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And he remembers that as a kid.
And he sort of had an idea that later that maybe this was to make him think that they were looking for his mother because over time he became more suspicious.
Well, they were informed by Robert Fulton, the husband, a few days later that his wife had gone missing.
It doesn't seem that there are any other alarm bells that were being raised.
She was being treated as a missing person.
She'd never been missing before.
They had had marriage problems for some time.
but decided at Christmas time, Christmas 1985, to give it a further go.
And he'd come back to the home and said his wife had just left.
And the day before, he told police she had said that she needed time for herself.
The police report said husband thinks she may have a boyfriend, as she had had one before.
And some clothing had been, was gone from the house to further suggest that she had left the family for time, to have time to herself.
And interestingly, one part of the report, police, the report said, was the complainant or the husband agreeable to publicity?
And the answer was no.
There was evidence from some people that he was genuinely distraught days after he said that she'd gone missing.
But yeah, in those times, it would have really been through mainstream media, people who would have been watching TV news, of course, no internet in people's homes at the time.
There would have been a newspaper campaign, the newspapers in Western Australia at the time,
potentially front page.
Police would have, they would have been done press conferences, but they would have also been backgrounding reporters to say, we just don't have any leads on this.
And her husband is really distraught.