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.
1:12.0	Episode 33.
1:14.0	The Inquest.
1:16.0	Part 13.
1:19.0	I'm Alison Sandy.
1:22.0	Friday, February 18th.
1:26.0	What was meant to be the final day of evidence at the Inquest into Marion Bata's disappearance.
1:35.0	It's a humid, sticky day in Byron Bay.
1:39.0	And when we arrive, there are already murmurings that they weren't going to get through everything they needed to.
1:45.0	And the Inquest would be extended.
1:49.0	We hadn't even gotten to Marion yet and some of the evidence provided by Rick Blum sounded so ludicrous that surely it would require checking.
2:01.0	It was like nothing any of us had heard before and was surely to protract proceedings.
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