speaker 1>Thank you, Monique, Thank you to a listen together.

0:31:51.080 --> 0:31:51.600
<v Speaker 2>Is strong.

0:31:55.680 --> 0:31:57.840
<v Speaker 1>I tried to call with Blum so I could put

0:31:57.880 --> 0:32:01.240
<v Speaker 1>to him the allegations Manique made again, but got his

0:32:01.360 --> 0:32:06.480
<v Speaker 1>answering machine message, so I text him this instead. Hello, Rick,

0:32:06.600 --> 0:32:10.280
<v Speaker 1>it's Alison Sandy from The Lady Vanish's podcast. I've undertaken

0:32:10.400 --> 0:32:13.640
<v Speaker 1>a long interview with Manique Cornelius. She says, you told

0:32:13.680 --> 0:32:16.160
<v Speaker 1>her when you were together that you had killed a person,

0:32:16.480 --> 0:32:19.400
<v Speaker 1>and you've done so with your own hands. I want

0:32:19.440 --> 0:32:21.800
<v Speaker 1>to give you the rite of reply. Is this true?

0:32:22.120 --> 0:32:24.760
<v Speaker 1>If not, why did you say that to her? This

0:32:24.880 --> 0:32:27.160
<v Speaker 1>will be on the next episode of the podcast being

0:32:27.240 --> 0:32:29.800
<v Speaker 1>released on Monday, So if you would like to respond,

0:32:30.000 --> 0:32:37.000
<v Speaker 1>please let me know before then. Kind regards Allison. Unsurprisingly,

0:32:37.400 --> 0:32:44.520
<v Speaker 1>I've heard nothing back. Not long before I spoke to Monique,

0:32:44.720 --> 0:32:47.880
<v Speaker 1>Brian caught up with blums a strange daughter, Evelyn Reed.

0:32:48.320 --> 0:32:51.200
<v Speaker 1>She is the daughter of Blum's third wife, Alona read

0:32:51.440 --> 0:32:54.720
<v Speaker 1>Nie Kinsel when he went by the name of Willie Wooters.

0:32:56.960 --> 0:32:59.760
<v Speaker 1>You may remember us telling you in an earlier episode

0:33:00.080 --> 0:33:03.360
<v Speaker 1>that Alona was found slumped dead over the steering wheel

0:33:03.400 --> 0:33:06.920
<v Speaker 1>of her car in nineteen seventy seven. There was no accident.

0:33:07.240 --> 0:33:10.080
<v Speaker 1>She did not crash her car. She simply died at

0:33:10.120 --> 0:33:13.640
<v Speaker 1>the will with the car intact on the roadside. It's

0:33:13.680 --> 0:33:16.560
<v Speaker 1>still unknown what precisely killed her, but it was said

0:33:16.680 --> 0:33:20.360
<v Speaker 1>it had something to do with her heart. She was

0:33:20.640 --> 0:33:26.760
<v Speaker 1>just thirty one. Evelyn was only seven years old at

0:33:26.800 --> 0:33:27.200
<v Speaker 1>the time.

0:33:30.200 --> 0:33:32.480
<v Speaker 6>We have in the past trying to reach out to

0:33:32.560 --> 0:33:36.880
<v Speaker 6>Evelyn without success. In fact, with the police investigation going on,

0:33:37.120 --> 0:33:40.880
<v Speaker 6>we were advised to stay clear. It has only been

0:33:40.920 --> 0:33:43.760
<v Speaker 6>in recent times since she spoke with a journalist from

0:33:43.840 --> 0:33:47.239
<v Speaker 6>the Australian newspaper that she has also responded to us.

0:33:48.000 --> 0:33:51.760
<v Speaker 6>Now in her fifties, we found a friendly, kind and

0:33:51.920 --> 0:33:57.880
<v Speaker 6>forthright person, but one who is understandably guarded. Evelyn did

0:33:57.960 --> 0:34:01.160
<v Speaker 6>not want her conversation with me recorded and she does

0:34:01.240 --> 0:34:03.120
<v Speaker 6>not want her life to become the center of a

0:34:03.240 --> 0:34:07.240
<v Speaker 6>media frenzy because the idea of it distresses her. But

0:34:07.440 --> 0:34:10.240
<v Speaker 6>she has told me a number of shocking things about

0:34:10.320 --> 0:34:15.920
<v Speaker 6>her past and things that she knows because he was

0:34:15.960 --> 0:34:20.080
<v Speaker 6>absent throughout her childhood. When Evelyn was an adult, she

0:34:20.280 --> 0:34:23.200
<v Speaker 6>reached out to Rick Bloom on a couple of occasions

0:34:23.640 --> 0:34:26.920
<v Speaker 6>to try to find a connection and heal old wounds.

0:34:28.280 --> 0:34:31.280
<v Speaker 6>While he is on her birth certificate as Willie Wooters.

0:34:31.840 --> 0:34:35.000
<v Speaker 6>She found him through the Belgian consulate by the name

0:34:35.320 --> 0:34:39.600
<v Speaker 6>Frederic de Heeverari. Now Rick Bloom told the inquest that

0:34:39.719 --> 0:34:42.920
<v Speaker 6>he'd only ever seen Evelyn once when she was a newborn.

0:34:43.719 --> 0:34:47.640
<v Speaker 6>According to Evelyn, that is a lie. After meeting with

0:34:47.800 --> 0:34:51.120
<v Speaker 6>him many years ago, she was left feeling traumatized by

0:34:51.200 --> 0:34:57.040
<v Speaker 6>his stories of torture, death and poisoning. He spoke about

0:34:57.040 --> 0:35:01.320
<v Speaker 6>her mother, Ilona in a derogatory way, and she said

0:35:01.520 --> 0:35:05.879
<v Speaker 6>he described ways to poison people. So when he gave

0:35:05.960 --> 0:35:08.680
<v Speaker 6>her a bottle of champagne after one of their meetings,

0:35:09.440 --> 0:35:12.360
<v Speaker 6>she took it straight to the police, fearing that he

0:35:12.480 --> 0:35:16.120
<v Speaker 6>was trying to use it to poison her. She told

0:35:16.160 --> 0:35:18.360
<v Speaker 6>me that she was made to feel like she was

0:35:18.480 --> 0:35:22.960
<v Speaker 6>going crazy, that after spending a life feeling abandoned by

0:35:23.040 --> 0:35:25.879
<v Speaker 6>anyone who was meant to show her love, she now

0:35:26.000 --> 0:35:29.080
<v Speaker 6>had this idea that perhaps her own father had just

0:35:29.239 --> 0:35:32.640
<v Speaker 6>tried to kill her. She said that her interaction with

0:35:32.760 --> 0:35:36.440
<v Speaker 6>Rick Bloom made her question her ability to interpret reality,

0:35:37.400 --> 0:35:40.200
<v Speaker 6>that it tipped her over the edge. She went into

0:35:40.239 --> 0:35:43.480
<v Speaker 6>some kind of catatonic shock and she wasn't able to

0:35:43.560 --> 0:35:48.120
<v Speaker 6>speak to people for some time. Other family members reportedly

0:35:48.200 --> 0:35:53.080
<v Speaker 6>recalled Evelyn's fears when she received the champagne. Her half brother,

0:35:53.400 --> 0:35:57.000
<v Speaker 6>who has chosen to remain anonymous, told the Australian newspaper

0:35:57.440 --> 0:36:00.839
<v Speaker 6>he remembered specifically when Rick Bloom entered his sister's life

0:36:01.360 --> 0:36:05.080
<v Speaker 6>and that she felt unsafe around him. He said she

0:36:05.239 --> 0:36:08.000
<v Speaker 6>felt that the foil around the top of the champagne

0:36:08.040 --> 0:36:12.440
<v Speaker 6>bottle had been moved and the cork tampered with. In

0:36:12.560 --> 0:36:16.120
<v Speaker 6>the same article, The Australian's National Crime editor, David Murray

0:36:16.360 --> 0:36:21.440
<v Speaker 6>quoted another relative, Marika Messereer, who remembered warning Evelyn to

0:36:21.600 --> 0:36:24.000
<v Speaker 6>keep her money safe when she first met up with

0:36:24.080 --> 0:36:28.440
<v Speaker 6>her father, describing Rick Bloom as a con man. Miss

0:36:28.560 --> 0:36:33.000
<v Speaker 6>Messire also recalled that Evelyn's mother, Ilona Kinzel, was only

0:36:33.160 --> 0:36:36.320
<v Speaker 6>nineteen when she fell in love with mister Bloom, but

0:36:36.640 --> 0:36:40.800
<v Speaker 6>Ilona's mother was so suspicious she hired a private detective

0:36:41.200 --> 0:36:45.640
<v Speaker 6>who found out that Rick was married with children. In fact,

0:36:45.800 --> 0:36:48.799
<v Speaker 6>Rick Bloom, or Willie Wooters as he was then, had

0:36:48.840 --> 0:36:54.320
<v Speaker 6>already been married twice. Against her mother's advice, Ilona continued

0:36:54.360 --> 0:36:59.520
<v Speaker 6>the relationship until it ultimately failed for reasons that are unclear.

0:37:00.640 --> 0:37:05.239
<v Speaker 6>Then Ilona left for Australia and met someone new, but

0:37:05.680 --> 0:37:10.880
<v Speaker 6>Rick Bloom followed her. At the coronial inquest, mister Bloom

0:37:10.960 --> 0:37:13.959
<v Speaker 6>told the court he and Miss Coinsell married in early

0:37:14.080 --> 0:37:17.960
<v Speaker 6>nineteen sixty nine before he came on holiday to Australia.

0:37:18.880 --> 0:37:22.279
<v Speaker 6>Records show they were married on May tenth, nineteen sixty nine,

0:37:22.320 --> 0:37:27.400
<v Speaker 6>in Brussels. Just days later, they both traveled separately to Australia.

0:37:27.880 --> 0:37:29.839
<v Speaker 6>As Rick Bloom explained, now.

0:37:30.160 --> 0:37:33.080
<v Speaker 3>Because I came to Australia in April, I think, and

0:37:33.520 --> 0:37:36.719
<v Speaker 3>I was married before coming. She arrived in Sydney on

0:37:36.760 --> 0:37:39.200
<v Speaker 3>a migrant visa because that's what she wanted to do.

0:37:40.040 --> 0:37:44.359
<v Speaker 3>And I arrived in per fornatrice visa at that point

0:37:44.400 --> 0:37:45.440
<v Speaker 3>in tame who are married.

0:37:45.800 --> 0:37:49.560
<v Speaker 6>Mister Bloom raised from Perth to Sydney to reconnect with Elona,

0:37:50.080 --> 0:37:53.600
<v Speaker 6>whom we suspect had left him, claiming he planned to

0:37:53.680 --> 0:37:56.440
<v Speaker 6>stay with her for a three month holiday, but you.

0:37:56.480 --> 0:37:59.800
<v Speaker 3>Way for the lady friend in brothers and the immigrated together,

0:38:00.840 --> 0:38:04.680
<v Speaker 3>except my wife was flun to Sidney whilst our girlfriend

0:38:04.800 --> 0:38:07.880
<v Speaker 3>came with a Greek ship. I staid with her for

0:38:08.000 --> 0:38:11.880
<v Speaker 3>the best part of two months, and then Ilona went

0:38:11.960 --> 0:38:14.640
<v Speaker 3>to Melbourne with another man and apparently she died in

0:38:14.719 --> 0:38:16.120
<v Speaker 3>a car accident or something like that.

0:38:21.760 --> 0:38:25.279
<v Speaker 6>Evelyn told me she feels an emotional disconnect with the

0:38:25.360 --> 0:38:30.719
<v Speaker 6>word dad and refuses to see him as that. What

0:38:30.880 --> 0:38:34.040
<v Speaker 6>I can confirm is that She wants police to take

0:38:34.120 --> 0:38:38.120
<v Speaker 6>her statement, and she hopes by speaking out that it

0:38:38.120 --> 0:38:43.320
<v Speaker 6>will help others, because there are others. Evelyn is convinced

0:38:43.400 --> 0:38:46.680
<v Speaker 6>of that, and at least one of them is here

0:38:46.800 --> 0:38:51.840
<v Speaker 6>in Australia in Melbourne. She told me that one of

0:38:51.920 --> 0:38:55.160
<v Speaker 6>the last times she saw Rick Bloom, he had her

0:38:55.239 --> 0:38:58.480
<v Speaker 6>pick him up in her car. She remembers him laughing

0:38:58.520 --> 0:39:01.720
<v Speaker 6>about someone giving him for forty or fifty thousand dollars

0:39:02.280 --> 0:39:05.160
<v Speaker 6>when all they had was his mobile phone number, which

0:39:05.200 --> 0:39:12.279
<v Speaker 6>he could easily change. Evelyn says the very last time

0:39:12.440 --> 0:39:15.000
<v Speaker 6>she saw him was when she dropped him off at

0:39:15.040 --> 0:39:19.080
<v Speaker 6>an address in inner suburban Melbourne, possibly q or Hawthorne.

