The Inquest: Part 12
The Lady Vanishes
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🗓️ 27 February 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Barrister Adam Casselden digs deeper... to find out why Ric Blum created a personal ad and obtained a driver's licence using Fernand Remakel's identity.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the case of Marion Bata, a mother, teacher, friend, missing for 25 years. |
| 0:20.0 | You know, no sign that she was going to vanish, that's for sure. |
| 0:26.0 | The bizarre circumstances surrounding her disappearance. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm not sure if it was intentional or if there's something more foul of foot. |
| 0:34.0 | If you could imagine a teacher coming straight from, say, a little house on the Prairie to the 80s, that was Marion Bata. |
| 0:40.0 | What do you know who I said? |
| 0:44.0 | Whether you find Marion Bata dead or alive, 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 | If something had happened, something has happened to make her leave. |
| 1:01.0 | I am 100% sure, 100% sure that somebody knows something. |
| 1:09.0 | The Lady vanishes. |
| 1:11.0 | Episode 32. |
| 1:13.0 | The Inquist, heart 12. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm Alison Sandy. |
| 1:19.0 | We have left Balana after hearing seven days of evidence from the local court there. |
| 1:24.0 | The state coroner of New South Wales, her honour, magistrate Theresa O'Sullivan, has moved proceedings to Byron Bay, |
| 1:31.0 | where our story began 25 years ago. |
| 1:37.0 | It was here that Marion's daughter Sally first reported her mum missing to the Byron Bay police. |
| 1:43.0 | A report that was quickly dismissed, yet triggered the extraordinary events that have culminated in this coronal inquest. |
| 1:53.0 | And it's getting much, much stranger by the minute, with some heated exchanges and secret meetings in the adjournments. |
| 2:02.0 | We arrive at Byron Bay local court on a warm, humid day. |
| 2:08.0 | Byron is quite different from Balana. |
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