WEBVTT - The Debt

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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 six years.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, no sign that she was going to vanish.

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<v Speaker 3>That's for sure.

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<v Speaker 1>The bizarre circumstances surrounding her disappearance, I'm.

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<v Speaker 4>Not sure if it was intentional or if there's something

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<v Speaker 4>more foul afoot.

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<v Speaker 5>If you could imagine a teacher coming straight from say

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<v Speaker 5>little house on the prairie to the eighties, that was

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<v Speaker 5>Marian Barter.

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<v Speaker 6>What I say, whether you find Marian Barter dead or alive,

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<v Speaker 6>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 1>Something had happened, Something has happened to make her leave.

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<v Speaker 4>I am one hundred percent sure, one hundred percent sure

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<v Speaker 4>that somebody knows something.

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<v Speaker 1>The lady vanishes, episode fifty two. I'm Alison Sandy and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Brian Seymour. Evelyn and the Spotlight crew are at

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<v Speaker 1>the Park to Brussels, right in the heart of the

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<v Speaker 1>capital city. Flemish folk tunes crafted by campanologists or bell

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<v Speaker 1>ringers flood the regally Landscape square every hour. The old

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<v Speaker 1>fashioned park is lined with classical statues, trees and fountains,

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<v Speaker 1>and provides views of the Royal Palace and Palais Delaination,

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<v Speaker 1>also known as the Belgian Federal Parliament. Unusual, taking pride

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<v Speaker 1>of place at the front is an imposing statue of

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<v Speaker 1>King Albert, who reigned in Belgium from nineteen oh nine

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<v Speaker 1>to nineteen thirty four, when his country was occupied by

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<v Speaker 1>German soldiers during World War I, before overseeing Belgium's postwar recovery.

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<v Speaker 1>His achieved hero status after rejecting a German ultimatum demanding

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<v Speaker 1>free passage of their troops to access French borders. Belgium

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<v Speaker 1>was invaded two days later. The former monarch credited with

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<v Speaker 1>introducing universal male suffrage, giving all men the equal right

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<v Speaker 1>to vote, regardless of wealth or station. Though Belgium was

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<v Speaker 1>one of the last European countries to give women equal

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<v Speaker 1>voting rights in nineteen forty eight, Belgium remains a very

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<v Speaker 1>patriarchal society. They elected their first female prime minister in

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<v Speaker 1>twenty nineteen. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it,

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<v Speaker 1>Belgium women are a formidable and strong force in their

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<v Speaker 1>families and society. Case in point, Gulaye Ganois, whose daughter

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<v Speaker 1>in law Alexandra offered us the use of her Brussels

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<v Speaker 1>inner city home to interview her with Glaine is Laurent

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<v Speaker 1>or Larry. Dressed in smart dark slacks, a patterned black

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<v Speaker 1>and white shirt and red blazer, the fourth right octogenarian

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<v Speaker 1>tells us exactly what she's prepared to do in this interview.

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<v Speaker 7>You you call another as a mattress.

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<v Speaker 3>All right, So Gilaine, thank you, thank you so much

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<v Speaker 3>for doing this with pleasure. It's lovely to be able

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<v Speaker 3>to talk to you, even through Larry, and just to

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<v Speaker 3>have you here. So we we appreciate it very much.

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<v Speaker 8>You know why, because I will help the person who

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<v Speaker 8>lose the mother that I is my reason.

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<v Speaker 3>Sally and the other one yes, yes, yes, the name.

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<v Speaker 3>So let's go back to the beginning. Okay, when you

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<v Speaker 3>first met Rick Blom what was his name to you?

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<v Speaker 9>Frederic?

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<v Speaker 3>He used Frederic the A A Y.

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<v Speaker 9>Yes, but he.

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<v Speaker 8>Don't say that immediately the first time he signed Frederic.

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<v Speaker 3>And did he introduce himself to you as Frederic? Yes?

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<v Speaker 3>So the whole time you knew him, you knew him

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<v Speaker 3>as Frederick.

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<v Speaker 9>Yes?

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<v Speaker 3>How did you come to meet him?

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<v Speaker 9>Basic game me?

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<v Speaker 5>I had placed an ad in a very popular newspaper

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<v Speaker 5>in Belgium. And he answered, and he wrote a letter

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<v Speaker 5>to me, was written in perfect French, a very nice letter.

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<v Speaker 3>At you placed the ad in the paper? Why because

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<v Speaker 3>you were lonely?

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<v Speaker 9>No, because persic.

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<v Speaker 5>At the time, I got very depressed. I had spent

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<v Speaker 5>some time in France helping a friend who had lost everything.

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<v Speaker 5>The house had burned down, the car had burned. I

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<v Speaker 5>spent a lot of time. I stayed a lot of

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<v Speaker 5>time in France helping that person for paperwork, getting the

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<v Speaker 5>idea again, and all kinds of official papers. But I

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<v Speaker 5>got tired of that situation. But I couldn't at the time,

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<v Speaker 5>I wasn't able to tell my kids because they would

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<v Speaker 5>have told me that it was stupid to spend my

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<v Speaker 5>time and energy doing that.

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<v Speaker 9>We should dear me Cete and mephis.

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<v Speaker 5>That person was actually not a friend. That person was

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<v Speaker 5>one of my sons. My other sons would have thought

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<v Speaker 5>that I was doing too much for that one son.

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<v Speaker 8>It's impossible. I must do that for my children. They

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<v Speaker 8>lose their father, then I stay alone to help all

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<v Speaker 8>the children. And this one was over head thirty times.

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<v Speaker 3>You were just at that stage of your life where

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<v Speaker 3>you needed someone for you well exactly, and when he

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<v Speaker 3>presented to you, you say, he wrote a beautiful letter.

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<v Speaker 3>What about when you met him, what did he tell

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<v Speaker 3>you about himself? What did he tell you? He did nothing?

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<v Speaker 9>Nothing, It don't speak from him.

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<v Speaker 3>So he kept the information very close to his chest. Yes, yes,

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<v Speaker 3>so you were in effect giving him all of your

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<v Speaker 3>information and looking back, he was he was not giving

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<v Speaker 3>you anything cool exactly, very clever. Yes. But when you

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<v Speaker 3>spent some time with him, Galaan, what did he tell

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<v Speaker 3>you that he did back in Australia? Did he say

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<v Speaker 3>he was a professional man or what did he say

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<v Speaker 3>he did?

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<v Speaker 9>Ah? I never asked that.

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<v Speaker 8>But now because you ask me that thing, I understand

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<v Speaker 8>that he has to say something to me. But I

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<v Speaker 8>did not ask him, Adelie Jean.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, he was so intelligent and so and he would

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<v Speaker 5>say nothing, probably because he understood that I was not

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<v Speaker 5>going to ask anything.

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<v Speaker 9>He causes more, Delia.

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<v Speaker 3>Did he give you the impression that he was a

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<v Speaker 3>successful man, a wealthy man? What did you think?

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<v Speaker 9>I believe? Stupidly? I believe or what he said?

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<v Speaker 3>So you believed his story?

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<v Speaker 1>Yes?

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<v Speaker 8>Always always, and after that, when I think about that,

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<v Speaker 8>I can understand.

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<v Speaker 9>Because I am not like that.

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<v Speaker 8>For instance, in France, I am no approximatively fifty years

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<v Speaker 8>in sounds of France, I know. Let me say fifteen persons,

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<v Speaker 8>no more, no more, and don't give my.

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<v Speaker 9>Something from me.

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<v Speaker 3>But you have been a successful woman. You have been

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<v Speaker 3>a business woman.

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<v Speaker 9>Yes, yes it was.

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<v Speaker 3>And you are you. You are very competent, and you've

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<v Speaker 3>been very smart.

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<v Speaker 9>I have more than five hundred.

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<v Speaker 3>Clients, five hundred insurance clients. Yes, so even now you

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<v Speaker 3>are you are essentially you are beating yourself up as

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<v Speaker 3>to why was I so stupid? Why couldn't I see

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<v Speaker 3>his lives? That's that's why, Yes, you are? You are

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<v Speaker 3>so torn by this?

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<v Speaker 5>Of course, yes, I'm beating myself up. Yes, there's a

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<v Speaker 5>reason why I was late today, because it's been twenty

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<v Speaker 5>years she passed. I think about this every day, basically.