0:39:20.640 --> 0:39:22.760
<v Speaker 6>While she's only been in the company of Rick Bloom

0:39:22.880 --> 0:39:27.560
<v Speaker 6>relatively few times, each time she met with him, Evelyn

0:39:27.640 --> 0:39:30.520
<v Speaker 6>recalled being concerned by the things he had to say

0:39:30.600 --> 0:39:34.120
<v Speaker 6>to her, pretending to act dumb so he didn't notice

0:39:34.200 --> 0:39:38.600
<v Speaker 6>her reactions. She just wanted it all to go away.

0:39:40.440 --> 0:39:44.600
<v Speaker 6>We realize that speaking with us and other journalists has

0:39:44.719 --> 0:39:49.320
<v Speaker 6>caused anxiety for Evelyn and Evelyn. We are sorry for

0:39:49.480 --> 0:39:53.120
<v Speaker 6>your understandable pain, and we are full of admiration for

0:39:53.280 --> 0:39:57.279
<v Speaker 6>your bravery in coming forward to help others. Thank you

0:39:57.440 --> 0:39:58.800
<v Speaker 6>so much, Evelyn.

0:40:05.320 --> 0:40:07.920
<v Speaker 1>We've always suspected that there are more women out there

0:40:07.960 --> 0:40:11.200
<v Speaker 1>who've fallen prey to Rick Blum's charms, being deceived and

0:40:11.400 --> 0:40:14.880
<v Speaker 1>robbed of much of their money. Now, thanks to Evelyn,

0:40:15.120 --> 0:40:19.759
<v Speaker 1>we believe there's at least one victim, possibly more in Melbourne, Australia.

0:40:21.000 --> 0:40:23.640
<v Speaker 1>We don't have any names or the name Rick Blum

0:40:23.800 --> 0:40:26.360
<v Speaker 1>may have been using at the time, and remember his

0:40:26.600 --> 0:40:30.319
<v Speaker 1>list of aliases continues to grow, possibly as many as

0:40:30.400 --> 0:40:34.040
<v Speaker 1>fifty now. But if you know of someone who was

0:40:34.080 --> 0:40:36.839
<v Speaker 1>scammed of large sums of money by a man who

0:40:36.920 --> 0:40:40.440
<v Speaker 1>seemed to disappear without a trace in the past twenty

0:40:40.640 --> 0:40:43.719
<v Speaker 1>or thirty or forty years, please get in touch with

0:40:43.880 --> 0:40:49.960
<v Speaker 1>us and report the matter to police. Our colleagues Tom

0:40:50.040 --> 0:40:53.720
<v Speaker 1>Riddell and Yannick Lambert at the Luxembourg Work and Belgian

0:40:53.800 --> 0:40:58.080
<v Speaker 1>journalist Peter Heiberrek have also been successful in tracking down

0:40:58.239 --> 0:41:04.080
<v Speaker 1>another of Blum's victims. You may recall last episode we

0:41:04.239 --> 0:41:09.640
<v Speaker 1>heard from Gulaine Dubois Danois she was jipped by Rick Blum,

0:41:10.000 --> 0:41:12.479
<v Speaker 1>a man she knew was Frederick, and had her life

0:41:12.600 --> 0:41:17.200
<v Speaker 1>savings taken by him before eventually she realized that she'd

0:41:17.280 --> 0:41:22.880
<v Speaker 1>been scammed. After telling her incredible story, she mentioned that

0:41:23.000 --> 0:41:26.160
<v Speaker 1>when she reported a case to police, she discovered that

0:41:26.280 --> 0:41:31.200
<v Speaker 1>there had been another victim in Tournay, Belgium. This other

0:41:31.280 --> 0:41:34.000
<v Speaker 1>woman had not only had her money taken from her,

0:41:34.440 --> 0:41:37.680
<v Speaker 1>but had dyed her hair blonde, traveled to Barley with

0:41:37.800 --> 0:41:43.040
<v Speaker 1>mister Blum and then been abandoned. To refresh your memory,

0:41:43.239 --> 0:41:47.480
<v Speaker 1>here's a snippet of what Gulaine Duois Danois had to say.

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<v Speaker 11>For example, the lady from Tourna, she changed her hair

0:41:52.800 --> 0:41:54.759
<v Speaker 11>collar and he abandoned her Invalis.

0:41:54.840 --> 0:41:56.719
<v Speaker 1>From what I know, I can.

0:41:56.680 --> 0:41:59.520
<v Speaker 11>Only tell you what the Tourney police told me. When

0:41:59.520 --> 0:42:02.640
<v Speaker 11>she came back from Bali, she filed a reporting Tournay

0:42:02.840 --> 0:42:05.640
<v Speaker 11>since she lived there. She told them she had stopped

0:42:05.719 --> 0:42:08.360
<v Speaker 11>to have any contact with her family after he asked

0:42:08.360 --> 0:42:11.959
<v Speaker 11>her to, although her family helped her a lot since

0:42:12.000 --> 0:42:15.400
<v Speaker 11>she was in Bali couldn't understand any English, so you

0:42:15.480 --> 0:42:19.400
<v Speaker 11>can imagine, and she didn't have any money left because

0:42:19.400 --> 0:42:22.360
<v Speaker 11>he had taken everything, absolutely everything.

0:42:26.040 --> 0:42:28.880
<v Speaker 1>It turns out that woman from Tornay had a reason

0:42:29.000 --> 0:42:33.080
<v Speaker 1>to trust Rick Blum. He was family. Remember how Rick

0:42:33.160 --> 0:42:36.080
<v Speaker 1>Blum told the inquest that the reason for his numerous

0:42:36.239 --> 0:42:39.680
<v Speaker 1>lengthy trips to Europe was to visit a cousin. It

0:42:39.840 --> 0:42:43.759
<v Speaker 1>seems he wasn't so much visiting his cousin, but his

0:42:43.960 --> 0:42:52.320
<v Speaker 1>cousin's lonely grieving widow, Tom Radell and Yannick Lambert tracked

0:42:52.360 --> 0:42:55.440
<v Speaker 1>her down and spoke with her, getting an incredible account,

0:42:55.920 --> 0:42:59.960
<v Speaker 1>while Belgian journalist Peter Heiberrek also reported on the story,

0:43:00.440 --> 0:43:04.719
<v Speaker 1>producing six pages of coverage in the Flemish daily newspaper

0:43:05.239 --> 0:43:09.400
<v Speaker 1>Nurse Blood. His front page spread revealed the many different

0:43:09.480 --> 0:43:12.880
<v Speaker 1>aliases of Rick Blum and photographs of him over the years.

0:43:13.800 --> 0:43:16.759
<v Speaker 12>For me, it was not a big story till the

0:43:16.880 --> 0:43:19.440
<v Speaker 12>past couple of weeks was like whorld, Okay, this is

0:43:19.680 --> 0:43:23.480
<v Speaker 12>more far more huge than I've expected. I convinced my

0:43:24.840 --> 0:43:26.960
<v Speaker 12>editor and said, okay, this is a big story. We

0:43:27.040 --> 0:43:28.879
<v Speaker 12>have to work on it and we have to Yeah,

0:43:28.960 --> 0:43:31.960
<v Speaker 12>it was nice, but now we go full gus. There's

0:43:32.000 --> 0:43:36.120
<v Speaker 12>one big problem I told you about. My dream is

0:43:36.160 --> 0:43:41.279
<v Speaker 12>that the Belgium federal prosecutor will start an investigation. I said, okay,

0:43:41.360 --> 0:43:43.879
<v Speaker 12>let's try and dig in the Belgium part of this case.

0:43:44.080 --> 0:43:46.880
<v Speaker 1>As Rick Blum's mother came from a large family, he

0:43:47.080 --> 0:43:49.759
<v Speaker 1>believes there will be plenty of people in Belgium who

0:43:49.880 --> 0:43:53.160
<v Speaker 1>may recognize his face or one of his names.

0:43:53.360 --> 0:43:55.759
<v Speaker 10>He still has family. I mean that they're a big

0:43:55.880 --> 0:43:58.239
<v Speaker 10>family apparently because his mother she had a lot of

0:43:58.280 --> 0:44:00.759
<v Speaker 10>siblings and there's a lot of cousins and aunts and

0:44:01.640 --> 0:44:06.600
<v Speaker 10>nephews and whatnot. And can you imagine being part of

0:44:06.719 --> 0:44:12.040
<v Speaker 10>this community and you go to the Tourney gas station

0:44:12.239 --> 0:44:14.719
<v Speaker 10>and you see this front page. I mean that puts

0:44:14.800 --> 0:44:15.680
<v Speaker 10>the pressure, right.

0:44:16.360 --> 0:44:19.600
<v Speaker 1>I recently spoke with Peter, Tom and Yannick via zoom

0:44:19.719 --> 0:44:21.719
<v Speaker 1>about how their investigations are going.

0:44:21.920 --> 0:44:25.480
<v Speaker 12>Lovely to meet you all virtually, Good afternoon, Good morning everyone.

0:44:25.880 --> 0:44:28.800
<v Speaker 1>You've obviously been working on a little bit as longer

0:44:29.040 --> 0:44:31.560
<v Speaker 1>Tom and Yannick and then Peter, you've sort of been

0:44:31.640 --> 0:44:34.080
<v Speaker 1>brought into it. How what did you think when you

0:44:34.239 --> 0:44:35.080
<v Speaker 1>first learned about it?

0:44:35.520 --> 0:44:38.640
<v Speaker 12>Well, actually it was Tom who contacted me a few

0:44:38.719 --> 0:44:43.040
<v Speaker 12>months ago, I guess, And from the first meeting we had,

0:44:43.120 --> 0:44:45.239
<v Speaker 12>I was like, okay, I was really surprised, and like,

0:44:45.880 --> 0:44:48.560
<v Speaker 12>as a journalist, it's like, this is a huge story

0:44:48.640 --> 0:44:53.480
<v Speaker 12>you have to investigate, and I was quite impressed about

0:44:53.760 --> 0:44:54.200
<v Speaker 12>to work.

0:44:54.280 --> 0:44:57.360
<v Speaker 10>So actually I was, they're quite impressed.

0:44:57.400 --> 0:45:01.160
<v Speaker 12>And then we started together to that's the Belgian part

0:45:01.360 --> 0:45:05.359
<v Speaker 12>of Billy Waters and Rick Bloom and that was quite

0:45:06.040 --> 0:45:09.600
<v Speaker 12>fascinating for a journalist, or for a crime journalist like me.

0:45:09.920 --> 0:45:13.840
<v Speaker 12>So yeah, it's an unbelievable story and we have to

0:45:13.960 --> 0:45:16.319
<v Speaker 12>keep on going for the next couple of years.

0:45:16.360 --> 0:45:20.560
<v Speaker 10>I guess. Yeah. I somehow managed to get him into

0:45:20.640 --> 0:45:26.160
<v Speaker 10>the story without him thinking I was completely insane or something,

0:45:26.280 --> 0:45:31.279
<v Speaker 10>because the story itself, when you tell somebody about it

0:45:31.520 --> 0:45:34.080
<v Speaker 10>for the first time, or when you try to give

0:45:34.120 --> 0:45:37.120
<v Speaker 10>a rundown what this story is all about. After a

0:45:37.200 --> 0:45:39.840
<v Speaker 10>few minutes, when you hear yourself talking, you think this

0:45:40.360 --> 0:45:45.840
<v Speaker 10>can't be right. This is so so extraordinary, with that

0:45:46.000 --> 0:45:50.800
<v Speaker 10>many pathways where it's going. But luckily Peter believed me

0:45:51.239 --> 0:45:51.880
<v Speaker 10>so to speak.

0:45:52.880 --> 0:45:54.960
<v Speaker 12>Yeah, and it's quite a difficult story with all the

0:45:55.680 --> 0:45:59.319
<v Speaker 12>fifteen names and all the countries he's been traveling too.

0:45:59.400 --> 0:46:04.600
<v Speaker 12>So yeah, it's been quite a work, but it's it's unbelievable.

