Lonely hearts ad led another woman to key witness in Marion Barter’s disappearance, inquest hears

Coroner seeking to establish what happened to Gold Coast school teacher, subject of The Lady Vanishes podcast

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Ghislaine Dubois-Danlois was 72 and at a low point in her life when she put a lonely hearts ad in a newspaper in 2006. A widow, she was “exhausted” and “wanted to think about something new”.

“I wasn’t looking into the future,” she told a Lismore court via satellite link from her home in Brussels on Wednesday.

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