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<v Speaker 8>Particularly during night, because first I am alone, the second

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<v Speaker 8>I can't.

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<v Speaker 3>Sleep even after all this time.

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<v Speaker 8>Yes, yes, because it took all my money. So every

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<v Speaker 8>day I have to tell my money because he asked

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<v Speaker 8>my money, but for a reason for my.

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<v Speaker 3>Children, Gilein, can I ask you, yes, how much has

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<v Speaker 3>this cost? How many dollars.

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<v Speaker 9>Dollars I can say. I can't just say roughly roughly yes.

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<v Speaker 8>In let me say if I sell all it's more No, No,

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<v Speaker 8>because I move, you know, I'm moving soon self house

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<v Speaker 8>because I sell my home in Bend.

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<v Speaker 9>So I had to to follow.

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<v Speaker 3>And did he get that money?

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<v Speaker 9>No, he does not have that money.

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<v Speaker 8>No, because at the moment he understood that we did

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<v Speaker 8>not give it, because I gathered it to buy a

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<v Speaker 8>home in France, because the sin had help before.

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<v Speaker 9>He needed that.

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<v Speaker 8>And when Frederic understood that he was away.

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<v Speaker 3>Ah, So when he realized that he could not get

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<v Speaker 3>that last bit of money from you, that's when he left.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes.

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<v Speaker 9>Absolutely, do you.

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<v Speaker 3>Not want to give the figure? I mean, can you say?

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<v Speaker 3>Are we talking a lot of money?

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<v Speaker 9>Do you fit?

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<v Speaker 5>On top of the money he took me had to

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<v Speaker 5>move and then I bought that house in France, and

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<v Speaker 5>on top of the price of the house, I had

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<v Speaker 5>to put money to renovate that house, and altogether it

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<v Speaker 5>went to two hundred or three hundred thousand euros a seasons.

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<v Speaker 5>On top of everything else. Then I had to find

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<v Speaker 5>me a place to stay when I visit my family

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<v Speaker 5>in Belgium. But I didn't have enough money anymore to

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<v Speaker 5>buy to buy an apartment directly. So I bought per

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<v Speaker 5>life annuity and I'm still paying today after all these years. Nowadays,

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<v Speaker 5>I paid nine hundred and eighteen euros every month for

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<v Speaker 5>a place where I cannot stay.

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<v Speaker 3>So what he has done has had a domino effect.

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<v Speaker 9>Exact more exact, more exactly.

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<v Speaker 3>But fair as I it has cost you around at

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<v Speaker 3>least three hundred thousand euros.

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<v Speaker 8>It may it may be more, maybe more, because well

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<v Speaker 8>it took the money to.

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<v Speaker 9>Nuvoirs.

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<v Speaker 5>He also left with the bunny that he's he said

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<v Speaker 5>he would he would put in a bank for when

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<v Speaker 5>my kids would visit, and that's around seventy thousand euros Pluse.

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<v Speaker 5>He went away with two trunks of full of objects

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<v Speaker 5>and things that I wanted for me in Australia, do Maloni.

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<v Speaker 3>So he took valuables from you as well, and you've

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<v Speaker 3>never seen them again never. Plus he took advantage of

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<v Speaker 3>the legacy that you had for your sons. Well, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>that's an awful lot of money. I mean, that's that's

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of money. No wonder that you it's to

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<v Speaker 3>keeps you awake. After seventeen years, I needed that moning. No,

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<v Speaker 3>I understand this.

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<v Speaker 8>I perceived from one of my friends. This also the

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<v Speaker 8>shoes I buy myself.

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<v Speaker 3>This also this a gift from your friends, A gift. Yes,

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<v Speaker 3>it's still very nice you look. Thank you, Jelene. Apart

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<v Speaker 3>from the financial cost, as significant as the money is,

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<v Speaker 3>what about the other cost, the emotional cost? How has

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<v Speaker 3>this changed your life?

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<v Speaker 5>At the time, I was financially at ease, had that

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<v Speaker 5>little pension. I got that little pension because my husband

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<v Speaker 5>had died. He died young, he was actually older than me,

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<v Speaker 5>and then I was making money from my own business.

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<v Speaker 5>I used to work from seven am the morning until midnight.

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<v Speaker 5>But in any case, I have always preferred to be

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<v Speaker 5>around older people because I enjoyed a conversation, the mindsets,

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<v Speaker 5>and I didn't quite appreciate younger people. And all of

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<v Speaker 5>this led to the situation afterwards.

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<v Speaker 3>When you met him, when you knew him, did he

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<v Speaker 3>ever tell you that he was married back in Australia? No, No,

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<v Speaker 3>were you shocked when you found that out?

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<v Speaker 9>I don't know pardicular.

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<v Speaker 3>He never told me he was buried. Later, when you

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<v Speaker 3>were told, what did you think?

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<v Speaker 5>Well, hard to believe. I understood that he had lied.

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<v Speaker 5>So what was the plan? What did he tell you?

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<v Speaker 9>The plan was, uh, married in Bali.

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<v Speaker 3>Married in Bali.

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<v Speaker 9>Yes, he asked me, do you know what is his O? Yes?

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<v Speaker 9>I know, don't.

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<v Speaker 1>It?

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<v Speaker 8>Don't do Balier it careers?

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, so leave here, sell up, go to Australia via Bali,

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<v Speaker 3>get married in Bali, and then get back to Australia

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<v Speaker 3>and settle in Australia as husband and wife. Yes. Well

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<v Speaker 3>that would have been difficult, wouldn't it because he was

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<v Speaker 3>already married back in Australia. But I didn't know that.

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<v Speaker 3>Incredible so so obviously everything he was telling you was

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<v Speaker 3>a lie.

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<v Speaker 8>Yes, at that moment when I understood what it happened, really,

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<v Speaker 8>I understood immediately that he was lying for whole thing.

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<v Speaker 3>To the whole thing.

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<v Speaker 9>Yes, he does not love me.

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<v Speaker 8>No, s to not because at the moment I say

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<v Speaker 8>that I lose my first boy with an accident, yes,

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<v Speaker 8>it don't do what it was necessary?

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<v Speaker 9>And at that moment I think.

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<v Speaker 3>You thought there's something funny there, there's something strange, Yes, yes,

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<v Speaker 3>because there's no emotional connection.

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<v Speaker 9>Well exactly, it.

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<v Speaker 3>Must be very embarrassing for you to tell this story.

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<v Speaker 3>Why are you doing it as brave and courageous as

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<v Speaker 3>you are. Why are you doing it? What's the reason why?

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<v Speaker 8>Maybe too well to receive help. I think because for me,

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<v Speaker 8>the loose of that child, it was clearly the same

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<v Speaker 8>face or figure lam la figure of us.

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<v Speaker 9>The same face, there's the same face.

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<v Speaker 8>It was exactly the same face, like my husband exactly.

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<v Speaker 2>Juliane is referring to the trauma of losing her two

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<v Speaker 2>year old son in an accident in the early nineteen sixties.

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<v Speaker 2>It's something that haunts her still. She has three surviving

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<v Speaker 2>sons and a daughter she adopted.

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<v Speaker 8>So still now it's more than fifty years that it happened.

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<v Speaker 9>That thing.

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<v Speaker 8>Each day I think about that two or three times

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<v Speaker 8>a day, and the night.

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<v Speaker 9>You can imagine it.

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<v Speaker 2>Juliane says when she told Bloom about the he seemed disinterested.

0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:04.879
<v Speaker 2>It was then she knew he did not care for

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<v Speaker 2>her at all.

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<v Speaker 5>Deposit plant a la police a fire the complaint to

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<v Speaker 5>the police.

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<v Speaker 3>He was so smart when I went to the.

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<v Speaker 5>Police, fire the complaint because I wanted to prevent him

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<v Speaker 5>from harming other people. And actually a few well sometime

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<v Speaker 5>before he left, he called me on the phone and

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<v Speaker 5>he said, if I ever hear from you again, you'll

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<v Speaker 5>see what happened.

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<v Speaker 3>What will happen, Sissa. So he threatened you, and at

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<v Speaker 3>that moment I replied.

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<v Speaker 9>Oh, well, to Sutrich.

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<v Speaker 5>Give me back everything you took from me, and he

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<v Speaker 5>said I did not take anything.