0:46:04.680 --> 0:46:06.440
<v Speaker 1>Well, I think that's the same with here. I mean,

0:46:06.600 --> 0:46:09.160
<v Speaker 1>I guess that's why it's been so hard to initially

0:46:09.320 --> 0:46:12.120
<v Speaker 1>get out the media to jump on board with it,

0:46:12.600 --> 0:46:18.719
<v Speaker 1>because it is so bizarre. And Tom Brian met you

0:46:19.000 --> 0:46:20.160
<v Speaker 1>back in twenty nineteen.

0:46:21.920 --> 0:46:24.880
<v Speaker 13>Yeah, and I was peripherally involved at the time because

0:46:25.200 --> 0:46:27.000
<v Speaker 13>I was sat in the office with my editor in

0:46:27.080 --> 0:46:29.680
<v Speaker 13>chief who had also met Brian. But I wasn't involved

0:46:29.719 --> 0:46:33.359
<v Speaker 13>in the story just then. And so yeah, I guess

0:46:33.440 --> 0:46:35.239
<v Speaker 13>we but I've been aware of it, and so we've

0:46:35.280 --> 0:46:37.440
<v Speaker 13>been sitting on it for some time and we couldn't

0:46:37.440 --> 0:46:40.320
<v Speaker 13>really get anywhere with it. And I think it was

0:46:40.640 --> 0:46:42.120
<v Speaker 13>I think it was the beginning of last year we

0:46:42.239 --> 0:46:44.560
<v Speaker 13>just decided that let's get in like an initial like

0:46:44.719 --> 0:46:47.400
<v Speaker 13>story out where we just right about the links we

0:46:47.520 --> 0:46:51.239
<v Speaker 13>know between Rick Bloom, Frederica Hadavari whatever his name is,

0:46:51.440 --> 0:46:54.440
<v Speaker 13>and Luxembourg. And I think that was the good decision

0:46:54.480 --> 0:46:56.920
<v Speaker 13>to just do that, like without like doing like a

0:46:57.040 --> 0:46:59.960
<v Speaker 13>Troup investigation. But that led to, you know, other people

0:47:00.200 --> 0:47:03.759
<v Speaker 13>like Gillen's daughter in law contacting us, and so we

0:47:03.840 --> 0:47:06.120
<v Speaker 13>were getting somewhere. So we started getting some I guess

0:47:06.239 --> 0:47:07.760
<v Speaker 13>visibility for the story.

0:47:10.280 --> 0:47:12.720
<v Speaker 1>Tom and Yannick met the widow of Rit Blum's cousin

0:47:12.840 --> 0:47:15.840
<v Speaker 1>and her son in a restaurant in Belgium. She didn't

0:47:15.840 --> 0:47:18.760
<v Speaker 1>want her real name used or to be recognized in photos,

0:47:18.840 --> 0:47:22.560
<v Speaker 1>as only close family members know what happened. It was

0:47:22.640 --> 0:47:24.920
<v Speaker 1>her son who convinced her to share her story in

0:47:25.000 --> 0:47:28.080
<v Speaker 1>the hope that this fraud stuff may be brought to justice.

0:47:28.760 --> 0:47:32.960
<v Speaker 1>So they settled on a pseudonym Charlotte and photographed her

0:47:33.160 --> 0:47:38.640
<v Speaker 1>from behind. Tom and Yannick learned that Charlotte was sixty

0:47:38.800 --> 0:47:42.760
<v Speaker 1>when our husband of forty years mckel died in twenty eleven.

0:47:43.480 --> 0:47:45.960
<v Speaker 1>They had had a full life together, a grown up

0:47:46.040 --> 0:47:49.920
<v Speaker 1>son and grandchildren. While she was still working, Michel had

0:47:50.040 --> 0:47:54.000
<v Speaker 1>left her financially secure. Although family members took great care

0:47:54.120 --> 0:47:59.000
<v Speaker 1>of Charlotte. Eventually, over time, everyday life returned, but Charlotte's

0:47:59.040 --> 0:48:05.960
<v Speaker 1>life and home were a lot emptier and lonelier than before. However,

0:48:06.600 --> 0:48:10.239
<v Speaker 1>there was one family member who continued to keep in touch,

0:48:10.640 --> 0:48:15.839
<v Speaker 1>sending cards and calling often. He provided a sympathetic ear

0:48:16.280 --> 0:48:22.880
<v Speaker 1>and was willing to listen. That person from Australia, cousin

0:48:23.000 --> 0:48:28.240
<v Speaker 1>Willie aka Rick Blum, was related to Charlotte's late husband.

0:48:29.719 --> 0:48:33.400
<v Speaker 1>While he wasn't someone Charlotte really knew, her husband had

0:48:33.480 --> 0:48:37.160
<v Speaker 1>spoken of this cousin. After eight months of conversation, in

0:48:37.360 --> 0:48:41.719
<v Speaker 1>March twenty twelve, cousin Willie came to visit, apparently to

0:48:41.920 --> 0:48:47.120
<v Speaker 1>keep her company during her time of grief. He convinced

0:48:47.160 --> 0:48:49.240
<v Speaker 1>her to take a trip to Bali with him because

0:48:49.320 --> 0:48:52.400
<v Speaker 1>he told her she needed to get away, and she thought,

0:48:52.719 --> 0:48:56.120
<v Speaker 1>why not take a vacation with a relative. It wasn't

0:48:56.160 --> 0:48:58.920
<v Speaker 1>long before one hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of

0:48:59.040 --> 0:49:03.880
<v Speaker 1>cash and valuables were taken, including Charlotte's wedding ring, a

0:49:04.000 --> 0:49:08.240
<v Speaker 1>valuable stamp collection and a coin collection worth about twenty

0:49:08.320 --> 0:49:12.920
<v Speaker 1>five thousand euros. Cousin Willie failed to return from a

0:49:12.960 --> 0:49:19.239
<v Speaker 1>business appointment and Charlotte found herself abandoned in Bali. After

0:49:19.360 --> 0:49:22.480
<v Speaker 1>managing to get home to Belgium, she reported to police

0:49:22.760 --> 0:49:25.759
<v Speaker 1>in April twenty twelve, only to be told that it

0:49:25.920 --> 0:49:30.000
<v Speaker 1>was unlikely cousin Willie would be extradited from Australia.

0:49:32.000 --> 0:49:35.560
<v Speaker 10>There's a difference in her case from the other cases

0:49:35.640 --> 0:49:38.480
<v Speaker 10>we know in that he was family so to speak.

0:49:38.760 --> 0:49:42.759
<v Speaker 10>He is the cousin of her late husband, so he

0:49:43.360 --> 0:49:48.360
<v Speaker 10>sent postcards every year for Christmas from holidays. She actually

0:49:48.400 --> 0:49:50.680
<v Speaker 10>gave us one postcard from Ballei, which has nothing to

0:49:50.760 --> 0:49:52.799
<v Speaker 10>do with her trip to Bali, but was earlier when

0:49:53.040 --> 0:49:56.960
<v Speaker 10>one he sent to his cousin, so basically he was

0:49:57.080 --> 0:50:02.720
<v Speaker 10>already someone for her. That still doesn't explain in my opinion,

0:50:02.960 --> 0:50:05.680
<v Speaker 10>there's still the open question. I'm not a psychologist, I'm

0:50:05.760 --> 0:50:11.239
<v Speaker 10>not a forensics expert. I don't have too much expertise

0:50:11.360 --> 0:50:14.640
<v Speaker 10>or experience with those fraud cases. But in my opinion,

0:50:14.680 --> 0:50:17.759
<v Speaker 10>there's still this huge question of how did this guy

0:50:17.880 --> 0:50:22.719
<v Speaker 10>make it happen to approach people who within weeks give

0:50:22.840 --> 0:50:26.880
<v Speaker 10>him like six figure amounts of money in cash with

0:50:27.080 --> 0:50:31.120
<v Speaker 10>highly dubious pretexts like let's buy a house in Bali

0:50:31.200 --> 0:50:33.520
<v Speaker 10>together and we split the cost fifty to fifty. But

0:50:33.600 --> 0:50:36.759
<v Speaker 10>it needs to be in cash because of customs or

0:50:36.960 --> 0:50:39.799
<v Speaker 10>taxes or whatever. Just trust me, it will be all right.

0:50:39.960 --> 0:50:42.160
<v Speaker 10>Because he was a professional, they didn't have much of

0:50:42.239 --> 0:50:46.160
<v Speaker 10>a chance for this thing to go any other direction. Apparently,

0:50:47.120 --> 0:50:49.399
<v Speaker 10>if you just watch it from the result or from

0:50:49.480 --> 0:50:54.040
<v Speaker 10>the end, it's incredible how efficient he was with this

0:50:54.239 --> 0:50:58.240
<v Speaker 10>kind of stick. Yeah, he was on a mission. Still,

0:50:58.719 --> 0:51:01.640
<v Speaker 10>how can it be that this guy gets that bag

0:51:01.719 --> 0:51:03.439
<v Speaker 10>of money in no time?

0:51:03.600 --> 0:51:06.680
<v Speaker 13>Basically, Yeah, what I would edit is as well as

0:51:06.800 --> 0:51:10.440
<v Speaker 13>like with Charlotte, of course the relationship was different between

0:51:10.480 --> 0:51:14.120
<v Speaker 13>her and Bloom, but also the way we talked to her.

0:51:15.160 --> 0:51:17.040
<v Speaker 13>It came about in a very different way than than

0:51:17.080 --> 0:51:22.239
<v Speaker 13>the previous woman and Gillian Donois, because she contacted us

0:51:22.360 --> 0:51:24.400
<v Speaker 13>Delian or Gillian's daughter in law at first, so she

0:51:24.560 --> 0:51:26.319
<v Speaker 13>was like very open to talk to us as well,

0:51:26.320 --> 0:51:29.240
<v Speaker 13>whereas with wish a Lot, we had identified her based

0:51:29.360 --> 0:51:32.920
<v Speaker 13>on certain elements that we've been aware of, and she

0:51:33.120 --> 0:51:35.040
<v Speaker 13>was an initially very reluctant to talk to us. She

0:51:35.080 --> 0:51:37.120
<v Speaker 13>didn't pick up the phone, and she thought we were

0:51:37.200 --> 0:51:41.400
<v Speaker 13>trying to scam her with multiple phone calls something like that.

0:51:42.400 --> 0:51:44.920
<v Speaker 13>So but it was actually her, her son, who convinced

0:51:44.920 --> 0:51:46.440
<v Speaker 13>it to talk to us. And of course she was

0:51:46.680 --> 0:51:49.879
<v Speaker 13>maybe at first a bit more reserved in her relationship

0:51:50.360 --> 0:51:54.160
<v Speaker 13>to this whole story, but she she opened up and

0:51:54.680 --> 0:51:57.040
<v Speaker 13>I think she she she knew it was important for

0:51:57.120 --> 0:52:00.239
<v Speaker 13>her to reveal what had happened to her without feeling

0:52:00.280 --> 0:52:03.719
<v Speaker 13>her full identity, of course, which which we respected, so

0:52:03.960 --> 0:52:07.240
<v Speaker 13>which is totally understandable because it's such a difficult experience

0:52:07.280 --> 0:52:07.880
<v Speaker 13>to talk about.

0:52:08.560 --> 0:52:12.680
<v Speaker 1>Is she more traumatized do you think, then, Gulane? I mean,

0:52:12.800 --> 0:52:17.319
<v Speaker 1>obviously they're all got an element of trying to recover from,

0:52:17.800 --> 0:52:21.760
<v Speaker 1>you know, such an awful you know, like it's because

0:52:21.800 --> 0:52:27.719
<v Speaker 1>these predators they really aim to attack their vulnerability, right,

0:52:27.840 --> 0:52:33.480
<v Speaker 1>and and and they were all widows or single, so

0:52:34.239 --> 0:52:37.200
<v Speaker 1>it's it's one of those things that you get lonely

0:52:37.360 --> 0:52:41.160
<v Speaker 1>and you want to believe, right. So I guess with

0:52:41.600 --> 0:52:44.719
<v Speaker 1>with her though, was she did she, you know, seem

0:52:44.800 --> 0:52:46.000
<v Speaker 1>to struggle more with it?

0:52:46.160 --> 0:52:46.520
<v Speaker 10>Do you think?

