David Webber

And that kind of publicity would make people think, gee, what about that thing I saw the other day, or that thing that was out of the ordinary?

So in this case, there doesn't seem to have been

that kind of effort because police, by and large, believed what Robert Fulton had told them about the last time he saw his wife.

In both cases, he came home, she wasn't there, and then days later said, oh, in fact, I dropped her off at a train station and she was going to meet someone.

While that may have rung some alarm bells, it wasn't enough to target him and charge him with anything at the time.

Yes, if you really want to find somebody, you go to police.

He left her for a few days and some explanation he gave later was that you're not supposed to or police can't do anything until somebody's been missing for a few days.

That is kind of true to an extent.

Police have to ensure that they haven't touched their bank accounts and all that kind of stuff.

But there is a period of time there.

that they leave before they actually start investigating as a missing person.

Now, whether Robert Fulton knew that back then, or whether he was just, uh, running a line, uh, only he knows, but, uh,

Certainly police, if they'd been advised by a man who was seriously concerned about his wife being missing, it was completely out of character, especially because she had the four children.

She was devoted to them.

She was part of their daily routine, getting them off to school while he worked at the RAF base.

It was completely out of character.

And that's what stands out.

Essentially, they came over from Queensland via, they'd been in Malaysia.

They were a RAF family.

So Robert Fulton, Maxwell Robert Fulton, his full name at the time, worked at the RAF airbase at Pierce.