Lucan’s disappearance has puzzled police for 50 years, but the Stonehouse mystery lasted just over a month. On Christmas Eve, Stonehouse had to confess his true identity. Later, at Melbourne Police Headquarters, he asked if he could call his wife in the UK. Although she didn’t realize it at the time, the phone conversation in which he made the explosive remarks to her was recorded.
“Hello, darling. Well, they found a false identity here. From all of this, you will realize that I was deceiving you. I’m sorry about that, but in a way, everything is I’m glad it’s over.” Mr Stonehouse remained in custody for several days before joining his family in Australia and later his girlfriend.
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A month after his reappearance, he gave an interview to the BBC’s Australian correspondent. bob friend. He blamed his actions on developing a “split personality, with the new personality releasing the old one, which had been under considerable stress and strain.” When asked how he could make his wife and family endure such pain, he said: “I was trying to make their lives easier by disappearing…I was trying to take some of the tension out of my old personality and make their lives easier.”
Although Stonehouse was still an MP, he rejected a suggestion that he should forgo his parliamentary fees while he was 12,000 miles away from his constituency. He said, “Many members of the Diet visit foreign countries and conduct fact-finding surveys.I have conducted fact-finding studies not only from a geographical perspective, but also from the inner perspective of political animals.Nowadays.” spoke. The tour will be very interesting and I foolishly think that if I can explain my experience well then the MP’s salary will be well justified. He added: “I think members of Congress, like people in other professions, are entitled to certain accommodations while they are suffering from some kind of illness.”
You only die twice
Stonehouse tried to remain in Australia for seven months but was eventually deported and escorted home by Scotland Yard detectives. In August 1976, after a 68-day trial on charges related to his failed business, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for theft, fraud and fraud. He was released from prison three years later while recovering from open heart surgery, but suffered three cardiac arrests while in the hospital.
His wife divorced him in 1978, and three years later he married Buckley, his former secretary. He died a second time in 1988, but this time for real. The 62-year-old collapsed three weeks ago, just before he was scheduled to appear on a TV program about missing persons.