0:52:46.880 --> 0:52:48.560
<v Speaker 13>I think it's difficult for me to say. I think

0:52:48.600 --> 0:52:52.239
<v Speaker 13>that's not something she opened up about. I think it's

0:52:52.600 --> 0:52:54.879
<v Speaker 13>hard to keep in mind that her experience was more

0:52:54.960 --> 0:52:57.440
<v Speaker 13>recent than the other ones, so maybe it's it's more

0:52:57.480 --> 0:53:01.360
<v Speaker 13>and more present to her still. And also because I

0:53:01.440 --> 0:53:04.719
<v Speaker 13>think she was fine with not talking about it at all,

0:53:04.920 --> 0:53:06.680
<v Speaker 13>and that's kind of how she managed to move on.

0:53:06.840 --> 0:53:09.640
<v Speaker 13>That was my impression at least, So this kind of

0:53:09.880 --> 0:53:13.480
<v Speaker 13>opened new wounds for her, whereas the other ones, Gilane

0:53:13.520 --> 0:53:17.600
<v Speaker 13>seemed much more maybe proactively a certain in that regard.

0:53:17.680 --> 0:53:19.839
<v Speaker 13>So that's all I can say. Whether she'd been more

0:53:19.880 --> 0:53:21.560
<v Speaker 13>traumatized and the other I don't know. I think they

0:53:21.600 --> 0:53:24.279
<v Speaker 13>were both pretty badly affected by it, but I think

0:53:24.280 --> 0:53:26.080
<v Speaker 13>it's difficult to compare to the things, at least from

0:53:26.080 --> 0:53:26.759
<v Speaker 13>my perspective.

0:53:27.719 --> 0:53:30.279
<v Speaker 10>Yeah, I think the family thing comes into play here

0:53:30.760 --> 0:53:34.719
<v Speaker 10>once more, because when we were discussing how we would

0:53:35.640 --> 0:53:39.160
<v Speaker 10>anonymize her name or how much of her identity we

0:53:39.200 --> 0:53:42.440
<v Speaker 10>could reveal, whether she would like we had the photographer

0:53:42.800 --> 0:53:46.040
<v Speaker 10>only taking pictures where you can see her from behind.

0:53:47.480 --> 0:53:50.759
<v Speaker 10>She was saying something like, well, it's not so much

0:53:50.840 --> 0:53:53.480
<v Speaker 10>for me, but it's still it's the name that my

0:53:53.640 --> 0:53:57.880
<v Speaker 10>son and it's my son's family, right, So, because she

0:53:58.040 --> 0:54:00.880
<v Speaker 10>could distance herself from that part of the family because

0:54:02.120 --> 0:54:04.840
<v Speaker 10>it was basically her cousin in law, but she was

0:54:06.680 --> 0:54:11.160
<v Speaker 10>she cared for her son's family name if you will,

0:54:11.280 --> 0:54:16.160
<v Speaker 10>or identity and son. Well, he didn't seem like it

0:54:16.520 --> 0:54:19.680
<v Speaker 10>faced him too much or basically he was all game

0:54:19.800 --> 0:54:23.120
<v Speaker 10>with her to talk about it, et cetera. But there

0:54:23.239 --> 0:54:25.600
<v Speaker 10>was her reason to say to us, please leave my

0:54:26.480 --> 0:54:28.560
<v Speaker 10>or please get me another name, so to speak, right

0:54:28.800 --> 0:54:31.400
<v Speaker 10>for the story, and that's I think that's still the

0:54:31.440 --> 0:54:35.080
<v Speaker 10>big difference between those two women. As for trauma, I

0:54:35.520 --> 0:54:37.279
<v Speaker 10>couldn't say either. I mean, we only met her for

0:54:37.440 --> 0:54:39.000
<v Speaker 10>like three hours. It's hard to tell.

0:54:39.440 --> 0:54:41.279
<v Speaker 1>What about some of the other stuff that's come out,

0:54:41.360 --> 0:54:44.120
<v Speaker 1>you know, the poisons. Obviously you probably saw the latest

0:54:44.280 --> 0:54:48.759
<v Speaker 1>article over here with this seeming obsession with poisons. You'd

0:54:48.800 --> 0:54:53.359
<v Speaker 1>know about Alona Kingsley's third wife dying in a bizarre way.

0:54:53.960 --> 0:54:57.239
<v Speaker 1>I mean, do you think it could be more sinister then?

0:54:57.480 --> 0:54:59.920
<v Speaker 13>I guess just for I think it's also difficult to

0:55:00.120 --> 0:55:05.480
<v Speaker 13>save for us. But there certainly are many more elements

0:55:05.560 --> 0:55:08.240
<v Speaker 13>or proplines to be discovered, and even here in Luxembourg

0:55:08.280 --> 0:55:10.319
<v Speaker 13>we have a couple of leads. Not'ssarily more sinister ones,

0:55:10.360 --> 0:55:13.919
<v Speaker 13>but that point towards involvement in other types of frog.

0:55:14.000 --> 0:55:16.960
<v Speaker 1>Perhaps we're hoping that as a result of Tom and

0:55:17.080 --> 0:55:21.120
<v Speaker 1>Yannick's reports in German, English and French, and Peter's stories

0:55:21.160 --> 0:55:25.080
<v Speaker 1>in Flemish, that there may be more people who come forward.

0:55:25.320 --> 0:55:27.560
<v Speaker 10>We didn't do too deep of a dive into the

0:55:27.600 --> 0:55:30.279
<v Speaker 10>community thing yet, but I see us coming back to

0:55:30.360 --> 0:55:33.200
<v Speaker 10>Belgium maybe one or two more times.

0:55:33.480 --> 0:55:36.440
<v Speaker 1>Tom in Yannick discovered that the reason Charlotte dyed her

0:55:36.520 --> 0:55:40.000
<v Speaker 1>hair blonde is because cousin Willie arranged it while they

0:55:40.040 --> 0:55:40.720
<v Speaker 1>were in Bali.

0:55:41.080 --> 0:55:44.800
<v Speaker 10>He booked her the fullwareness treatment and the fact that

0:55:45.160 --> 0:55:48.520
<v Speaker 10>he told the hairdresser what color to get. It's not

0:55:48.719 --> 0:55:52.280
<v Speaker 10>her that told him that. According to Charlotte, that's entirely

0:55:52.360 --> 0:55:56.200
<v Speaker 10>because she didn't speak English. So basically he managed all

0:55:56.239 --> 0:55:59.560
<v Speaker 10>the appointments, and then he told the hairdresser about the color,

0:55:59.600 --> 0:56:02.080
<v Speaker 10>and then she was kind of shocked when they actually

0:56:02.160 --> 0:56:04.680
<v Speaker 10>went through with it. So she literally said, I looked

0:56:04.719 --> 0:56:08.560
<v Speaker 10>like a canary. And her son said, well, yeah, that's true.

0:56:08.560 --> 0:56:10.400
<v Speaker 10>I didn't recognize my mother when I picked her up

0:56:10.440 --> 0:56:12.879
<v Speaker 10>from the airport, But he said it jokingly in a way.

0:56:16.719 --> 0:56:19.960
<v Speaker 1>Charlotte said she never saw cousin Willie again after that

0:56:20.080 --> 0:56:25.480
<v Speaker 1>hairdressing appointment. There has been conjecture about why Rick Blum

0:56:25.719 --> 0:56:30.040
<v Speaker 1>has wanted women to change their hair color. Remember he

0:56:30.200 --> 0:56:33.400
<v Speaker 1>wanted Janet Oldenburg to dye her hair blonde too, but

0:56:33.560 --> 0:56:37.760
<v Speaker 1>her hairdresser refused. Did mister Blum have a preference for blondes?

0:56:38.160 --> 0:56:41.960
<v Speaker 1>Was he trying to disguise someone's identity, or was there

0:56:42.000 --> 0:56:48.279
<v Speaker 1>a more sinister reason linked to poisons. But think about this.

0:56:48.640 --> 0:56:51.359
<v Speaker 1>Bleaching one's hair at the hairdresser can take a good

0:56:51.480 --> 0:56:54.279
<v Speaker 1>couple of hours, and if the hair is quite dark

0:56:54.400 --> 0:56:58.320
<v Speaker 1>and thick, the bleaching process can take even longer. Perhaps

0:56:58.400 --> 0:57:01.600
<v Speaker 1>mister Blum wanted these women to have lengthy hair appointments

0:57:01.880 --> 0:57:04.759
<v Speaker 1>so he could buy time and do things without the

0:57:04.840 --> 0:57:09.200
<v Speaker 1>women knowing. That's the conclusion that Yannick and Tom came

0:57:09.280 --> 0:57:10.920
<v Speaker 1>to it was.

0:57:11.000 --> 0:57:14.439
<v Speaker 10>Kind of a cover story in the sense of, yeah,

0:57:15.320 --> 0:57:17.160
<v Speaker 10>I'm sorry I have to leave overnight, but I'll be

0:57:17.240 --> 0:57:19.440
<v Speaker 10>back tomorrow. You go to the hairdresser and to spind

0:57:19.480 --> 0:57:22.240
<v Speaker 10>the massage and have a good time. I'm and also

0:57:22.400 --> 0:57:25.360
<v Speaker 10>maybe while you while you're sitting in that hairdresser's chair

0:57:25.840 --> 0:57:28.760
<v Speaker 10>waiting for your hair to be dyed, you don't go anywhere.

0:57:28.920 --> 0:57:32.120
<v Speaker 10>You don't you don't do anything else in terms of

0:57:33.720 --> 0:57:36.320
<v Speaker 10>trying to find out where he is or whether everything's okay.

0:57:36.760 --> 0:57:39.800
<v Speaker 10>You don't have access to a telephone maybe during that time.

0:57:40.200 --> 0:57:43.680
<v Speaker 10>So basically he bought himself some time, I suppose with

0:57:43.840 --> 0:57:47.760
<v Speaker 10>this whole thing similar to what she also told us

0:57:47.800 --> 0:57:52.080
<v Speaker 10>about the one with the safe combination. So basically all

0:57:52.160 --> 0:57:55.760
<v Speaker 10>her papers or photocopies of her travel documents were in

0:57:55.840 --> 0:57:58.760
<v Speaker 10>the hotel safe in her room, but he had the combination.

0:57:59.400 --> 0:58:02.480
<v Speaker 10>It wasn't quite clear whether she never had it or

0:58:02.560 --> 0:58:05.080
<v Speaker 10>whether he changed it before he left, but in any event,

0:58:05.760 --> 0:58:08.400
<v Speaker 10>she couldn't access her travel documents for like two days

0:58:08.840 --> 0:58:11.520
<v Speaker 10>until he sent the email to the hotel. So that's

0:58:11.600 --> 0:58:15.200
<v Speaker 10>also basically along those same lines of buying himself time

0:58:15.760 --> 0:58:18.160
<v Speaker 10>and freezing her in the hotel, so to speak, and

0:58:18.400 --> 0:58:21.360
<v Speaker 10>in my opinion, the hair dyeing goes into that category

0:58:21.520 --> 0:58:26.200
<v Speaker 10>much more than into any poison category. Maybe combine this

0:58:26.440 --> 0:58:29.800
<v Speaker 10>with like a control freaked thing, so it's him who

0:58:30.120 --> 0:58:34.800
<v Speaker 10>decides what his women look like. But that's also very speculative,

0:58:34.840 --> 0:58:36.240
<v Speaker 10>and again I'm not a psychologist.

0:58:36.720 --> 0:58:39.840
<v Speaker 1>It wasn't long after that hair appointment that Charlotte realized

0:58:40.040 --> 0:58:43.640
<v Speaker 1>she'd been left high and dry in Bali. She couldn't

0:58:43.680 --> 0:58:45.680
<v Speaker 1>speak English or Indonesian.

0:58:45.960 --> 0:58:49.720
<v Speaker 13>I think she realized fairly quickly what was happening, and

0:58:50.240 --> 0:58:54.200
<v Speaker 13>she had difficulties accessing her belongings in the hotel. But

0:58:54.760 --> 0:58:57.760
<v Speaker 13>the hotel was sent by Rick Bloom the code to

0:58:57.880 --> 0:59:00.440
<v Speaker 13>open the safe, so she was able to retreat a documents.

0:59:01.120 --> 0:59:02.720
<v Speaker 13>And one of the issues she had in Bali was

0:59:02.760 --> 0:59:06.000
<v Speaker 13>obviously she did she didn't speak English or didn't speak

0:59:06.000 --> 0:59:08.720
<v Speaker 13>it very well at all, so she had to She

0:59:08.920 --> 0:59:10.960
<v Speaker 13>likely found the local tour guy who spoke French more

0:59:11.000 --> 0:59:13.240
<v Speaker 13>or less fluently, oh help her to get out of

0:59:13.600 --> 0:59:15.520
<v Speaker 13>get out of the country. So it took us some time,

0:59:15.960 --> 0:59:17.760
<v Speaker 13>so she was able to get to get back and

0:59:19.320 --> 0:59:23.080
<v Speaker 13>to return to Belgium, where she i don't remember the

0:59:23.120 --> 0:59:25.840
<v Speaker 13>exact time, but she almost right away I think fired

0:59:25.840 --> 0:59:27.880
<v Speaker 13>the report with the police that she'd been defrauded.

