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My name is Marion Julius, and I am wanting to share my story with the world to tell you all the dangers of helping with a missing persons/murder investigation case. I am from Australia and over the years I have experienced something which was very unpleasant and upsetting I want to warn people. As I do not want other people or families to suffer like I did we see on television and in the newspaper that the police in our state or country ask people in the public to come forward to help with a case when someone goes missing. I want to tell the world what happened to me and to say to you this be incredibly careful if you decide to come forward with information to help a victim’s family or the police. What happened to me could also happen to you I first saw an article in a magazine many years ago about a missing girl Revelle Balmain who went missing in 1994. I wanted to reach out and help her family, so I contacted the magazine who then passed on my letter to the Balmain family. Even though back then I never knew her, and I never knew anything about it I felt compelled to help this girl and her family. I was also intrigued by the mystery having an interest in missing persons stories I always watch them at home it also triggered something in me I wanted to find her. I thought maybe its me wanting to get a career which does this something like investigations I was not sure but wanted to keep helping this girl. After I received a letter from Jan Balmain who is Revelle Balmain’s mother she then gave me Revelles sisters contact details after this I contacted her sister. Having met with Revelles sister a few years later I had just kept writing to her mostly by email however at times would write letters and post them in the mail. The family seemed okay with me helping at the time so I thought it would be okay to keep going trying to find this girl.

I had no experience in this line of work before and was happy to go out and volunteer looking around for her and asking people if they knew about it. Her sister had sent me a photograph of Revelle with a personal belonging of hers through the mail which I had borrowed then later returned. Having gone to the library and other places where I had gone through the many newspaper articles about this case. Also, over the years I had began to have dreams about this girl Revelle it was as though this girl was trying to tell me things, I have had so many dreams about her too many. I enjoyed helping this family I liked helping it was not like a job to me I was just so happy to help her even though at the time I never really knew what I was doing. And I did not know what I was in for I never thought about anything negative then to me I just wanted to find this girl. I wanted to tell people that it can become extremely dangerous, frustrating, and annoying later if you do go through any situation like this. There will be days you will cry and be terribly angry and you feel like just throwing and kicking things then there will be days you will have to run around trying to get help. You might be having to repeat yourself over and over trying to get yourself heard so you can be helped it really can become a bad thing if you are not careful.

After many years Revelles sister had told me to let it go and get on with my life I can understand how she had felt being angry, upset, and tired of waiting. I would have like to of let it go but I still felt that I was being victimised by persons, so I had to keep telling the police. Sometimes I would put it as an anonymous message and other times would use my name, I had kept writing online blogging and put-up websites so that the police could see people are suffering and so they would have to do something. It was like we tell the police every year and this problem goes on and on for so many years then the problem escalates and get worse. If you help someone who is going through this or you want to help someone who went missing or who got murdered make sure you have a good plan and prepare yourself for a worse case scenario. Things can get out of hand and most times there will be days things are out of your control and you will not know what to do. And then you will find yourself living in fear, worrying, and having panic attacks.

Telling my story is not about blaming others or taking out revenge telling my story is about making others aware of what goes on, what happened to me and so it is up to people to think and believe what they want. I cannot go on in life knowing that I had this story, this knowledge and information and did not share it with the world. The whole point was to do this so that it can reach out to many Australians so it can help them when if they are to ever go through this. Right now, there is so many Australians and people all over the world who are in this situation wanting to find a loved one who is missing or wanting to know who the killer is. It is like an ongoing issue all over but still the good people keep praying, hoping, and searching and the bad guys keep telling lies, deny and hide. And I do realise and know that there are also good police officers and detectives also, so this is no disrespect to them they care, they work hard, and they try. My anger is from those who did wrong to me the cops and the bad guys because it hurts and being the person, I am I cannot let them get away with it.

When I thought of this girl Revelle Balmain and I went out asking people if they knew anything, I did meet some people who heard about her. I even found people who had been working for Select Companions and found a girl who worked for Zoran and Jenny the escort agency owners at the time. This girl did some babysitting for them I also met another girl who knew of this Select Companions she remembers Zoran would speak in this foreign language. But when I asked the girls to come forward and tell the police things, they refused one girl got so angry at me because she uses to do Reception work for Select Companions. I heard many things perhaps rumours such as a pimp did it the one girl said she thought the main suspect was involved I thought it was odd that I found these people, but the police never found them. I think these people were maybe too scared or maybe they even knew more but could not say I thought it is sad that they chose not to help. Having gone many places searching for this missing girl Revelle Balmain I knew that I could get something for the police and her family I was not too sure how or when, but I felt confident I could get some piece of useful information. Over the year’s rumours were spread and there was gossip and people saying their own theories about what happened I knew that getting to the bottom of it could be possible it was just going to take some time.

It was a mystery, but I just thought there must be someone out there who could figure it all out so maybe I could be that person I thought. I got the feeling people began to start hating and disliking me because I chose to help this girl, but I did not care I just kept going it did not worry me. Since helping this missing girl I have been called names and been told off by people but over the years I got so use to it now days it does not bother me anymore, but I keep going finding justice. I realised that I am not out to go and please other people I was out to do what I wanted to do and that was find her and figure this out. I did not care if people never liked me, so I do remember going out to so many places most times it led to a dead-end other time I find people, but it was like they we are hiding the truth why I do not know. With all this going on I was not going to let some bad guys destroy my life so I fought back as best I could. Continuing to get on with my life I just became stronger over the years and toughened up nothing bothered me after all this. I felt if I can face this which was quite bad then I think I can face anything. I think it is important to share my story because this problems are ongoing people going missing and being murdered. And people being being stalked and bullied so I want people to know they are not alone.

Marion Julius continues to be strong and positive