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<v Speaker 3>Did that threat scare you?

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<v Speaker 9>No?

0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:53.359
<v Speaker 3>No, because I can't be scared.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm not the kind of woman that can be scared

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<v Speaker 5>by this kind of threat coming from a swindler.

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<v Speaker 3>Was he trying to intimidate you too?

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<v Speaker 5>He even said that he would tell everything to one

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<v Speaker 5>of my daughters in law. He said he had recorded everything.

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<v Speaker 5>But of course I could not be scared of anything

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<v Speaker 5>like that. But he went to the police, yes, and

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<v Speaker 5>filed a report. And what did they do? Did they

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<v Speaker 5>do anything? The first time I went to the police

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<v Speaker 5>to file a report, I went there because I was

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<v Speaker 5>afraid that something had happened to him. I was scared

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<v Speaker 5>that he would have been attacked, because he said that

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<v Speaker 5>he was running a risk of being attacked because well,

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<v Speaker 5>first of all, he was over there with my money.

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<v Speaker 5>But then the police told me that he was okay,

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<v Speaker 5>that there was nothing to worry about because he had

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<v Speaker 5>been cited at the customs between I Guesst, Belgium and Hull,

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<v Speaker 5>and he was he was leaving to you know, to

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<v Speaker 5>catch a plane. But then then, of course I understood

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<v Speaker 5>at that moment that he was actually leaving me.

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<v Speaker 3>So so in essence, the police could do nothing.

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<v Speaker 9>No.

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<v Speaker 3>No. When he was with you, did he ever talk

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<v Speaker 3>about poison? He wanted you to have an examination in hospital,

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<v Speaker 3>an examination of what of your liver? Yes, but Glaine,

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<v Speaker 3>what was wrong with your liver? Nothing?

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<v Speaker 9>Nothing?

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<v Speaker 3>But did you say to him I've got a problem

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<v Speaker 3>with my liver. No, no, no, but he just he

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<v Speaker 3>brought that up. Yes, he actually told me to go

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<v Speaker 3>to hospital for a test, to test my liver.

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<v Speaker 5>So I went. I went to the hospital. They gave

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<v Speaker 5>me an ultrasound for my liver and there was no problem.

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<v Speaker 8>And the second because there's a new do some agency,

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<v Speaker 8>but it soundly.

0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:09.639
<v Speaker 5>A problem that I actually had is that I was

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<v Speaker 5>suffering from apnia. And then he was referring to some

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<v Speaker 5>kind of pillow that you know, he was he would

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<v Speaker 5>use in order to suffocate people. He's it's difficult to

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<v Speaker 5>be very clear about it, but he made me feel

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<v Speaker 5>that he would not want people to believe that he

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<v Speaker 5>would have suffocated me with a pillow, and so it

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<v Speaker 5>was kind of relieved that I was suffering from opnia,

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<v Speaker 5>if you see what I mean.

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<v Speaker 3>But he mentioned he talked about suffocation, Yes, and then

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<v Speaker 3>getting you to go to the hospital for a test

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<v Speaker 3>for something that you all day night. That's very strange behavior.

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<v Speaker 8>And he said that he would came with me.

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<v Speaker 9>During the night. He stayed in my home.

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<v Speaker 3>Very strange.

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<v Speaker 8>Yes, And then I find it it's.

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<v Speaker 9>Something danger that it's not normal.

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<v Speaker 8>But it is not normal that at that moment that

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<v Speaker 8>I find that it is not normal, Why does does

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<v Speaker 8>it put him out my home?

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<v Speaker 9>I can understand. I cannot understand.

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<v Speaker 3>What do you make of him as a man? How

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<v Speaker 3>do you describe him?

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<v Speaker 9>Bizarre?

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<v Speaker 8>Bizarre, bizarre persic It was, it was bizarre.

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<v Speaker 5>We would have breakfast together, but then he would be

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<v Speaker 5>away for lunch away in the afternoon, and then we

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<v Speaker 5>would gather again in the evening. He was very interested

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<v Speaker 5>in old coins, and one one day we went together

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<v Speaker 5>to a cafe in Russells and in the back room

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<v Speaker 5>there was an event there and some people were selling

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<v Speaker 5>old coins, and he took to one of the vendors there,

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<v Speaker 5>and that man, the vendor found it very difficult to

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<v Speaker 5>say that the name the heder vari And then some

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<v Speaker 5>minutes later he told me that, yes, that he let

0:24:40.680 --> 0:24:44.160
<v Speaker 5>that man speak and he said stupid things, but he

0:24:44.240 --> 0:24:48.800
<v Speaker 5>didn't want to contradict him. And then following that event

0:24:49.720 --> 0:24:54.400
<v Speaker 5>we went to Actually there was another event. One day

0:24:54.640 --> 0:24:59.760
<v Speaker 5>he came back with an old rusted coin and he

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<v Speaker 5>with that coin on the side of the pillow. And

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<v Speaker 5>then another occasion we were we were somewhere and then

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<v Speaker 5>in front of a shop selling old coins, and he

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<v Speaker 5>insisted that I would go inside a shop to buy

0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:19.880
<v Speaker 5>a catalog. I said, well, why don't you go yourself?

0:25:20.240 --> 0:25:23.760
<v Speaker 5>He said, no, please do it for me. But you know, Gilin,

0:25:24.680 --> 0:25:28.160
<v Speaker 5>when you look at it now, when you look back, clearly,

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<v Speaker 5>at one stage you thought you loved him. But now

0:25:33.680 --> 0:25:36.200
<v Speaker 5>today what do you think of him?

0:25:36.800 --> 0:25:37.119
<v Speaker 9>Huh?

0:25:39.000 --> 0:25:43.880
<v Speaker 5>Plan to show a lot of negative words from the beginning.

0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:48.000
<v Speaker 5>His one and only idea was to take as much

0:25:48.119 --> 0:25:49.760
<v Speaker 5>money as possible from me.

0:25:51.240 --> 0:25:55.119
<v Speaker 3>But of course he never loved me, that's clear, Jammy, never, Jammy.

0:25:57.000 --> 0:26:00.680
<v Speaker 5>It's a difficult story, and it's very difficult to explain.

0:26:01.000 --> 0:26:06.280
<v Speaker 5>I had a friend and her husband was a very

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<v Speaker 5>successful collector. He had a lot of money. He was

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<v Speaker 5>a very important person. He was the director of a

0:26:14.680 --> 0:26:20.040
<v Speaker 5>university institution in Rome. I don't really remember which one.

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<v Speaker 5>But actually Frederick really insisted that he wanted to meet

0:26:25.480 --> 0:26:29.480
<v Speaker 5>that friend. But at the same time that friend, that

0:26:29.720 --> 0:26:34.720
<v Speaker 5>the woman my friend. I knew that she loved men

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<v Speaker 5>a lot, and I didn't want her to meet him.

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<v Speaker 5>And also I didn't want Frederick to be in contact

0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:45.720
<v Speaker 5>because it would have been risky that Frederick would take

0:26:45.760 --> 0:26:47.360
<v Speaker 5>contact with such a man.

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<v Speaker 3>We can agree, I think that he's been very cruel,

0:26:51.320 --> 0:26:56.000
<v Speaker 3>But do you think he could be dangerous? Oh?

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<v Speaker 8>You certainly, certainly, because at once during the nine.

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<v Speaker 5>Camp, I had a cramp in my leg and he

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<v Speaker 5>wanted to take care of me, just something, but also

0:27:18.560 --> 0:27:28.480
<v Speaker 5>I felt danger and I said no, forget.

0:27:29.200 --> 0:27:35.680
<v Speaker 10>I refused elast but then he insisted it was just something.

0:27:38.400 --> 0:27:44.159
<v Speaker 10>But I was kid, we just something. I was feeling danger.

0:27:44.880 --> 0:27:47.520
<v Speaker 10>You felt you felt it was a dangerous way situation.

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<v Speaker 5>And once again I don't understand why I didn't simply

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<v Speaker 5>kick him out.

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<v Speaker 3>Then I don't understand should it's a good question, why

0:27:58.000 --> 0:28:00.600
<v Speaker 3>didn't you just get rid of it?

0:28:01.200 --> 0:28:03.439
<v Speaker 5>Because that's not me. I'm not that kind of person.

