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    Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #22

    Lots of good food for thought, @KathPlumber. The 1980s-90s must have been rife with that kind of theft with no repercussions. I vaguely remember from that time reading about wealthy people abroad (I'm in US; Japan was mentioned and the Middle East) who would pay for treasures and didn't care...
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    Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #22

    One more stray thought: In The Pigeon Tunnel, a doc on writer John Le Carre (David Cornwell), the writer discusses his con-artist, fraudster father. Cornwell talks of the adrenaline rush of his father's “self-imposed schizophrenia.” That the father LOVED the madness and chaos of appearing...
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    Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #22

    Self-publishing is also known as an act of vanity. So I can see this book as a lark spearheaded by RB, his daughter, and their Bali buddies. (a reader, a proofreader, a hostess, etc) This jives with criminals who can’t stand the world not knowing how smart they are. It also jives with the...
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    Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #22

    Thank you, @KathPlumber!!! I watch every true crime doc and listen to podcasts regularly. I can’t believe “The Thief Collector” slipped past me— especially since I live in New Mexico and have driven through the Alter’s remote home location. The correlation with this case of a man who committed...
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    Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #22

    You would think the Police Department would want to step up and make an effort to remake their image by actively pursuing Marion's case. Sadly, humans can be jerks and it may be that their retaliation for being called out by the coroner is to dig in heels and not be of help.
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    Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #22

    Earlier in this thread, someone recommended the documentary "The Thief Collector." I watched it last night, and it really creeped me out. I watch and listen to a lot of true crime, but this story takes the cake. I don't want to give away too much, but one of the creepiest things is a book of...
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    Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #22

    Even if AB can be connected to RB, does it lead to Marion? He's admitted to conning women, going to Bali, being a dirtbag, so it's an amazing connection to those things but still not closer to the truth about Marion Barter unless she met her demise in Bali or someone there knows more about Mr...
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    Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #22

    FWIW -- Alwin Blum has an account on Twitter/X. Since June 2022. His tagline is: "Analog nomad. Bali-phile. Wannabe yogi. Author." There are no followers. The account follows just two accounts: the Malaysian Ministry of Health and an online Malaysian media company. The account is not...
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    Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #22

    In the last TLV episode (last ever) I found the part where Brian tells Sally -- with heartfelt and genuine emotion-- how much she has meant to him, really moving. But then Sally deflects and her return remark does not acknowledge his sentiment but instead is about the case or her mother...
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    Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #22

    Red herrings! and now Red Squirrels! Your perspective @Lord Peter Flimsy has been invaluable to us all. I did google Alriston, out of curiousity, and it did pop up as one of the most popular villages to visit because of its quaintness and the Clergy House, which was the very first NT...
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    Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #22

    Yes! 100% -- I wasn't naysaying. Just thinking of Glyndebourne and Marion made me sad all over again. Of all that England was meant to be and that she was shackled from the beginning. Just me.
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    Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #22

    I wholly support this line of investigation. Good luck, sleuths! Sadly, for me, what I know of Marion and AKA, and Glyndebourne -- I can't imagine AKA indulging Marion and accompanying her there. I can imagine him discouraging her from attending with some BS rationale. I feel like had she...
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    Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #22

    You may be right, @mishy66. You know the details much better than I. However, I don't give AKA that much credit to plant stationery. He's sly, I admit, but he's also a man of opportunity. This is 1997. No one had any idea that someday newspaper and passenger card databases could be searched...
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    Australia Australia - Marion Barter - Missing After Trip to UK - June 1997 #22

    or. . . Marion did this, consciously or subconsciously, to leave a bread crumb trail. Just like the Narita notepaper.

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