Welcome back to the Lady Banishes, the catch-up series, Episode 2, I'm Alison Sandy.

And I'm Brian Seymour. By the time we reached Episode 4, people were starting to take notice.

We'd amassed more than 1 million listeners and many were sending in information, ideas

and potential leads.

As you'll hear from the following snippet, it was around this time that we started to

encounter difficulties accessing information.

Just a quick update ahead of Episode 4, which scrutinises the reasons why and how Marion

vanished, as there have been many developments since the start of our podcast.

Not the least of which is a looming legal battle involving Marion's daughter Sally and

New South Wales Police. Over just how much information Sally is entitled to under freedom

of information laws. The matter is now before the New South Wales civil and administrative

tribunal with a hearing scheduled for late June.

You'll see by this episode just how conflicting the information into Marion's disappearance

is, and it's becoming increasingly clear that finding the truth will come at a cost.

Now on to the rest of Episode 4, it was a pivotal one, so we're going to replay the bulk

of it.

After checking with a friend in customs, and thanks to a helpful bank employee, Sally

determined that someone had returned to Australia through Sydney Airport on Marion's

passport on August 2nd. And for weeks afterwards, large sums of money were drained from her

bank account, mostly at Byron Bay.

Sally canvassed the tourist town with Marion's photo without luck. CCTV wasn't as prevalent

or as sophisticated in 1997 as it is today. There was no security video near the Byron Bay

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