Welcome back to The Lady Vanishes, the catch-up series, Episode 3. I'm Alison Sandy.

And I'm Brian Seymour. This time, we revisit Episode 5 to 9 of The Lady Vanishes.

By this stage of our podcast, we were starting to receive a number of leads and messages

from our listeners and former acquaintances and colleagues of Marion. Sally was also outlining

how many different authorities she'd approached, from the New South Wales Police to the Salvation

Army Missing Persons Unit to Federal Police and in 2016, the Queensland Police.

She even approached the New South Wales Premier to have carriage of the case transferred to Queensland.

But she still felt that every door she knocked on was being closed firmly in her face.

Having already determined that Marion was not on the electoral roll,

was not receiving the pension, not claiming from Centrelink and had not used her Medicare cards

since September 1997, Sally made inquiries into her mother's unaccessed superannuation

and checked with the Australian Tax Office to determine whether there had been any activity

in her mother's name. He's an excerpt from Episode 5.

Sally is convinced money plays a big role in this case. This is her reasoning.

Why would someone go to the effort of withdrawing the limit of $5,000 in cash every single day

for three and a half weeks in August and September 1997 from Byron Bay and Burleigh Heads,

where Marion was highly likely to have been recognised.

If it was Marion making the withdrawals, couldn't she simply prove her identity to the bank

and transfer the money to another account? Or again, with proof of identity,

have the withdrawal limit raised so she could take a lump sum in one transaction.

And why would someone purporting to be Marion be angry with Sally that the $7,500

she'd made selling Marion's car wasn't immediately transferred to her account?

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