0:28:03.480 --> 0:28:04.800
<v Speaker 5>It's not my personality.

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<v Speaker 9>Should three pack them up?

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<v Speaker 3>You know there are and you know this now because

0:28:15.960 --> 0:28:21.240
<v Speaker 3>people have given you the information. There are many women

0:28:22.600 --> 0:28:28.200
<v Speaker 3>who are now telling us the same story, the same

0:28:28.240 --> 0:28:32.240
<v Speaker 3>sort of story that you're telling us your story. Does

0:28:32.280 --> 0:28:35.000
<v Speaker 3>that make you feel better or worse?

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<v Speaker 8>My complaint to the police, because I should like to

0:28:43.480 --> 0:28:46.640
<v Speaker 8>never hell something like that.

0:28:46.960 --> 0:28:52.160
<v Speaker 9>But I know that it is because.

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<v Speaker 5>I was invited by the police in because he had

0:29:00.200 --> 0:29:03.920
<v Speaker 5>that accent from the region of Tourney, just like my

0:29:04.040 --> 0:29:10.640
<v Speaker 5>husband had, and I was confused about that. Samable, there's

0:29:10.720 --> 0:29:14.680
<v Speaker 5>another victim in Tournay. That's the reason why the police

0:29:15.000 --> 0:29:19.640
<v Speaker 5>off Tournay called me. I went there to to talk

0:29:19.680 --> 0:29:27.200
<v Speaker 5>to one police inspector and he he he well, actually

0:29:27.240 --> 0:29:31.120
<v Speaker 5>I I told my my story and then he called

0:29:31.720 --> 0:29:35.840
<v Speaker 5>the head of the station there and he said that

0:29:36.600 --> 0:29:39.600
<v Speaker 5>he was happy to see that I had got over it.

0:29:39.760 --> 0:29:43.280
<v Speaker 5>I had gotten over it because that other woman was

0:29:43.400 --> 0:29:47.200
<v Speaker 5>at the time, she was still down and destroyed. Because

0:29:47.360 --> 0:29:54.560
<v Speaker 5>that other woman in Tourney, he had hair changed the

0:29:54.560 --> 0:30:00.680
<v Speaker 5>colover hair. He took all her money. Then he made

0:30:00.680 --> 0:30:05.240
<v Speaker 5>sure that she broke all contacts with the family. They

0:30:05.240 --> 0:30:09.080
<v Speaker 5>went to Bali together. He abandoned her in Bali. She

0:30:09.080 --> 0:30:11.360
<v Speaker 5>could not speak a word of English. She had no money.

0:30:11.440 --> 0:30:15.160
<v Speaker 5>Then she called the family and the family send her

0:30:15.160 --> 0:30:17.920
<v Speaker 5>money so that she could come back to Tourney.

0:30:18.600 --> 0:30:22.280
<v Speaker 2>Julane is referring to Bloom's cousin's wife, whom he also

0:30:22.360 --> 0:30:26.440
<v Speaker 2>swindled back in twenty twelve. We discussed this incident earlier

0:30:26.440 --> 0:30:29.719
<v Speaker 2>in the podcast after she spoke to our colleague Tom Rudell,

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<v Speaker 2>who works for the Luxembourg Word newspaper. They referred to

0:30:33.880 --> 0:30:37.160
<v Speaker 2>her as Christine, not her real name, as she feels

0:30:37.200 --> 0:30:40.760
<v Speaker 2>such deep shame and embarrassment. We have not been able

0:30:40.800 --> 0:30:43.840
<v Speaker 2>to speak with her directly, but we understand she has

0:30:43.920 --> 0:30:46.400
<v Speaker 2>been contacted by authorities in Australia.

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<v Speaker 9>In County Little Simoe.

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<v Speaker 5>When he was living at my place, he paid for

0:30:54.240 --> 0:30:57.800
<v Speaker 5>nothing and one day he had bought six polo shirts

0:30:57.960 --> 0:30:59.360
<v Speaker 5>and he insisted that.

0:30:59.440 --> 0:31:02.840
<v Speaker 3>I would them all because that's worth. That's how he was.

0:31:03.400 --> 0:31:07.680
<v Speaker 5>He didn't want to wear anything without washing anything new,

0:31:08.280 --> 0:31:12.080
<v Speaker 5>without washing the clothes before he would wear them.

0:31:12.560 --> 0:31:17.080
<v Speaker 3>Gila, just finally, you've been very patient. No no, no,

0:31:17.400 --> 0:31:21.920
<v Speaker 3>so thank you. Is there anything you could say? Simple message?

0:31:22.440 --> 0:31:25.680
<v Speaker 3>Do you know the story of one of the women

0:31:26.040 --> 0:31:31.000
<v Speaker 3>that we are talking to Sally, whose mother she can't find,

0:31:32.080 --> 0:31:35.120
<v Speaker 3>who tells a very you know, it's a very similar story,

0:31:35.920 --> 0:31:38.080
<v Speaker 3>but she's still missing after all these years.

0:31:39.760 --> 0:31:39.920
<v Speaker 9>Met.

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<v Speaker 3>Everything I've done since the beginning, I've done for.

0:31:45.520 --> 0:31:52.920
<v Speaker 9>This is just to help that person, Nickma, don't record

0:31:53.000 --> 0:31:53.280
<v Speaker 9>it to.

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<v Speaker 8>Scuse your faith for this only as.

0:31:59.480 --> 0:32:05.040
<v Speaker 5>I really wanted to tell my story to the reporters

0:32:05.080 --> 0:32:12.320
<v Speaker 5>in Luxembourg to you now, everything I've done is for her,

0:32:13.440 --> 0:32:20.320
<v Speaker 5>only for her, For Sally, more deficile for me. This

0:32:20.560 --> 0:32:29.880
<v Speaker 5>is really really deficial. It's really complicated, but I must do.

0:32:30.040 --> 0:32:33.200
<v Speaker 9>This is in normally no of it.

0:32:35.440 --> 0:32:38.720
<v Speaker 3>I got a lot of help from my daughter in

0:32:38.880 --> 0:32:40.360
<v Speaker 3>law who's here with us.

0:32:43.120 --> 0:32:45.480
<v Speaker 9>Me prefer.

0:32:46.680 --> 0:32:52.800
<v Speaker 3>She did better than what I could have done. She

0:32:52.960 --> 0:32:54.160
<v Speaker 3>helped me a lot.

0:32:54.920 --> 0:32:57.880
<v Speaker 5>Did do you think she'll ever find her mom? He

0:33:00.760 --> 0:33:06.200
<v Speaker 5>was a man that was capable of anything. I'm not

0:33:06.360 --> 0:33:10.200
<v Speaker 5>confident and I'm scared of what that man can still do.

0:33:11.080 --> 0:33:14.840
<v Speaker 5>I remember at the time in the courthouse in Leuven,

0:33:15.280 --> 0:33:17.280
<v Speaker 5>I had access to the file and I saw that

0:33:17.440 --> 0:33:21.720
<v Speaker 5>he'd been that rig Gloom had been to prison fourteen

0:33:21.920 --> 0:33:27.280
<v Speaker 5>or seventeen times, I don't remember, for different kinds of embezzlements,

0:33:28.040 --> 0:33:29.600
<v Speaker 5>stealing money and so on and so forth.

0:33:31.160 --> 0:33:33.000
<v Speaker 3>What I know is that.

0:33:33.280 --> 0:33:37.960
<v Speaker 5>Victims will always remain victims. The police is on the

0:33:38.120 --> 0:33:41.920
<v Speaker 5>side of wrongdoers. They go to prison, but then you

0:33:42.040 --> 0:33:45.120
<v Speaker 5>never see your money back. And that's the reason why

0:33:45.120 --> 0:33:47.520
<v Speaker 5>I'm say I'm not confident and I'm scared of what

0:33:47.600 --> 0:33:48.520
<v Speaker 5>such a man can still do.

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<v Speaker 2>Just stopping here for a second, we suspect July and

0:33:52.040 --> 0:33:56.200
<v Speaker 2>actually meant fourteen to seventeen charges rather than the number

0:33:56.240 --> 0:33:57.800
<v Speaker 2>of times Bloom went to prison.

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<v Speaker 9>Kille Marie.

