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The You're listening to Dakota Spotlight. My name is James Walner. This is an off-season or standalone episode about something different. Some of you may recall that last year I did

some interviews with podcast producers from around the

globe. One of those producers is Allison Sandy, one of a team of journalists working at the

news organization named Seven News in Australia. Their podcast titled The Lady Vanishes is about

Marion Barter, who went missing in 1997 at the age of 51. When I spoke to Allison last year,

they were just about to begin an inquest into Marion's disappearance. It's over a year later now,

and the Lady Vanishes podcast has been downloaded about 12 million times, and there are a whopping

40 episodes to binge. And some very exciting things have been happening in that story,

and I thought it was about time to check in again with Allison to talk about what's been going

on in that case. Now, you know how I sometimes say at the beginning of an episode,

hey, if you've not listened to X, Y, Z, you should go back and listen first, or this won't make

sense. I'm not saying

that this time. Even if you've not listened to a single episode of The Lady Vanishes, I say,

listen in on this interview with Allison anyway. Sure, it won't all make sense, maybe, but you'll get

most of it. And I'm confident that you'll want to start listening to the podcast afterwards.

In my opinion, it's one of the most fascinating true crime stories ever to be told in a podcast.

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