Belinda Bates

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241 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 19 Jul

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Australian True Crime · 10 Red Flags You're Living With a Dangerous Man · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

that need for myself was great.

Those thoughts of him coming home and how my family and friends felt, when I first told a very close friend, she was the one I told first, she knew me and I wouldn't make a decision like this unless I really felt something.

I mean, she was scared for me.

Like, I'm not going to lie, she felt that way, especially knowing what he was in for.

Yeah.

But she knew me and she thought, well, this is what you want with your 100%, which meant a lot to me.

And it wasn't until probably a year in that I did tell my mother and my sister and my father.

And because we are such a great family, they were like – I can't even describe to you.

I cried when I told them and they were just –

cuddling me saying, we're with you 100%.

My dad even drove me to the first, because he was in Maribor at that stage and I'm in Brisbane.

My dad was a correctional officer himself.

So he drove me there because it was a very long drive and I didn't really know where I was going.

He drove me there.

Yes, absolutely.

But my father knows me too.

And he knows that I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't really feel something strong.

Yeah.

Yeah, like Michelle completely, I would probably be the same.

But what I can say is that...

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