0:59:28.000 --> 0:59:30.640
<v Speaker 10>Yeah. Three days after she returned, she went to the police.

0:59:31.360 --> 0:59:34.800
<v Speaker 1>Cousin Willie apparently left her a message that he'd taken

0:59:34.920 --> 0:59:39.000
<v Speaker 1>her money because her late husband owed him. It was

0:59:39.040 --> 0:59:41.200
<v Speaker 1>the first time she'd ever heard such a thing from

0:59:41.280 --> 0:59:44.480
<v Speaker 1>Rick Blum, and she couldn't recall her husband, Michel, who

0:59:44.560 --> 0:59:48.000
<v Speaker 1>had an exemplary career in banking, ever saying he owed

0:59:48.120 --> 0:59:49.880
<v Speaker 1>anything to his cousin in Australia.

0:59:50.120 --> 0:59:54.240
<v Speaker 10>And there's another thing about this email to the hotel.

0:59:54.480 --> 0:59:56.760
<v Speaker 10>In the email to the hotel, he explained to her

0:59:56.840 --> 1:00:00.400
<v Speaker 10>that he took the money because her late husband owed

1:00:00.440 --> 1:00:04.520
<v Speaker 10>it to him, supposedly, And she said that can't be

1:00:04.760 --> 1:00:06.720
<v Speaker 10>right because he never mentioned it and I don't know

1:00:06.840 --> 1:00:09.120
<v Speaker 10>anything about it. And then it bawned on her that

1:00:09.280 --> 1:00:13.120
<v Speaker 10>she's been had so to speak. Yeah, and then she

1:00:13.920 --> 1:00:16.480
<v Speaker 10>she decided to get back home as quickly as possible

1:00:16.600 --> 1:00:19.680
<v Speaker 10>and go to the police. And also in the police

1:00:19.720 --> 1:00:22.120
<v Speaker 10>pilot says when she came back home, she discovered that

1:00:22.240 --> 1:00:25.680
<v Speaker 10>she had been robbed because stuff was missing from her apartment.

1:00:25.600 --> 1:00:29.600
<v Speaker 13>Like stem stamp collection, jewelry, and we have reached.

1:00:29.360 --> 1:00:32.479
<v Speaker 1>Out to Charlotte via Tom and Yannick, but so far.

1:00:32.720 --> 1:00:35.640
<v Speaker 10>She's not been in touch, not yet, I'm afraid, so

1:00:36.360 --> 1:00:40.000
<v Speaker 10>we'll try again, but I haven't heard back yet. I

1:00:40.120 --> 1:00:42.880
<v Speaker 10>send an I sent an email to her son explaining

1:00:43.560 --> 1:00:47.400
<v Speaker 10>that everything is published now and send him a link

1:00:47.480 --> 1:00:51.680
<v Speaker 10>to the to our French translation and explaining who you

1:00:51.840 --> 1:00:55.000
<v Speaker 10>are and what she could expect from talking to you,

1:00:55.120 --> 1:00:58.640
<v Speaker 10>et cetera. But also, I mean, we talked about you guys,

1:00:58.720 --> 1:01:01.800
<v Speaker 10>and about the whole the whole publication history of the

1:01:01.840 --> 1:01:04.360
<v Speaker 10>whole case already, so she I think she knew what

1:01:04.480 --> 1:01:08.480
<v Speaker 10>she was into when she talked to us. But yeah,

1:01:09.040 --> 1:01:11.280
<v Speaker 10>I haven't heard back yet. Can be for whatever reason.

1:01:11.440 --> 1:01:14.600
<v Speaker 6>So so what did Rick Bloom have to say about

1:01:14.680 --> 1:01:18.800
<v Speaker 6>these latest allegations. I tried calling mister Bloom, but I

1:01:18.960 --> 1:01:22.240
<v Speaker 6>was diverted to his answering service. It seems he's had

1:01:22.360 --> 1:01:25.600
<v Speaker 6>enough of talking to me. We did send a seven

1:01:25.680 --> 1:01:29.120
<v Speaker 6>News reporter along to his home in East Ballina to ask.

1:01:29.240 --> 1:01:31.480
<v Speaker 1>Rick, are you concerned about the evidence that's building up.

1:01:31.720 --> 1:01:34.680
<v Speaker 6>We caught up with mister Bloom and his wife, Diane

1:01:35.240 --> 1:01:38.800
<v Speaker 6>as they walked up to their house as usual, mister

1:01:38.880 --> 1:01:41.720
<v Speaker 6>Bloom remained quiet. Are you worried that you might be

1:01:41.840 --> 1:01:47.960
<v Speaker 6>arrested soon? So was Diane, although she did tell the

1:01:48.080 --> 1:01:49.400
<v Speaker 6>crew to go away.

1:01:49.800 --> 1:01:49.960
<v Speaker 10>Rick.

1:01:54.160 --> 1:01:57.080
<v Speaker 6>Anyway, back now to Allison and her chat with our

1:01:57.120 --> 1:02:01.440
<v Speaker 6>European colleagues Tom Yannick and the thanks Brian.

1:02:02.000 --> 1:02:05.640
<v Speaker 1>After his articles were published, Peter was contacted by another woman,

1:02:05.960 --> 1:02:08.320
<v Speaker 1>but it turned out to be a false lead. At

1:02:08.360 --> 1:02:12.640
<v Speaker 1>this stage, from our understanding, there's no official investigation underway

1:02:12.840 --> 1:02:13.440
<v Speaker 1>in Belgium.

1:02:13.880 --> 1:02:15.200
<v Speaker 10>So I contacted.

1:02:15.880 --> 1:02:18.600
<v Speaker 12>I sent my articles and also the articles published in

1:02:18.680 --> 1:02:23.080
<v Speaker 12>Luxembourg and some Australian articles to the Federal Justice Department

1:02:23.160 --> 1:02:26.520
<v Speaker 12>here and I'm still waiting for an answer if they

1:02:26.560 --> 1:02:31.120
<v Speaker 12>will start an investigation in Belgium. I hope so, but

1:02:31.240 --> 1:02:33.760
<v Speaker 12>it's not clear actually at the moment, At this moment,

1:02:33.880 --> 1:02:38.720
<v Speaker 12>there's no real Belgium investigation going on. So in Belgia

1:02:38.760 --> 1:02:41.320
<v Speaker 12>really have to find a prosecutor with the same interest

1:02:41.520 --> 1:02:44.160
<v Speaker 12>like us, who really wants to dig in that story,

1:02:44.200 --> 1:02:48.480
<v Speaker 12>in that old story. But there are plenty other things

1:02:48.520 --> 1:02:53.960
<v Speaker 12>to do in Belgium to solve then going after Rick

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<v Speaker 12>Plumus on the other side of the world. So yeah,

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<v Speaker 12>it's difficult, but we have to try.

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<v Speaker 10>We published a little call for witnesses so to speak,

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<v Speaker 10>and said do you remember this man under the following

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<v Speaker 10>names which were relevant to Luxembourg in our opinion, and

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<v Speaker 10>also with based names like Sane.

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<v Speaker 1>They've received messages from one man who remember playing soccer

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<v Speaker 1>with Fernande Remarkael as a child, and others from people

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<v Speaker 1>who remember the furniture store Rick Blum operated in Luxembourg.

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<v Speaker 1>Then there were a few people who recalled an Australian

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<v Speaker 1>television crew being in town a few years back, which

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<v Speaker 1>was likely Brian and Sally, and someone who suggested Rick

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<v Speaker 1>Blum's furniture shop may also have been involved in some

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<v Speaker 1>shady business.

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<v Speaker 10>It shows us that people read the story and that

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<v Speaker 10>they actually made the right connections in a way. But

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<v Speaker 10>it's nothing in there that you didn't already know.

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<v Speaker 13>What is interesting about this shop that I just wanted

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<v Speaker 13>to beily mention is that before that I spoke to someone,

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<v Speaker 13>a reliable source from that village where I'm also actually from,

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<v Speaker 13>that knew the shop that apparently he sold stolen goods

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<v Speaker 13>in that furniture store, and I think that is something

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<v Speaker 13>that we want to investigate a bit further as well.

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<v Speaker 13>Where did you get these antiquities from? And how long

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<v Speaker 13>did the shop operate forward? Who has knew something of

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<v Speaker 13>the shop. So that's the lead I'm really trying to

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<v Speaker 13>follow now, so maybe it will reveal some more. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 13>I think there's all There were other reports from the

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<v Speaker 13>time that we can't fully tie to him yet, but

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<v Speaker 13>I think there's indications that he might have been involved

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<v Speaker 13>in maybe something more organized and something a bit larger,

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<v Speaker 13>But who knows so well.

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<v Speaker 10>One thing, one thing we need to be careful with

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<v Speaker 10>also is what Charlotte told us. It's a furniture business,

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<v Speaker 10>a furniture family business, as in they make their own furniture,

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<v Speaker 10>so it's new furniture so far as seats, whatever, furniture.

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<v Speaker 10>But it's not necessarily an antique store that went down

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<v Speaker 10>in that he operated in a But the source Jick

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<v Speaker 10>was referring to actually said he sold couches that weren't his.

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<v Speaker 10>So so it can be both, of course, But according

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<v Speaker 10>to family history, because they would know Charlotte and her

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<v Speaker 10>son would know about these things. They said, the parents

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<v Speaker 10>already had a furniture a little factory making furniture and

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<v Speaker 10>selling it back in the day.

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<v Speaker 1>I suggest that Blum is like the original Tinder Swindler,

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<v Speaker 1>referring to the British crime documentary about a real life

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<v Speaker 1>fraudster who tricked women he met on Tinder into giving

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<v Speaker 1>him money, except without the Tinder.

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<v Speaker 13>It's interesting that you mentioned the Tinnersoner. We've watched it

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<v Speaker 13>the other day and I just the paralys it's just

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<v Speaker 13>so striking. It's it's actually, yeah, it fits perfectly almost.

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<v Speaker 13>I would say it's kind of the pre digital Tinder Swindler,

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<v Speaker 13>so without dating apps, but the kind of the methods

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<v Speaker 13>very similar. And I guess there's there's some differences of course,

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<v Speaker 13>in that the original Tin the Tinder Swindler of the documentary,

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<v Speaker 13>he's been promising this like, you know, fantastic wealthy lifestyle,

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<v Speaker 13>which Room hasn't been doing so much. It's just like

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<v Speaker 13>kind of been advertising exoptic destinations, so to speak. And

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<v Speaker 13>but yeah, I know it's very interesting also, I think

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<v Speaker 13>psychologically to compare compared to each other, well, is that.

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<v Speaker 1>That whole starting a new life thing and an adventure.

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<v Speaker 1>But also at the same time he gets them out

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<v Speaker 1>of their comfort zone, right, so if he gets into

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<v Speaker 1>Bali or you know, out of their home territory. They

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<v Speaker 1>rely completely on him, so it's it's you can see

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<v Speaker 1>why it worked.

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<v Speaker 10>That's actually also one of those things with Charlotte that

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<v Speaker 10>don't make that much sense, because apparently she gave him

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<v Speaker 10>the money while they were still in Belgium. So why

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<v Speaker 10>still take her to Bali would be my question. You

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<v Speaker 10>just you arrived at your target. Basically you're being handed

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<v Speaker 10>two bags with fifty thousand euros each. What else can

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<v Speaker 10>you want? Why still go to Bali and do all

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<v Speaker 10>the Bali stuff other than maybe exercising control or disorienting

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<v Speaker 10>your victim. Yeah, apparently, he asked her. At one point,

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<v Speaker 10>he asked her whether she still had the passport of

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<v Speaker 10>her late husband, which she refused. So she said, in Belgium,

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<v Speaker 10>when you die, your passport is being sent back to

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<v Speaker 10>the authorities and is destroyed. I guess, and I'm not

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<v Speaker 10>even sure if that is true, but that's what she

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<v Speaker 10>told him. So bottom line, he couldn't have the passport

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<v Speaker 10>or of her late husband for whatever reason. He could

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<v Speaker 10>have copied her documents from the safe. Of course, he

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<v Speaker 10>might have had some advantage of her going to Bali

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<v Speaker 10>or not. I don't know. It just struck me as

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<v Speaker 10>a bit odd when you have one hundred thousand euros

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<v Speaker 10>already to go to all the trouble.