0:34:00.480 --> 0:34:04.400
<v Speaker 3>I even saw that he was married or had been

0:34:04.480 --> 0:34:05.440
<v Speaker 3>married to.

0:34:05.680 --> 0:34:08.959
<v Speaker 9>Catch some men epicky his own divorce.

0:34:09.000 --> 0:34:11.240
<v Speaker 3>Three to four weeks. Then they got a divorce.

0:34:11.680 --> 0:34:16.320
<v Speaker 9>I don't said person that deposit plant called.

0:34:19.960 --> 0:34:23.200
<v Speaker 5>And that woman also filed the report against that man,

0:34:23.320 --> 0:34:25.319
<v Speaker 5>because of course he went with all the money.

0:34:26.239 --> 0:34:30.040
<v Speaker 3>A long record. It's an amazing past. In Australia, we

0:34:30.120 --> 0:34:31.960
<v Speaker 3>would call that a colorful history.

0:34:36.800 --> 0:34:42.040
<v Speaker 9>We may be not on the pasc.

0:34:44.080 --> 0:34:46.960
<v Speaker 3>He meant no, of course, this is not the word

0:34:46.960 --> 0:34:49.920
<v Speaker 3>I would have used at that moment. I bet you

0:34:49.960 --> 0:34:57.879
<v Speaker 3>would not. We may, but it's not laughing matter.

0:34:58.400 --> 0:35:00.240
<v Speaker 9>A complete marchan.

0:35:02.000 --> 0:35:03.319
<v Speaker 4>He met no.

0:35:05.640 --> 0:35:09.160
<v Speaker 5>Bafo because the impact on my life was too negative,

0:35:09.800 --> 0:35:13.440
<v Speaker 5>and now my children have to help me, although I

0:35:13.680 --> 0:35:17.439
<v Speaker 5>wanted to help them always because of that guy.

0:35:17.800 --> 0:35:20.640
<v Speaker 3>I understand. Yeah, I'm very sorry for you.

0:35:21.760 --> 0:35:23.480
<v Speaker 9>I am still living.

0:35:24.760 --> 0:35:25.040
<v Speaker 1>And I.

0:35:26.840 --> 0:35:35.320
<v Speaker 8>Saw my grandchildren and oh so beautiful, really really and

0:35:37.080 --> 0:35:42.800
<v Speaker 8>is some madeable kupersmedi It helps me.

0:35:43.680 --> 0:35:48.120
<v Speaker 3>Well, you have survived the experience, which is great.

0:35:48.719 --> 0:35:51.080
<v Speaker 9>Exact, more exact, more exact.

0:35:51.719 --> 0:35:54.719
<v Speaker 2>It's clear that this has been a difficult ordeal for July,

0:35:55.200 --> 0:35:58.040
<v Speaker 2>having to tell her story yet again. Were living the

0:35:58.160 --> 0:36:01.680
<v Speaker 2>pain and trauma imposed on her by Rick Bloom. We

0:36:01.800 --> 0:36:03.960
<v Speaker 2>don't take this lightly. We know that to all this

0:36:04.080 --> 0:36:07.400
<v Speaker 2>takes on brave women like Julaine and Evelyn, who opened

0:36:07.400 --> 0:36:11.400
<v Speaker 2>their hearts to us. Julaine is a proud woman. She

0:36:11.520 --> 0:36:13.640
<v Speaker 2>goes on to talk about how her husband was in

0:36:13.680 --> 0:36:15.640
<v Speaker 2>the Belgian resistance during World War Two.

0:36:17.600 --> 0:36:18.840
<v Speaker 9>Lads cash.

0:36:20.440 --> 0:36:24.440
<v Speaker 3>And he had to hide for two years in a nattic.

0:36:25.080 --> 0:36:28.879
<v Speaker 9>I don't la complete man.

0:36:29.800 --> 0:36:34.640
<v Speaker 5>That's when he changed personality, hiding two years in anatic.

0:36:35.080 --> 0:36:38.200
<v Speaker 5>And then when we went for our honeymoon. I remember

0:36:39.960 --> 0:36:45.920
<v Speaker 5>we were in a restaurant somewhere in France and then

0:36:45.960 --> 0:36:50.680
<v Speaker 5>he said, madus, why did you marry me?

0:36:51.360 --> 0:36:51.600
<v Speaker 3>Mons?

0:36:54.680 --> 0:36:59.919
<v Speaker 9>I said, Jillie, Cristomatic.

0:36:59.600 --> 0:37:01.840
<v Speaker 5>Not that you speak. I wrote it on a napkin

0:37:03.520 --> 0:37:13.000
<v Speaker 5>in order to make you happy. Then he put it

0:37:13.040 --> 0:37:13.680
<v Speaker 5>in his pocket.

0:37:14.040 --> 0:37:17.240
<v Speaker 2>When her husband died, Gulaine hoped to find love again

0:37:17.480 --> 0:37:20.520
<v Speaker 2>with Frederic. He kind of reminded her of him.

0:37:21.120 --> 0:37:28.320
<v Speaker 5>Frederic, and I thought Frederic could be able to to

0:37:28.480 --> 0:37:31.640
<v Speaker 5>cheer me up, console me, to give me some consolation,

0:37:36.280 --> 0:37:36.719
<v Speaker 5>to give me.

0:37:36.800 --> 0:37:45.960
<v Speaker 7>Some really normal in the constantly, if he had loved me,

0:37:46.120 --> 0:37:48.480
<v Speaker 7>he would have helped me. But he did not love me.

0:37:48.960 --> 0:37:51.560
<v Speaker 3>Helene. It's not a crime to have a broken heart.

0:37:52.880 --> 0:37:56.840
<v Speaker 3>You can't keep kicking yourself. You know what, You have

0:37:57.480 --> 0:38:00.800
<v Speaker 3>three beautiful boys and they obviously everyone loves you. You

0:38:00.920 --> 0:38:05.040
<v Speaker 3>have your your daughter in law has been helping you certainly,

0:38:05.239 --> 0:38:09.200
<v Speaker 3>so it's great, wonderful. You have to unfortunately, as tragic

0:38:09.280 --> 0:38:12.759
<v Speaker 3>as that is, you have to move forward and grab

0:38:12.840 --> 0:38:14.040
<v Speaker 3>the positives, don't you.

0:38:15.600 --> 0:38:21.560
<v Speaker 9>It's difficult each day, each name.

0:38:21.719 --> 0:38:25.839
<v Speaker 3>It's a challenge. But there are some good things. There

0:38:25.880 --> 0:38:30.080
<v Speaker 3>are some good things. Well, thank you again, clearly with pleasure.

0:38:30.800 --> 0:38:33.240
<v Speaker 9>I owe the best for Sally.

0:38:33.680 --> 0:38:36.040
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so do I so do I. But you know,

0:38:36.440 --> 0:38:39.040
<v Speaker 3>as I said to you, I mean there are a

0:38:39.120 --> 0:38:43.279
<v Speaker 3>lot of women. The story is, you know, his what

0:38:43.440 --> 0:38:46.800
<v Speaker 3>we would call m o modus operandi, the way he

0:38:47.000 --> 0:38:52.600
<v Speaker 3>operates very similar, very similar to all these different women

0:38:52.680 --> 0:39:02.319
<v Speaker 3>across so many different years. He's very calculating and conniving,

0:39:04.840 --> 0:39:19.920
<v Speaker 3>despicable to the bone. May piner exact exact exact.

0:39:23.760 --> 0:39:31.919
<v Speaker 1>Indeed, Delaine has formed the firm opinion that mister Blum

0:39:32.160 --> 0:39:34.840
<v Speaker 1>does not have a conscience, does not care about what

0:39:34.920 --> 0:39:38.359
<v Speaker 1>he's done to these women to whom he's promised so much.

0:39:41.480 --> 0:39:47.279
<v Speaker 1>Hearing Elaine's story firsthand hits Evelyn hard. She has only

0:39:47.360 --> 0:39:50.640
<v Speaker 1>heard bits and pieces about her father, and meeting Elaine

0:39:50.880 --> 0:39:59.840
<v Speaker 1>has been confronting. Gilaine's daughter in law, Alexandra, continues helping us,

0:40:00.239 --> 0:40:03.200
<v Speaker 1>escorting Evelyn to the Belgian suburb where she spent her

0:40:03.320 --> 0:40:09.799
<v Speaker 1>earliest years. Like Alexandra's home, it's nestled in the inner

0:40:09.880 --> 0:40:16.000
<v Speaker 1>city amidst the hustle and bustle of urban life. Evelyn

0:40:16.040 --> 0:40:17.840
<v Speaker 1>reflects on why we're here.

