David Webber

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.

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.