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<v Speaker 1>It does seem odd to take Charlot to Bali if

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<v Speaker 1>he already has the money. But perhaps there was something

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<v Speaker 1>else he wanted. Perhaps it was a way to delay

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<v Speaker 1>her reporting him to authorities, leaving her abandoned in a

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<v Speaker 1>foreign country, having defend for herself and find her own

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<v Speaker 1>way home. Like us, Tom Yannick and Peter want to

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<v Speaker 1>know what's happening with the inquest. While with made inquiries

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<v Speaker 1>with the Coroner's office, at this stage we still don't know.

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<v Speaker 10>Maybe a stupid question.

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<v Speaker 12>Is it an option that we passed the numbers of

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<v Speaker 12>gy Len and Charlotte to the to the prosecutor, or,

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<v Speaker 12>to the to the police, the Australian police, or is

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<v Speaker 12>it not an option or.

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<v Speaker 10>K Len's I think already? I think. I think gi

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<v Speaker 10>Len's daughter and lawyers in contact with the Australian Police.

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<v Speaker 1>As far as I Tom Yannick and Peter are sure

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<v Speaker 1>as chase up any leads they find around the other

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<v Speaker 1>stories they have to pursue.

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<v Speaker 13>I also know of another store that apparently had issues

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<v Speaker 13>with Rick Blum, so that's we've been seeing. I'm planning

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<v Speaker 13>on talking to the owners of that store as well

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<v Speaker 13>in Luxembourg and maybe something else can can image from

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<v Speaker 13>that foot. Yeah, we'll keep the update at there's a

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<v Speaker 13>few potential leads, so I'm sure that we will discover more.

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<v Speaker 6>Another thing. We are also in talks with podcast groups

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<v Speaker 6>overseas looking at ways to have The Lady Vanishes translated

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<v Speaker 6>into other languages across parts of Europe. But it's very

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<v Speaker 6>early stages, and Sally is making progress on her plan

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<v Speaker 6>to set up a support group for victims.

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<v Speaker 1>Hello, Hello, how are you?

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<v Speaker 6>She and Allison met up recently with Janet Oldenburg. The

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<v Speaker 6>first discussion topic is Peter's article from Belgium.

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<v Speaker 5>So they're all, well, when I did my report in

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<v Speaker 5>the first place back in two thousand, it was it

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<v Speaker 5>was only twenty five alis names. Yes at the inquest

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<v Speaker 5>and he was about thirty ars or more and now yeah,

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<v Speaker 5>the same now, so yeah, he certainly cropped up. And

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<v Speaker 5>I had to laugh at the inquest because he was asked,

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<v Speaker 5>why have you got so many earlies names? And you

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<v Speaker 5>just shrugged his shoulders and then he said, well to

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<v Speaker 5>get away from my part. But little does he realize

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<v Speaker 5>it was just me at the whole world knows now.

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<v Speaker 14>So plast is catching up.

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<v Speaker 4>It makes me say, looking at my mum.

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<v Speaker 5>And that photo, yeah, I know, I know so many

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<v Speaker 5>good people from behind the scenes helping.

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<v Speaker 14>I'm glad.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm glad.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh you are okay, like you you know, you met

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<v Speaker 4>him as well. And I'm glad that I was thinking

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<v Speaker 4>about this the other day, and I'm glad by me

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<v Speaker 4>pushing and pushing, pushing, going something's wrong. I know something

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<v Speaker 4>it's not right here, or found people like yourself and

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<v Speaker 4>like Gislaine and Jeanette down in Sydney, and multiple people

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<v Speaker 4>who have come forward now. And you know, when the

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<v Speaker 4>police didn't really take you guys too seriously, I feel,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, like you go and you do your statement

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<v Speaker 4>and then that's just sort of all that happens. Some

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<v Speaker 4>people like myself didn't even get to give a statement

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<v Speaker 4>until twenty two years later.

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<v Speaker 1>You've got other.

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<v Speaker 14>Women who have just been fogged off as oh it

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<v Speaker 14>was just you know, you're being silly.

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<v Speaker 4>And you know, I'm happy that I've had a chance

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<v Speaker 4>by telling my story and finding everybody that everyone's had

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<v Speaker 4>a chance to tell their story of what happened, because

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<v Speaker 4>it's not a nice thing to happen, No, regardless of

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<v Speaker 4>what level it is, it's not nice, you know.

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<v Speaker 5>Well, when the I realized he'd stolen things, my deeds again,

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<v Speaker 5>I called in the police. But while I was waiting

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<v Speaker 5>for them, I wrote down everything that we'd been, what

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<v Speaker 5>was said, where we traveled, what time the planes everything,

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<v Speaker 5>and so bothered, Hell is that that you did that?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 5>And then policeman went back to the station and then

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<v Speaker 5>he said, oh and he rang me up and he said, oh,

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<v Speaker 5>detectives interested in your case.

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<v Speaker 14>Yeah, well but they didn't pursue much from there.

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<v Speaker 7>They did that.

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<v Speaker 5>They just took your statement. And that's what.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, like, there's just no follow through and this

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<v Speaker 4>is where we're at now doing their thing.

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<v Speaker 2>So I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I thought the same. I went to the police.

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<v Speaker 12>I thought that she would.

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<v Speaker 14>Actually do things.

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<v Speaker 4>And then I got a call a week later saying

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<v Speaker 4>that they'd spoken to my mum and she didn't want

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<v Speaker 4>anyone to know where.

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<v Speaker 5>She was or what she was doing.

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<v Speaker 14>So as a twenty four year old, I was like, Okay,

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<v Speaker 14>what do I do now?

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<v Speaker 5>And you know, so I passed it over to.

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<v Speaker 4>My grandfather, and said, what's your advice? Like I still

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<v Speaker 4>felt quite young, and I'm like not very knowledgeable in

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<v Speaker 4>the world of the web, the world, and you know,

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<v Speaker 4>I've certainly learned a lot of course.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, yes, you believe though that this man is capable

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<v Speaker 1>of what we now have found out.

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<v Speaker 5>Well, I tend to believe what's in there because it's

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<v Speaker 5>come to light with everything, and some of it correlates

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<v Speaker 5>to Okay, the trip to Barley, for instance, that he

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<v Speaker 5>undertake me to give me a nice time and all this,

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<v Speaker 5>but he kept going off making home calls and things,

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<v Speaker 5>and so I didn't see much of him at at

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<v Speaker 5>the time. And what did he do in Amsterdam as well?

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<v Speaker 4>And what did you think about when you heard that

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<v Speaker 4>he got somebody else to dye their hair blonde?

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, although I didn't die blonde, but yeah, because I

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<v Speaker 5>went to the hairdressers he wanted me to get, you know,

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<v Speaker 5>and she couldn't do it because it was too much,

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<v Speaker 5>too dark, because I was a dark ground.

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<v Speaker 14>Then that I instantly thought of you when I heard

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<v Speaker 14>Charlotte we're calling her when she mentioned that.

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<v Speaker 4>She had her hair dyed blond and he'd booked her

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<v Speaker 4>in and then her son actually said that when he

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<v Speaker 4>went picked her up from the airport, she was so

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<v Speaker 4>unrecognizable with her hair, he didn't recognize her.

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<v Speaker 14>Oh, dear, that's quite telling, don't you think.

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<v Speaker 5>Like, yes, yes, it's a pattern, definitely a pattern.

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<v Speaker 1>Us Is there any suspicionist why he's getting I don't know.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't be making assumptions, you know, like we don't

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<v Speaker 4>know for sure. He'd be the person to answer that question,

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<v Speaker 4>but it seems a bit odd to me, especially with

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<v Speaker 4>Janet's situation where she was getting a new passport.

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<v Speaker 14>Seems a bit weird to me that somebody might try

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<v Speaker 14>and get you to change your hair color.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, I don't know, Like if you actually think about

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<v Speaker 4>it as well, if you are changing your appearance and

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<v Speaker 4>going to a different country and then into Paula trying

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<v Speaker 4>to find you, if you're missing very old.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you know what I mean?

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<v Speaker 4>Like this?

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<v Speaker 9>Yeah, when I did my.

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<v Speaker 5>Report, and of course one of the things you said,

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<v Speaker 5>when I was over in Hope bringing at my cousins

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<v Speaker 5>and he was supposed to ring, and then he didn't,

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<v Speaker 5>and then the following day he did and he said, oh,

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<v Speaker 5>I said, how are you? He said, oh, oh, not

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<v Speaker 5>very well. I'm in the hospital, I said, where, He said,

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<v Speaker 5>lil And, and they'd been bashed up with guys with

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<v Speaker 5>six baseball bats and everything was stolen, which meant, I

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<v Speaker 5>think in his bag, in his briefcasey type bag. But

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<v Speaker 5>it was a cross one. And and actually when I

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<v Speaker 5>did the report to the police, they actually checked out

1:16:05.080 --> 1:16:08.160
<v Speaker 5>into pol and there was nobody in the hospitals by

1:16:08.280 --> 1:16:14.000
<v Speaker 5>that name in Little mm hmm, So that was a lie.

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<v Speaker 15>Yeah, there's a lot of lies, a lot of just

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<v Speaker 15>Jimmy rock up to your house like when you were home,

1:16:22.040 --> 1:16:24.080
<v Speaker 15>and he didn't have any didn't look like he'd been

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<v Speaker 15>hit with six faces.

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<v Speaker 5>He came up the driveway in his singlet trailers and

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<v Speaker 5>singlet and in his usual basebook cat Facebook cat white one,

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<v Speaker 5>and he he got to the driver all these glasses

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<v Speaker 5>by the way were just you know, a bit broken

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<v Speaker 5>at the side, you know, to give the impression, and

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<v Speaker 5>I reckon, you know, and I said, oh, you know,

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<v Speaker 5>only he got there, stopped and went like this sight

1:17:01.520 --> 1:17:07.120
<v Speaker 5>and then I in retrospect with now from what I

1:17:07.280 --> 1:17:12.479
<v Speaker 5>know later you later, Yeah, it was just oh my goodness,

1:17:12.560 --> 1:17:18.240
<v Speaker 5>I can't get no house. And and yeah, but I

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<v Speaker 5>think even the barrister the inquest tweet that he was

1:17:21.920 --> 1:17:24.759
<v Speaker 5>there to off my house. He thought I was still away,

1:17:26.040 --> 1:17:28.040
<v Speaker 5>and he dropped in at my friends as right, he

1:17:28.120 --> 1:17:31.479
<v Speaker 5>dropped in at my friends because one day when I

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<v Speaker 5>had to drive into Ballina and my friend, I just said, oh,

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<v Speaker 5>I just opted in at my friends of the road

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<v Speaker 5>and he you know, my friend saw him and she

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<v Speaker 5>just said to me it was a funny thing, she said,

1:17:47.280 --> 1:17:51.559
<v Speaker 5>She said, be careful, and I introduced him. I said, oh,

1:17:51.600 --> 1:17:55.280
<v Speaker 5>this is rick car. He didn't get out and so

1:17:55.600 --> 1:18:00.280
<v Speaker 5>therefore and it was funny words. But he knew. Did

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<v Speaker 5>I drop keys into her? Always if I was going

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<v Speaker 5>away anywhere, I dropped a set of keys in case

1:18:07.160 --> 1:18:12.040
<v Speaker 5>I lost the keys or something like that. And I

1:18:12.200 --> 1:18:15.000
<v Speaker 5>said to her later after I twigged everything and all this,

1:18:15.120 --> 1:18:17.680
<v Speaker 5>and I said to it over, oh, did he did

1:18:17.720 --> 1:18:19.920
<v Speaker 5>he call in to see you or anything? She's because

1:18:19.920 --> 1:18:26.880
<v Speaker 5>she told me he said where's jan And she said, well,

1:18:26.960 --> 1:18:30.720
<v Speaker 5>she's home. And I said, what was his expression like?

1:18:31.560 --> 1:18:35.240
<v Speaker 5>And she said, oh, it was just sort of so

1:18:35.360 --> 1:18:38.400
<v Speaker 5>I just rolled his eyes, you know, because he doesn't

1:18:38.439 --> 1:18:43.599
<v Speaker 5>show much expression. He's very cool, calm, and yeah.

