Hi, I'm Allison Sandy.

I'm Brian Seymour.

And I'm Sally Leiden.

Welcome to episode 12 of Conversations.

We're just back from Byron Bay.

Sally Brian, tell me about it.

Well, obviously, back to Byron after our earlier visit very early on in this journey and this time to track down a few things

number one the original police officer Sally first reported her mom missing to back in 1997,

a police officer by the name of Graham Childs, and also employees at the Commonwealth Bank Branch where Marion or someone using

her identity drained her account over three and a half weeks at the rate of five thousand dollars a day up to

125,000 dollars at the Commonwealth Bank in Byron Bay. Now obviously these days

if someone were to go into a bank branch they they'd be on camera, they'd be electronically

digitally recorded, you couldn't get away with that.

This was just on the cusp of all that technology.

The security cameras they had were only turned on when there was a robbery.

They were still using paper. They were filling out slips and signing cards.

A second staff member would then identify through a photo ID, the person taking the money over a certain amount.

But we found out a number of interesting things because we did track down the key person we were

looking for, remarkably. A man who turns out was the bank

supervisor in 1997 at the Commonwealth Bank Branch in Byron Bay and his name was

Brian Cox. We've known about Mr Cox for a while, we've been trying to call him, we

needed to physically go there and we actually found him at his place of work and believe

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