0:40:19.040 --> 0:40:21.320
<v Speaker 4>And there's someone out there in the closure.

0:40:22.000 --> 0:40:25.000
<v Speaker 1>This is so important for us, and the women are uniting.

0:40:25.280 --> 0:40:28.759
<v Speaker 1>I feel in this whole battle right that we're all

0:40:29.239 --> 0:40:34.200
<v Speaker 1>working together. This man who clearly hated women, he did

0:40:34.360 --> 0:40:37.560
<v Speaker 1>there's no doubt about it. And you know we've just

0:40:37.640 --> 0:40:41.120
<v Speaker 1>discovered obviously the four million frank debt that he he's

0:40:41.200 --> 0:40:43.879
<v Speaker 1>given his daughter. You know who's just come over here

0:40:43.920 --> 0:40:45.480
<v Speaker 1>to find that out, and.

0:40:47.360 --> 0:40:49.640
<v Speaker 4>Who is unbelievable.

0:40:51.239 --> 0:40:52.440
<v Speaker 1>But not surprising.

0:40:55.000 --> 0:40:57.320
<v Speaker 6>Yeah, no, I'm not surprised.

0:41:00.280 --> 0:41:04.040
<v Speaker 1>But it's amazing these brave women like yourself and Elaine

0:41:04.560 --> 0:41:07.799
<v Speaker 1>and Tina Monique when we go to Luxembourg and Alexandra,

0:41:08.000 --> 0:41:10.800
<v Speaker 1>you just join the course like you are. Thank you

0:41:11.120 --> 0:41:14.799
<v Speaker 1>so much, like seriously, like just giving up your time

0:41:15.000 --> 0:41:19.480
<v Speaker 1>like this and vurrying us around. It's just it's just

0:41:19.880 --> 0:41:23.160
<v Speaker 1>I just feel like this is solidarity, like we was saying, solidarity.

0:41:25.360 --> 0:41:27.640
<v Speaker 1>I'm so proud of us, so thank you ladies.

0:41:27.880 --> 0:41:31.000
<v Speaker 2>Allison is talking about some documents Evelyn bought over here,

0:41:31.200 --> 0:41:35.160
<v Speaker 2>written in French, which Alexandra earlier helped to translate. The

0:41:35.239 --> 0:41:38.040
<v Speaker 2>documents came from Rick Bloom and was signed in front

0:41:38.080 --> 0:41:40.640
<v Speaker 2>of a notary, a lawyer who can authenticate a signature

0:41:40.680 --> 0:41:44.280
<v Speaker 2>as genuine. What they learned from these documents was startling,

0:41:44.680 --> 0:41:47.920
<v Speaker 2>if not surprising, given who was involved.

0:41:49.440 --> 0:41:50.080
<v Speaker 4>Inheritance.

0:41:50.280 --> 0:41:57.080
<v Speaker 11>Inheritance sure, he explains that your father refused the inheritance

0:41:57.320 --> 0:42:01.080
<v Speaker 11>of his brother and your father. I said, I don't

0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:03.560
<v Speaker 11>want the inheritance of my brother.

0:42:03.719 --> 0:42:06.200
<v Speaker 9>I don't want I refuse to say what it.

0:42:06.320 --> 0:42:07.880
<v Speaker 3>Is that reper.

0:42:10.480 --> 0:42:13.160
<v Speaker 11>Renounced to the inheritance of his brother.

0:42:13.280 --> 0:42:16.120
<v Speaker 1>Of his brother doesn't say what the inheritance.

0:42:15.760 --> 0:42:19.440
<v Speaker 11>Is though, no, no, you have to sign a document

0:42:19.920 --> 0:42:22.280
<v Speaker 11>to say, okay, I don't want their inheritance.

0:42:22.680 --> 0:42:26.000
<v Speaker 2>Things so called inheritance or debt amounts to four million

0:42:26.120 --> 0:42:30.160
<v Speaker 2>francs or one hundred thousand euros. Allison explains that you

0:42:30.239 --> 0:42:33.640
<v Speaker 2>can't inherit debt in Australia, but in Belgium you can.

0:42:34.960 --> 0:42:39.439
<v Speaker 11>So this is the list of the people who could

0:42:39.520 --> 0:42:46.880
<v Speaker 11>receive their inheritance, so his wife, his two children who

0:42:47.000 --> 0:42:50.239
<v Speaker 11>were not who were to be minors at that time,

0:42:51.800 --> 0:42:55.840
<v Speaker 11>his mother, and his brother not Evelyn.

0:42:55.920 --> 0:42:56.080
<v Speaker 3>Though.

0:42:56.560 --> 0:42:59.400
<v Speaker 2>The confusion here is whether the debt is actually Freddie,

0:42:59.480 --> 0:43:03.480
<v Speaker 2>David's Loom's late brother or his own, as that was

0:43:03.560 --> 0:43:05.760
<v Speaker 2>one of the names he used as an alias.

0:43:06.120 --> 0:43:08.600
<v Speaker 1>Because one of these seasons, one of these fake names

0:43:09.239 --> 0:43:09.640
<v Speaker 1>was Freddy.

0:43:09.800 --> 0:43:10.719
<v Speaker 12>I know that was it.

0:43:10.880 --> 0:43:16.000
<v Speaker 11>But when when she met he met Gila, he well,

0:43:16.120 --> 0:43:21.360
<v Speaker 11>he explained that he was good visiting David because it

0:43:21.560 --> 0:43:23.879
<v Speaker 11>was the name of his brother who saw him.

0:43:26.520 --> 0:43:27.560
<v Speaker 1>His purpose was.

0:43:27.640 --> 0:43:33.120
<v Speaker 11>To try to make a confusion between the names and said,

0:43:33.520 --> 0:43:34.759
<v Speaker 11>is my brother not me?

0:43:35.400 --> 0:43:38.120
<v Speaker 3>So when you see that he's there, but this.

0:43:38.600 --> 0:43:41.360
<v Speaker 9>Is too too kink.

0:43:41.560 --> 0:43:45.239
<v Speaker 11>He was dead himself, you know. Yeah, yeah, I think

0:43:45.400 --> 0:43:46.759
<v Speaker 11>you understand why I don't.

0:43:46.840 --> 0:43:50.120
<v Speaker 6>Okay, So what's happened is he's inherited his death and

0:43:50.280 --> 0:43:53.279
<v Speaker 6>he's saying under give fake name which he took on

0:43:53.440 --> 0:43:56.120
<v Speaker 6>Freddy David, it's a safe name, and he said he's dead,

0:43:56.239 --> 0:43:59.200
<v Speaker 6>I can't be mine and as a result, I'm not

0:43:59.239 --> 0:44:01.640
<v Speaker 6>going to pay iron to here.

0:44:02.120 --> 0:44:08.320
<v Speaker 11>The notary context contacts you and say I think you

0:44:08.480 --> 0:44:13.800
<v Speaker 11>have a link with the dead guy with pediavis but

0:44:13.960 --> 0:44:15.880
<v Speaker 11>of course the father is not dead.

0:44:18.120 --> 0:44:18.720
<v Speaker 3>To understand.

0:44:20.239 --> 0:44:24.120
<v Speaker 11>So for the notary it's not clear because he don't yes,

0:44:24.680 --> 0:44:30.440
<v Speaker 11>but maybe he made something to make people believe that

0:44:30.640 --> 0:44:35.080
<v Speaker 11>he said as editor didn't head. Of course he had

0:44:35.160 --> 0:44:40.160
<v Speaker 11>problems with the police at that time. If he said no,

0:44:40.719 --> 0:44:47.879
<v Speaker 11>no other problem from and he explained that he took

0:44:48.040 --> 0:44:52.440
<v Speaker 11>the furniture because it was the rented apartment, so he

0:44:52.640 --> 0:44:55.760
<v Speaker 11>put the furniture some somewhere.

0:44:56.440 --> 0:45:02.520
<v Speaker 3>Okay, the not a real because the the apartment was rented.