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<v Speaker 9>This is the first time you mean, jan can you

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<v Speaker 9>tell me about how you're feeling. This is Janet obviously

1:18:50.240 --> 1:18:53.599
<v Speaker 9>had very similar movements as.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I'm extremely grateful to you and very touched that

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<v Speaker 4>you guys actually were brave enough to come and speak

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<v Speaker 4>at the inquest and say your peace and say your

1:19:08.000 --> 1:19:12.680
<v Speaker 4>memory of what's happened, because it's really giving my mum

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<v Speaker 4>a voice as well. And I think for you particularly

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<v Speaker 4>out of everyone, and now Galaine, who we've just met

1:19:20.000 --> 1:19:23.120
<v Speaker 4>and we've just found out, the three of you in

1:19:23.320 --> 1:19:28.520
<v Speaker 4>litting my mum all had very similar situations. So the traveling,

1:19:28.920 --> 1:19:31.960
<v Speaker 4>like Jonie and I sat there with a map and

1:19:32.040 --> 1:19:35.800
<v Speaker 4>actually pinpointed exactly where you went and exactly where my

1:19:35.960 --> 1:19:36.920
<v Speaker 4>mum went, and it's.

1:19:36.800 --> 1:19:38.040
<v Speaker 5>Pretty much in reverse.

1:19:39.120 --> 1:19:42.920
<v Speaker 4>So just little tiny things like that have given me

1:19:43.040 --> 1:19:46.240
<v Speaker 4>an opportunity, whereas four years before I go before we

1:19:46.320 --> 1:19:50.080
<v Speaker 4>did the podcast and people were starting to take interest

1:19:50.200 --> 1:19:53.599
<v Speaker 4>in what I was saying because for years I kept

1:19:53.680 --> 1:19:55.960
<v Speaker 4>telling people. People knew, my friends knew that my mum

1:19:56.120 --> 1:19:58.360
<v Speaker 4>was missing, and I would tell them what had happened.

1:19:58.400 --> 1:20:01.120
<v Speaker 4>And you know, there's been quite a bit of tragedy

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<v Speaker 4>with my brother and you know, all that sort of

1:20:04.000 --> 1:20:07.000
<v Speaker 4>jazz as well. And I think so many of my

1:20:07.080 --> 1:20:09.640
<v Speaker 4>friends were like, wow, this is a book. You know,

1:20:09.720 --> 1:20:11.680
<v Speaker 4>you need to tell your story because this is I

1:20:11.840 --> 1:20:14.200
<v Speaker 4>just can't believe what you're telling me, Like it just

1:20:14.280 --> 1:20:16.840
<v Speaker 4>doesn't make any sense. And I always just had a

1:20:16.920 --> 1:20:19.400
<v Speaker 4>gut feeling that after seeing the man in the car

1:20:19.520 --> 1:20:23.160
<v Speaker 4>with her at the McDonald's, I just knew something wasn't

1:20:23.240 --> 1:20:25.240
<v Speaker 4>quite right when she didn't come back. And then I

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<v Speaker 4>found out about the name change not thirteen years later.

1:20:30.360 --> 1:20:33.240
<v Speaker 4>So it's been a very long road for me. But

1:20:34.720 --> 1:20:37.280
<v Speaker 4>you know, since we've done the podcast and all the

1:20:37.400 --> 1:20:40.920
<v Speaker 4>people have come about saying, oh my gosh, I'm so

1:20:41.200 --> 1:20:43.599
<v Speaker 4>happy that I've been able to tell my story because

1:20:44.200 --> 1:20:47.479
<v Speaker 4>we found you, we found Glaying, we found Jeanette. By

1:20:47.600 --> 1:20:49.880
<v Speaker 4>doing that, and people are actually sitting up, people who

1:20:49.960 --> 1:20:53.400
<v Speaker 4>needed to are now sitting up and listening to what

1:20:53.560 --> 1:20:57.479
<v Speaker 4>I'm trying to say in that something. Something has happened

1:20:57.520 --> 1:21:00.519
<v Speaker 4>to my mum. Something is wrong with this pitch. So

1:21:01.439 --> 1:21:03.200
<v Speaker 4>we need to find her, and we need to find

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<v Speaker 4>out what's happened to her, not just for my benefit,

1:21:07.360 --> 1:21:12.680
<v Speaker 4>but for my kids, my husband, her family. You know,

1:21:12.840 --> 1:21:15.600
<v Speaker 4>I'm doing this for a multitude of people and a

1:21:15.680 --> 1:21:19.040
<v Speaker 4>multitude of reasons. So so I am really grateful for

1:21:19.120 --> 1:21:24.760
<v Speaker 4>you talking to us and you know, becoming part of the.

1:21:24.840 --> 1:21:29.439
<v Speaker 14>Family that we've now created. Yeah, through the Blady Vanishers.

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<v Speaker 5>So what's next.

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<v Speaker 1>An opportunity to team up all these victims of love.

1:21:37.680 --> 1:21:38.439
<v Speaker 2>This man.

1:21:39.800 --> 1:21:43.400
<v Speaker 1>Has touched so many lives in the worst possible way.

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<v Speaker 5>Of course.

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<v Speaker 14>Well, I think it would be very healing to personally.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, I'm hearing more things even today yesterday about

1:21:53.640 --> 1:21:57.720
<v Speaker 4>how people having a voice is healing part of the

1:21:57.880 --> 1:22:01.200
<v Speaker 4>journey for them. You know, they've they've said their piece

1:22:01.240 --> 1:22:03.479
<v Speaker 4>at the beginning, they've been pushed to the side, or

1:22:03.520 --> 1:22:06.920
<v Speaker 4>it's just been forgotten about. And you know, it's not

1:22:07.040 --> 1:22:09.560
<v Speaker 4>a nice thing, not a nice thing what happened to

1:22:09.640 --> 1:22:12.240
<v Speaker 4>you and to the others as well, you know, like

1:22:13.520 --> 1:22:15.760
<v Speaker 4>I don't know what's happened to my mum. That's the

1:22:15.840 --> 1:22:18.040
<v Speaker 4>scary part about it and the sad part about it,

1:22:18.160 --> 1:22:22.320
<v Speaker 4>and that's why we keep digging. But you know, it's

1:22:22.400 --> 1:22:24.880
<v Speaker 4>not nice what's happened. So I think it would be

1:22:25.040 --> 1:22:27.320
<v Speaker 4>very healing. Like I've wanted to meet with you for

1:22:27.439 --> 1:22:32.559
<v Speaker 4>such a long time and just say thank you for you. Yeah,

1:22:33.360 --> 1:22:35.240
<v Speaker 4>and we're just fortunate that we both live here in

1:22:35.320 --> 1:22:38.240
<v Speaker 4>Brisbane so we've had a chance to catch up. But

1:22:39.160 --> 1:22:40.760
<v Speaker 4>you know, I think Jonie even said to me the

1:22:40.840 --> 1:22:43.639
<v Speaker 4>other day how great it would be to get everyone

1:22:43.760 --> 1:22:47.040
<v Speaker 4>together in some sort of forum and just you know,

1:22:47.240 --> 1:22:50.439
<v Speaker 4>not even a forum that sounds too fabricated, but let's

1:22:50.960 --> 1:22:53.400
<v Speaker 4>just come in together, have a cup of tea, have

1:22:53.520 --> 1:22:57.799
<v Speaker 4>a hug and actually just you know, it's strength in numbers.

1:22:57.880 --> 1:23:02.240
<v Speaker 5>I say this a lot, Yeah, especially for you.

1:23:02.720 --> 1:23:04.960
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I've got so many people who care now, which

1:23:05.040 --> 1:23:07.959
<v Speaker 4>is really lovely because for so long outside of Chris.

1:23:08.560 --> 1:23:12.880
<v Speaker 14>And obviously yeah, there's lots of people who who care

1:23:13.040 --> 1:23:15.559
<v Speaker 14>enough and check in with me. People send me messages

1:23:15.600 --> 1:23:18.200
<v Speaker 14>even this morning thinking of you. I hope you're okay.

1:23:18.280 --> 1:23:20.280
<v Speaker 4>Gosh, this must be crazy roll the post of few.

1:23:20.400 --> 1:23:23.599
<v Speaker 4>But it's just nice to know that people do care.

1:23:24.320 --> 1:23:27.640
<v Speaker 4>And it's also the embarrassment. I mean, we have that

1:23:28.360 --> 1:23:29.520
<v Speaker 4>certain Ginett.

1:23:29.360 --> 1:23:35.519
<v Speaker 14>And Mane, but also now Benique and Yeah, and.

1:23:35.840 --> 1:23:40.759
<v Speaker 16>I mean everyone's indicated, which is great, but that group,

1:23:40.840 --> 1:23:43.280
<v Speaker 16>don't you think, as you say, it's a healing group,

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<v Speaker 16>but you know it's something that might help to be

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<v Speaker 16>able to talk about.

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<v Speaker 1>Obviously, Gilaine only speaks French, and I think Charlotte does too.

1:23:51.960 --> 1:23:54.920
<v Speaker 9>But if we have interpretre, is it something that you

1:23:54.960 --> 1:23:58.000
<v Speaker 9>can do a sort of zoom chatter or even that's

1:23:58.040 --> 1:23:59.960
<v Speaker 9>something that you can patch up.

1:24:00.160 --> 1:24:02.200
<v Speaker 5>I don't know, just to say where it's happening.

1:24:03.360 --> 1:24:05.080
<v Speaker 14>Yeah, yeah, well I hope to.

1:24:06.000 --> 1:24:07.240
<v Speaker 5>I want to go to Belgium.

1:24:08.920 --> 1:24:15.200
<v Speaker 4>I've told everybody that from funds that were created, which

1:24:15.240 --> 1:24:18.960
<v Speaker 4>I feel very blessed but very embarrassed at the same time,

1:24:19.080 --> 1:24:23.400
<v Speaker 4>that that will happen. But I just said, maybe Jonie

1:24:23.439 --> 1:24:26.920
<v Speaker 4>and I will go together and we will actually go

1:24:27.080 --> 1:24:30.240
<v Speaker 4>and meet these people and meet the boys over in

1:24:30.320 --> 1:24:32.960
<v Speaker 4>Belgium who have been helping tell the story and you know,

1:24:33.720 --> 1:24:35.760
<v Speaker 4>live and breathe it now over there as well, and

1:24:35.960 --> 1:24:38.000
<v Speaker 4>just to say thank you and just to meet them

1:24:38.160 --> 1:24:38.639
<v Speaker 4>in person.

1:24:38.800 --> 1:24:42.880
<v Speaker 14>And you know, I think that's healing for me through

1:24:42.960 --> 1:24:44.040
<v Speaker 14>this process.

1:24:44.880 --> 1:24:50.280
<v Speaker 4>Because I definitely feel like I know what's happened to

1:24:50.439 --> 1:24:54.560
<v Speaker 4>my mum in my heart. But yeah, I think that

1:24:54.600 --> 1:24:56.200
<v Speaker 4>would be nice. I mean, it would be nice if

1:24:56.200 --> 1:24:58.759
<v Speaker 4>we could all get together, but obviously it's hard when.

1:24:58.640 --> 1:25:03.000
<v Speaker 5>People across the world as well. That's something that with

1:25:03.160 --> 1:25:07.080
<v Speaker 5>a group of victims. Yes, yes, I'd be in that yes,

1:25:07.960 --> 1:25:09.679
<v Speaker 5>how do you another wone?

1:25:09.760 --> 1:25:09.920
<v Speaker 2>Now?

1:25:10.280 --> 1:25:17.519
<v Speaker 5>Oh great, I'm very surprised that everything that he's done,

1:25:17.960 --> 1:25:20.800
<v Speaker 5>he's a great manipulator. All right, I'll agree to that.

