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The Lady Vanishes

14. DNA

The Lady Vanishes

LiSTNR

True Crime, News, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Could Marion's old ballet slippers help the police investigation into her disappearance? Sally provides her DNA, a former colleague offers a new lead and we finally catch up with the last person to see Marion before she left Australia. Plus, a mysterious email from overseas - what is the link to Monsieur Remakel?


Most of the music for The Lady Vanishes was composed by Nicolas Gasparini at thedarkpiano.com with additional tracks by Jason Shaw at audionautix.com



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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the case of Marion Barta, a mother, teacher, friend, missing for 22 years.

0:21.0

You know, no sign that he was going to vanish, that's for sure. The bizarre circumstances surrounding her disappearance.

0:29.0

I'm not sure if it was intentional or if there was something more foul afoot.

0:34.0

If you could imagine a teacher coming straight from say Little House on the prairie to the 80s,

0:39.0

that was Mary and Bata.

0:40.0

What do you find Mary and butter dead or alive,

0:46.0

I honestly believe somebody has that key piece of information.

0:50.0

And the relentless quest of a daughter to find her mum.

0:55.0

Something had happened.

0:56.2

Something has happened to make her leave.

1:00.9

I am 100% sure, 100% sure that somebody knows something.

1:09.0

The lady vanishes.

1:10.0

Episode 14.

1:13.0

Hi, I'm Allison Sandy.

1:16.0

And I'm Brian Seymour.

1:18.0

Thanks to our breakthrough investigation Marion was for the first time

1:26.7

added to the Australian Federal Police National Missing Persons Register

1:31.6

on August 7th. Already there has been a number of developments.

1:37.0

We'll update you on what we know is happening, what is due to happen any time, and on some of the avenues of inquiry

1:46.1

we're following, all leading towards finding out what happened to Marion.

1:59.6

First up, a visit by the New South Wales Police, but not Gary Sheehan, who has been in charge of the investigation since 2009. On Friday, September 6th, Detective

2:06.7

Inspector Glenn Brown visited Sally Layden's Brisbane home to take possession

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