0:45:02.840 --> 0:45:06.719
<v Speaker 11>So there is a debt four million francs of debt

0:45:06.800 --> 0:45:14.800
<v Speaker 11>to the States. Access to the States four millions really neutral.

0:45:15.920 --> 0:45:19.479
<v Speaker 4>So potentially that was my father's debt.

0:45:20.320 --> 0:45:25.319
<v Speaker 11>Wow, I better get on with renouncing that. Renounce as

0:45:25.360 --> 0:45:26.200
<v Speaker 11>soon as removed.

0:45:26.480 --> 0:45:27.719
<v Speaker 3>Don't sign this documents.

0:45:28.360 --> 0:45:31.560
<v Speaker 11>The family is not closed for maybe they are waiting

0:45:31.680 --> 0:45:32.440
<v Speaker 11>for this body.

0:45:33.760 --> 0:45:34.000
<v Speaker 9>Wow.

0:45:36.760 --> 0:45:39.600
<v Speaker 2>So just to confirm, Evelyn has a one hundred thousand

0:45:39.680 --> 0:45:43.600
<v Speaker 2>euro debt her father has effectively bequeathed to her, which

0:45:43.640 --> 0:45:46.120
<v Speaker 2>she now has to renounce. We don't know if it

0:45:46.239 --> 0:45:48.120
<v Speaker 2>was a debt of his own making or the real

0:45:48.200 --> 0:45:51.200
<v Speaker 2>Freddy David, as there are rumors Freddy had a gambling problem.

0:45:52.120 --> 0:45:55.600
<v Speaker 2>That isn't all though. Evelyn reveals another document relating to

0:45:55.680 --> 0:45:59.160
<v Speaker 2>the estate of her grandmother, who also died in nineteen

0:45:59.280 --> 0:46:01.680
<v Speaker 2>seventy seven, not long after a loaner.

0:46:01.560 --> 0:46:04.000
<v Speaker 4>Private agreement in place and we're trying.

0:46:04.080 --> 0:46:08.520
<v Speaker 2>Evelyn and Allison visit a notary named Jerome Otto in Brussels,

0:46:08.920 --> 0:46:13.000
<v Speaker 2>whose mother apparently witnessed the signing of the document basically

0:46:13.480 --> 0:46:17.760
<v Speaker 2>at his office. They discussed further, immediately realizing Rick Bloom's

0:46:17.800 --> 0:46:20.920
<v Speaker 2>own claims again formed the proof of his lives.

0:46:21.160 --> 0:46:25.080
<v Speaker 1>Willie Wooters aka Frederic DEHEEVERI when he was in Torney prison,

0:46:25.920 --> 0:46:31.040
<v Speaker 1>made an agreement on your angel brother Chris's behalf, that

0:46:31.200 --> 0:46:36.239
<v Speaker 1>the settlement of your grandmother's estate, which is bizarre, right

0:46:36.360 --> 0:46:39.360
<v Speaker 1>because he told you that he didn't know you existed,

0:46:39.440 --> 0:46:40.799
<v Speaker 1>remember that's right.

0:46:41.000 --> 0:46:43.879
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, he did tell me that. He Yeah, when

0:46:43.920 --> 0:46:44.799
<v Speaker 4>I first met him.

0:46:45.200 --> 0:46:47.239
<v Speaker 1>Which was twenty years later, so yeah, he said that he.

0:46:47.440 --> 0:46:49.960
<v Speaker 4>You know, when I asked him, why hadn't he come

0:46:50.080 --> 0:46:53.839
<v Speaker 4>to try to find me as my father, first question

0:46:54.040 --> 0:46:58.840
<v Speaker 4>really that I wanted to know and to have answered,

0:46:58.920 --> 0:47:02.400
<v Speaker 4>and he said that because he didn't know I existed.

0:47:03.120 --> 0:47:07.439
<v Speaker 4>So that until the Belgium Consulate in Australia contacted him

0:47:08.040 --> 0:47:10.359
<v Speaker 4>to let him know that I was looking for him.

0:47:10.719 --> 0:47:12.879
<v Speaker 4>He didn't even know until that moment that my mother

0:47:13.000 --> 0:47:16.600
<v Speaker 4>had passed away, soies, I was in my twenties by

0:47:16.640 --> 0:47:19.719
<v Speaker 4>that stage, which I now know all of that that's

0:47:19.760 --> 0:47:24.279
<v Speaker 4>a lie. But this the state of my grandmother has

0:47:24.719 --> 0:47:31.520
<v Speaker 4>has I'm not sure about the authenticity of the inheritance

0:47:32.640 --> 0:47:37.600
<v Speaker 4>document itself, but the document that that I got that

0:47:38.160 --> 0:47:43.040
<v Speaker 4>came to me through the Belgium Consulate in Australia, it

0:47:43.200 --> 0:47:46.600
<v Speaker 4>was translated and in that translation it said that he

0:47:48.360 --> 0:47:54.680
<v Speaker 4>had made a private arrangement with the doctor of law

0:47:54.760 --> 0:47:59.480
<v Speaker 4>in nineteen seventy eight. We've got a document that I

0:47:59.719 --> 0:48:03.680
<v Speaker 4>was even that was meant to represent I think that

0:48:04.520 --> 0:48:09.439
<v Speaker 4>the will of my grandmother, which was translated. I don't

0:48:09.480 --> 0:48:11.880
<v Speaker 4>have the document anymore at the only time it was

0:48:11.880 --> 0:48:18.200
<v Speaker 4>in my twenties of skin in this document. Why is

0:48:18.239 --> 0:48:21.799
<v Speaker 4>his name even in her estate, I'm not sure why.

0:48:23.440 --> 0:48:25.760
<v Speaker 4>Why is the fact that he's made a private agreement

0:48:26.680 --> 0:48:29.320
<v Speaker 4>on your being by behalf and your brother my brothers

0:48:30.120 --> 0:48:32.080
<v Speaker 4>while he's in prison. I'm not quite sure what all

0:48:32.160 --> 0:48:36.560
<v Speaker 4>that means. So we're just trying to get to the

0:48:36.560 --> 0:48:37.040
<v Speaker 4>bottom of that.

0:48:37.560 --> 0:48:40.520
<v Speaker 1>And this is the other thing that's interesting with that,

0:48:40.640 --> 0:48:44.200
<v Speaker 1>because when you raised that about the settlement with him,

0:48:44.239 --> 0:48:48.960
<v Speaker 1>which we discussed earlier, he said, well, obviously he acted

0:48:49.120 --> 0:48:50.200
<v Speaker 1>like he knew nothing about it.

0:48:50.280 --> 0:48:52.200
<v Speaker 4>If he acted like he knew nothing about it, and

0:48:52.320 --> 0:48:55.120
<v Speaker 4>he said that he would be making a trip to

0:48:55.280 --> 0:49:01.520
<v Speaker 4>Belgium and that he may know relative or a friend

0:49:01.600 --> 0:49:04.400
<v Speaker 4>of a relative of my mother's that he may be

0:49:04.520 --> 0:49:10.279
<v Speaker 4>able to contact and find some information out for me,

0:49:11.000 --> 0:49:12.960
<v Speaker 4>and that on his return he let me know if

0:49:13.000 --> 0:49:17.920
<v Speaker 4>he discovered anything. So he obviously his story was that

0:49:18.040 --> 0:49:20.560
<v Speaker 4>he didn't know anything about me. So the fact that

0:49:20.719 --> 0:49:26.120
<v Speaker 4>he was involved in making legal agreements on my behalf,

0:49:28.040 --> 0:49:30.719
<v Speaker 4>you know, not something that he was forthcoming about at all.

0:49:31.680 --> 0:49:32.920
<v Speaker 4>But we don't know.

0:49:33.440 --> 0:49:35.200
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we don't know the details. So that's what we're

0:49:35.239 --> 0:49:40.440
<v Speaker 1>here for. Because Jerome, this is the firm Jerome.

0:49:41.560 --> 0:49:44.720
<v Speaker 4>It's because this is a legacy business through his families.

0:49:44.760 --> 0:49:45.200
<v Speaker 3>It was his.

0:49:47.000 --> 0:49:52.200
<v Speaker 4>I think it was his mother, Jerome's witness witness. That's

0:49:52.360 --> 0:49:59.200
<v Speaker 4>a private arrangement that was put together between Willie Waters and.