1:25:22.720 --> 1:25:26.240
<v Speaker 5>But I just got on with life and whatnot. But

1:25:26.360 --> 1:25:30.200
<v Speaker 5>I did go through my mind at times I wonder,

1:25:30.320 --> 1:25:33.960
<v Speaker 5>what's you know, he's going to be caught and all

1:25:34.080 --> 1:25:37.519
<v Speaker 5>this sort of thing, but my life. I did move

1:25:37.600 --> 1:25:40.560
<v Speaker 5>from New South Wales. I thought, no, I needed to

1:25:40.640 --> 1:25:43.000
<v Speaker 5>get out of there. After that, I feel a lot

1:25:43.040 --> 1:25:48.240
<v Speaker 5>stronger of a sort of doing that report. It's a

1:25:48.360 --> 1:25:54.360
<v Speaker 5>sixteen page report. So I'm glad I did. That's are

1:25:54.479 --> 1:25:59.080
<v Speaker 5>to empowerment. It's like an empowerment and the should put

1:25:59.120 --> 1:26:03.519
<v Speaker 5>it there and hopefully who's going to stop and help others? Yes, yes,

1:26:03.600 --> 1:26:07.519
<v Speaker 5>if I can in this all this this has happened

1:26:07.560 --> 1:26:10.840
<v Speaker 5>and that yeah, And to talk to those people just

1:26:11.000 --> 1:26:15.680
<v Speaker 5>like it's all calming down for them and understanding and

1:26:16.160 --> 1:26:22.160
<v Speaker 5>all the love surrounding everything that's healing. Some of them,

1:26:22.720 --> 1:26:30.000
<v Speaker 5>like Janet, seem very shamed. You don't be ashamed defeating yourself,

1:26:30.560 --> 1:26:35.760
<v Speaker 5>be strong, speak peace and just know that you're going

1:26:35.800 --> 1:26:36.760
<v Speaker 5>to do now, Like.

1:26:37.000 --> 1:26:39.680
<v Speaker 4>For those that way that are feeling still a bit

1:26:39.840 --> 1:26:42.080
<v Speaker 4>like that, I think, you know, they need to know

1:26:42.280 --> 1:26:44.160
<v Speaker 4>that we are here and we are strong, and.

1:26:45.720 --> 1:26:48.280
<v Speaker 5>Oh, yeah, you know, we've got a voice to Yeah.

1:26:48.520 --> 1:26:50.200
<v Speaker 5>I think I would have felt worse if you'd have

1:26:50.280 --> 1:26:52.640
<v Speaker 5>managed to get my house, I think. But there's a

1:26:52.680 --> 1:26:55.120
<v Speaker 5>lot of women out there that they just had a

1:26:55.160 --> 1:26:56.880
<v Speaker 5>lot of money stolen from them.

1:26:57.560 --> 1:27:01.200
<v Speaker 14>Yeah, you know, and I think you've got locked at

1:27:01.280 --> 1:27:01.439
<v Speaker 14>with that.

1:27:02.320 --> 1:27:04.680
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, that part of it. The detective of the day

1:27:04.720 --> 1:27:10.040
<v Speaker 5>did say, oh, you got off lightly to shame. He

1:27:10.240 --> 1:27:16.880
<v Speaker 5>doesn't show looking at the inquest. He just shrugs everything off. Oh,

1:27:16.960 --> 1:27:20.519
<v Speaker 5>it's just an every day occurrence to him. Oh no

1:27:20.720 --> 1:27:23.960
<v Speaker 5>he didn't do it. Oh no, no he did.

1:27:24.320 --> 1:27:24.360
<v Speaker 2>No.

1:27:24.960 --> 1:27:30.559
<v Speaker 5>He's not even remorseful at all. Very cruel man mentally.

1:27:31.920 --> 1:27:36.280
<v Speaker 4>Well, I don't have any updates for anybody at this point.

1:27:36.479 --> 1:27:41.679
<v Speaker 4>It's I would assume, based on what we were told

1:27:41.720 --> 1:27:45.240
<v Speaker 4>in November, that they will potentially be doing more investigation.

1:27:45.640 --> 1:27:49.439
<v Speaker 4>I mean I would I would hope, realistically to make

1:27:49.479 --> 1:27:52.439
<v Speaker 4>a decision on whether someone is alive or dead, that

1:27:52.800 --> 1:27:57.000
<v Speaker 4>we would potentially have all those witnesses give statements talk

1:27:57.080 --> 1:27:59.080
<v Speaker 4>to the coroner, because I want the coroner to have

1:27:59.160 --> 1:28:00.920
<v Speaker 4>all the information possibly camp.

1:28:01.000 --> 1:28:01.960
<v Speaker 10>Yes, Last.

1:28:03.640 --> 1:28:08.240
<v Speaker 5>Love us. Well, yes, I'd like him to be didn't

1:28:08.240 --> 1:28:11.439
<v Speaker 5>put in jail and lived there for the rest of

1:28:11.520 --> 1:28:15.479
<v Speaker 5>his life. Getting out's too good for him. I mean,

1:28:15.520 --> 1:28:18.840
<v Speaker 5>I don't need to be nasty, but of course I've

1:28:18.880 --> 1:28:23.400
<v Speaker 5>got to find some evidence and all this business with

1:28:23.600 --> 1:28:25.120
<v Speaker 5>poisons and stuff.

1:28:26.720 --> 1:28:31.559
<v Speaker 1>But he's given how much evidence of all at the very.

1:28:31.600 --> 1:28:35.360
<v Speaker 4>Least, even if you take my mum out of the picture.

1:28:35.479 --> 1:28:37.920
<v Speaker 4>Let's say, let's just park Marian being missing over in

1:28:38.040 --> 1:28:38.800
<v Speaker 4>this side.

1:28:38.560 --> 1:28:40.120
<v Speaker 5>Of the park.

1:28:42.000 --> 1:28:45.439
<v Speaker 4>You've got a situation where we've been able to prove

1:28:46.360 --> 1:28:49.439
<v Speaker 4>lies like Renoff Pubs is a perfect example. He sat

1:28:49.479 --> 1:28:51.720
<v Speaker 4>there and said point blank he had nothing to do

1:28:51.840 --> 1:28:55.600
<v Speaker 4>with that company. Yet his name's all over the documents

1:28:55.640 --> 1:28:59.639
<v Speaker 4>that we were able to prevent provide the court. There's

1:29:00.000 --> 1:29:04.320
<v Speaker 4>but there's links to Alona kinsell or her applications coming

1:29:04.360 --> 1:29:07.879
<v Speaker 4>to Australia was the address of and of pubs in Belgium.

1:29:09.160 --> 1:29:12.439
<v Speaker 4>You know, so I struggle a lot with That's one

1:29:12.520 --> 1:29:15.280
<v Speaker 4>example of probably five that I could go off the

1:29:15.320 --> 1:29:20.639
<v Speaker 4>top of my head. That frustrates me because regardless of anything,

1:29:21.120 --> 1:29:23.720
<v Speaker 4>that's a purge charge in my opinion. And then you've

1:29:23.800 --> 1:29:27.800
<v Speaker 4>also got the citizenship application that doesn't sit well with

1:29:27.920 --> 1:29:32.240
<v Speaker 4>me because I have seen handwritten documents out of the

1:29:32.640 --> 1:29:36.519
<v Speaker 4>National Archives file that say that he should have been

1:29:37.080 --> 1:29:41.639
<v Speaker 4>convicted under the Citizenship Act because he actually fraudulently filled

1:29:41.680 --> 1:29:45.200
<v Speaker 4>in his citizenship application by ticking that he had never

1:29:45.280 --> 1:29:45.920
<v Speaker 4>been in prison.

1:29:51.520 --> 1:29:54.400
<v Speaker 6>Many of you have been asking about the citizenship granted

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<v Speaker 6>to Rick Bloom or Frederick de Hevery in nineteen seventy six.

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<v Speaker 6>In a previous epis pisode, we detailed how he lied

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<v Speaker 6>to immigration officials about his criminal record, and we had

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<v Speaker 6>a legal expert explained that there is no statute of

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<v Speaker 6>limitations to prevent authorities from revoking his citizenship. The details

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<v Speaker 6>of this deception are contained in the National Archives material

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<v Speaker 6>referencing Ritbloom and included in the police brief of evidence

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<v Speaker 6>to the coroner. It took me days to sift through

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<v Speaker 6>the three and a half thousand pages on the aging

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<v Speaker 6>laptop provided by the Coroner's office as they kept watch

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<v Speaker 6>over me. It was startling to read that in April

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<v Speaker 6>nineteen eighty, the Immigration Department provided a full brief on

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<v Speaker 6>Frederick A. Ker Willie's criminal history and path to citizenship

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<v Speaker 6>for the Federal Minister of Immigration, asking whether his citizenship

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<v Speaker 6>should be withdrawn. Then the Federal Police wrote to the

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<v Speaker 6>Immigration Department in August nineteen eighty asking why a man

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<v Speaker 6>with his criminal history had been granted citizenship in the

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<v Speaker 6>first place, and even more surprising to read that in

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<v Speaker 6>nineteen eighty one, the Department provided written advice that Frederick

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<v Speaker 6>quote appears obtained citizenship by deceit. Prosecution proposed imagine if

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<v Speaker 6>Ric's citizenship had been revoked, marying Barter would likely be

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<v Speaker 6>alive or at least with her family to day. To

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<v Speaker 6>add to the frustration, neighbors Ingrid Nwbath and Martin Mitzus

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<v Speaker 6>told us last year they contacted emigration officials in two

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<v Speaker 6>thousand and eleven after becoming deeply suspicious of Rick and Diane.

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<v Speaker 6>They were told immigration officials would investigate, but we now

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<v Speaker 6>know nothing was done because all the information they needed

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<v Speaker 6>was in their own files. We sent questions to the

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<v Speaker 6>Home Affairs Department asking if they were investigating Rick Bloom's

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<v Speaker 6>citizenship and if they would deport him if it is revoked,

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<v Speaker 6>and how many cases there have been where the Department

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<v Speaker 6>has pursued a prosecution against a person for lying to

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<v Speaker 6>obtain citizenship. Here is what they told US.

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<v Speaker 17>The Department does not comment on individual cases or allegations.

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<v Speaker 17>The Department takes all reports of fraud and criminality very seriously.

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<v Speaker 17>All reports we receive are considered in light of legislative

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<v Speaker 17>provisions in place at the time and acted on where appropriate.

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<v Speaker 6>We hope that means they are considering the status of

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<v Speaker 6>rich citizenship. We can tell you that since nineteen forty

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<v Speaker 6>eight there have been sixty nine revocations of Australian citizenship,

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<v Speaker 6>forty eight for serious offenses and twenty one for migration

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<v Speaker 6>citizenship fraud. A person found to have obtained their citizenship

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<v Speaker 6>by fraudulent means, even if it was fifty years ago,

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<v Speaker 6>can have their status revoked and given an ex citizen visa,

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<v Speaker 6>which means they can stay here, but if they leave

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<v Speaker 6>the country they cannot return. Now back to the support.

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<v Speaker 4>Group, we come back to government problems where you know,

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<v Speaker 4>I just don't know why that action has.

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<v Speaker 5>Not been taken.

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<v Speaker 14>Is it because he's eighty three and they don't want

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<v Speaker 14>to They think that I've got I have a lot

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<v Speaker 14>that I'd like to say about.

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<v Speaker 4>Perhaps so the fact that we're still before the coroner,

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<v Speaker 4>and I'm very grateful to her for you know, doing

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<v Speaker 4>a thorough job. Is still pursuing, you know, answers, and

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<v Speaker 4>I just hope that everyone working for my mum essentially

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<v Speaker 4>to find her. He's very conscious of the fact that

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<v Speaker 4>this is not over yet and there's new information that

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<v Speaker 4>keeps coming through, so we need to keep pushing for answers.

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<v Speaker 14>And we get a lot of people commenting that he

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<v Speaker 14>should be.

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<v Speaker 4>Extradined back to Belgium, and you know, that's that's a

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<v Speaker 4>very difficult thing to do. It's very there's a lot

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<v Speaker 4>of red tape and you know, politics behind that sort

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<v Speaker 4>of thing.

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<v Speaker 14>And essentially he's here, you know, my mum is here.

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<v Speaker 14>My mum's never left the country again.

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<v Speaker 4>So I need him to be here and helped tell

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<v Speaker 4>us what more he knows about, you know, him coming

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<v Speaker 4>back into the country and being around the same time

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<v Speaker 4>as my mum. And there are some firm timelines that

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<v Speaker 4>we've been able to establish, and we have found people

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<v Speaker 4>that weren't found by others, which we're hoping will actually

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<v Speaker 4>help the coroner.

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<v Speaker 6>He catch up with Janet and Sally was winding up now,

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<v Speaker 6>but not before Janet reflected on why she ever trusted

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<v Speaker 6>Rick Bloom. Her sentiments eerily similar to those of Monique Cornelius.

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<v Speaker 5>It makes me wonder world what I saw in him

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<v Speaker 5>in my first but I think as he came across

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<v Speaker 5>so caring and loving and master manipulator. Yes, oh he is.

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<v Speaker 18>Definitely likely and a way of saying things that make

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<v Speaker 18>you think, oh okay, it's not right there.

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<v Speaker 5>So you had a way of getting through that. You're

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<v Speaker 5>the one that made the decision, you know, I thought

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<v Speaker 5>about it.

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