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<v Speaker 9>Doctor of law.

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<v Speaker 4>So might they just that he has appointed that doctor

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<v Speaker 4>of law to act as some type of a proper

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<v Speaker 4>attorney or proxy on behalf of my brother and I

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<v Speaker 4>and that this notary signed that private agreement off and

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<v Speaker 4>then we would have to go then to that power

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<v Speaker 4>of attorney to find out then how that power of

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<v Speaker 4>attorney got used.

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<v Speaker 1>And that was in ninety in seventy, and.

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<v Speaker 4>So really not sure, but anyone who's going to uncover.

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<v Speaker 1>But yes, then after that they can look accepting at

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<v Speaker 1>the file. But also we can see if we can

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<v Speaker 1>obtain some documents from the consulate, from the consulate and

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<v Speaker 1>maybe they might be able to help us to So

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<v Speaker 1>what documents do we want in the consulate.

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<v Speaker 4>From the consulate, we're looking for my grandmother's will. We're

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<v Speaker 4>looking for any translated copies of that that they may

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<v Speaker 4>have and when for the power of attorney documents that

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<v Speaker 4>they that they had us sign, my brother and I sign.

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<v Speaker 2>Unfortunately, the notary does not have a copy of the

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<v Speaker 2>original private agreement that says he will make inquiries on

0:51:18.600 --> 0:51:23.120
<v Speaker 2>Evelyn's behalf. You'll remember in the previous episode, Evelyn recounted

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<v Speaker 2>how her father offered to find out what happened to

0:51:26.080 --> 0:51:29.279
<v Speaker 2>her grandmother's inheritance as he was going to Belgium and

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<v Speaker 2>he knew somebody you could maybe help.

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<v Speaker 4>He said to me that I really wish I could

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<v Speaker 4>remember the name of the person that he said that

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<v Speaker 4>he had contact with.

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<v Speaker 9>But what he said to me was he said.

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<v Speaker 4>That there's an extended family in Belgium that knew that

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<v Speaker 4>alone had two children, that those children were in Australia,

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<v Speaker 4>and that the rumor that people had heard was that

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<v Speaker 4>a private arrangement had been made between Joseph Birou, my

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<v Speaker 4>grandmother's second husband, and my step father, whereby Joseph biro

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<v Speaker 4>would have the rights to keep the majority of the

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<v Speaker 4>finances from my grandmother's estate and Michael could keep the daughter.

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<v Speaker 4>That's what he came back and said to me.

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<v Speaker 2>This was devastating for Evelyn. We're still waiting to hear

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<v Speaker 2>back from the Belgian notary about all of this, and

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<v Speaker 2>rest assured we won't give up trying to find out

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<v Speaker 2>more about Evelyn's lost legacy until we have answers. Thanks

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<v Speaker 2>to Alexandra, however, we did discover the building that belonged

0:52:57.840 --> 0:53:01.920
<v Speaker 2>to her grandmother was sold by Bureau and his new wife.

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<v Speaker 2>He then moved to the country.

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<v Speaker 4>It had a lot more life when I was young

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<v Speaker 4>in this place, and I have fond, very fond memories.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, up until you were seven, line, it was a

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<v Speaker 1>pretty good life, right, it was pretty good. Yeah, and

0:53:21.920 --> 0:53:24.719
<v Speaker 1>then everything came tumbling down because that's when she lived.

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<v Speaker 1>That's when everyone lost her mum at seven years old.

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<v Speaker 3>And so it's very young.

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<v Speaker 4>It's a young yea. Here I was in Australia and

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<v Speaker 4>I had left here to go to live in Australia

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<v Speaker 4>permanently with my mother, and I had a husband, and

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<v Speaker 4>I wasn't there long. Do you remember being told it

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<v Speaker 4>happened at the school where I was in the office.

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<v Speaker 4>I think.

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<v Speaker 1>And how he told you.

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<v Speaker 4>I think the principal of the school and my stepfather together.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you remember about your mom?

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<v Speaker 4>I remember her chasing me around the house with a

0:54:07.360 --> 0:54:09.960
<v Speaker 4>wooden spoon quite frequently.

0:54:12.640 --> 0:54:15.080
<v Speaker 1>I got the wooden spin growing up, did you Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>I've had a few of those broken.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, but it's so funny. I can't remember anything she said,

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<v Speaker 4>but I can remember the sound of her voice in

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<v Speaker 4>Hungarian and in French and always telling me, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>not to do that, don't touch that.

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<v Speaker 1>But she was so young too.

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<v Speaker 4>She was thirty one when she died.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but so she yeah, she was in her twenties,

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<v Speaker 1>early twenties, Yeah, because she had you do you remember

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<v Speaker 1>your grandmother at all?

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<v Speaker 4>I do remember my grandmother.

0:54:52.160 --> 0:54:52.399
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>I remember my grandmother being sick and being in bed

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<v Speaker 4>a lot. So you know, my grandmother was beautiful and

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<v Speaker 4>she's to teach me how to knit and yeah, she

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<v Speaker 4>taught me lots of And.

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<v Speaker 3>Did you go to school.

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<v Speaker 4>I went to school here as well, somewhere I don't

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<v Speaker 4>know where, not for long. I was probably speaking English

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<v Speaker 4>around five or six years old because I was going

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<v Speaker 4>to Australia with my mother. So my English women have

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<v Speaker 4>been very good, typic In and a five year old's

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<v Speaker 4>fluent French isn't the same as adults French.

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<v Speaker 1>Eveyln was telling me about how the Girl with the

0:55:38.320 --> 0:55:41.920
<v Speaker 1>Dragon Tattoo she related to that girl that have you

0:55:41.960 --> 0:55:46.680
<v Speaker 1>ever read the stick lasson Snip? Well, there's a lady.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a girl in that and she's strong and she's

0:55:50.360 --> 0:55:53.160
<v Speaker 1>she's tough, you know, but she has a lot of

0:55:53.239 --> 0:55:56.040
<v Speaker 1>tattoos and the nose ring and all this sort of

0:55:56.080 --> 0:55:59.600
<v Speaker 1>soul piercings and and ultimately the story leads her to

0:55:59.760 --> 0:56:02.360
<v Speaker 1>her relatives. Yeah, do you remember?

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<v Speaker 2>Evelyn is talking about Lisbet Solander, the hero of the

0:56:06.760 --> 0:56:09.880
<v Speaker 2>Millennium trilogy of novels beginning with The Girl with the

0:56:09.960 --> 0:56:15.000
<v Speaker 2>Dragon Tattoo. The author was Swedish journalist Steve Larsen, who

0:56:15.120 --> 0:56:18.359
<v Speaker 2>died in two thousand and four just before his first

0:56:18.440 --> 0:56:23.360
<v Speaker 2>book was published, topping bestseller charts and spawning multiple feature films.

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<v Speaker 2>His original title for the first book was Men who

0:56:28.239 --> 0:56:29.000
<v Speaker 2>Hate Women.

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<v Speaker 4>Her father who tried to bury her and kill her.

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<v Speaker 4>I remember that part of the story.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't get that far.

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<v Speaker 12>Oh yeah, god, yeah, Like she has all these troubles,

0:56:43.360 --> 0:56:47.560
<v Speaker 12>but eventually, as she slowly uncovers things.

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<v Speaker 4>The troubles end up leading to her father, who who

0:56:53.760 --> 0:56:54.440
<v Speaker 4>then tries.

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<v Speaker 6>To kill her.

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<v Speaker 2>Evelyn confesses to Allison she did used to have a

0:56:59.120 --> 0:57:02.279
<v Speaker 2>lot of tattoos and piercings, most of which have now

0:57:02.400 --> 0:57:03.040
<v Speaker 2>been removed.

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<v Speaker 9>You have to no sign.

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<v Speaker 2>Next time, the team travels to Luxembourg to catch up

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<v Speaker 2>with an old friend. He says she bore witness to

0:57:12.840 --> 0:57:16.720
<v Speaker 2>one of Rick Bloom's Frederick the Head's criminal ventures.

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<v Speaker 9>If you come back once, I will imaged to go

0:57:20.320 --> 0:57:21.680
<v Speaker 9>to I told you.

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0:57:36.400 --> 0:57:40.360
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