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INTRODUCING Dear Rachelle

Mar 16, 20253 min
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Episode description

“My beautiful sister, Rachelle Childs, was violently taken from us when I was just 18. My big sister was vivacious, hilarious and kind. She was my mentor, my protector, my best friend. I looked up to her so much. Now I know she's looking down on me. Willing me to find the person who killed her.” 

Kristy Childs’s sister Rachelle was murdered. No one has ever been charged with the crime.

The 23-year-old’s body was discovered, burning and partially undressed, on a remote Australian coastal road in June 2001.

For more than two decades, her family and friends have fought for answers.

Did Rachelle know her killer? Who was she supposed to be meeting at the Bargo Hotel the night she died? 

Now an unstoppable cold case team has unearthed damning new evidence.

Dear Rachelle is hosted and investigated by journalist Ashlea Hansen, who teams up with retired detective and renowned cold case specialist Damian Loone.

Want to be first to hear what happens next? You can enjoy early access to the latest podcast episodes with an eligible digital News Corp Australia subscription by visiting dearrachelle.com.au and subscribing today. It also grants you exclusive access to videos, interactive evidence, behind the scenes and extras.

Episodes will drop into this podcast app weekly from Friday 4th April. 

Dear Rachelle is a podcast by True Crime Australia

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Transcript

Speaker 1

Dolphins through. I've seen this fire on the right hand side, grabbed me to watch, and all of a sudden, I've got this flash of a gold in my face, and I've gone back and there was a Bengal on a head.

Speaker 2

Burnt body was found on a lonely South Coast road. The twenty three year old disappeared from a pub in Bargo.

Speaker 1

The callous way that she was dubbed here and just discarded like a piece of rubbish and set on fire.

Speaker 3

A young woman in a prime of alive.

Speaker 2

Her name was Rochelle Chance and her killer has eluded police for more than two decades.

Speaker 4

My big sister was vivacious. She was everything to me growing up.

Speaker 2

She was attractive, friendly, funny, but loved cars.

Speaker 3

One of the.

Speaker 4

Members of Rockies team. She really cared about the people around her. We just all got ripped off and and her especially.

Speaker 2

This case should never have been left to run cold.

Speaker 4

It has been twenty three years. It's time for the truth to come out.

Speaker 2

Join some of Australia's sharpest criminal minds in this live investigation.

Speaker 4

I think the person who killed her would be worried about this podcast.

Speaker 3

I'm absolutely sure that we've interviewed the crawl. Isn't that brief?

Speaker 4

Have we got a sherial killer on her hand?

Speaker 1

When you're dealing with sex offenders, it takes years of experience to realize how clever they are.

Speaker 4

What would it mean to find justice everything? I'd just love to see person off the streets. There's no doubt about it. A read odd suspect.

Speaker 2

Richelle was killed by someone she knew.

Speaker 4

She was very trusting, and I think she'd trust to the wrong person. People say to me, oh, you know you're going to be a suspect, and they're like, oh, you have the ex boyfriend? What do you mean? Like hot? I'll think aboutable lot.

Speaker 2

Sorry, People too afraid to speak out for decades of breaking their silence for a shell.

Speaker 4

He doesn't scare me at all anymore.

Speaker 3

What you're doing is potentially very valuable to the public, but potentially very harmful to a dangerous person. I'm afraid you fit the profile.

Speaker 4

He's in and around everything like he's just there. My heart was racing, it was confronting. I will never have peace until my sister's murderer is found. My worst fear is that person who Gil Rochelle has killed again. This is solvable. Iffender responsible for this crime. It's still alive. He's the Devil.

Speaker 2

Deer a Shell a groundbreaking podcast series exclusively from True Crime Australia hosted by me Ashley Hanson, available now. Visit Dearroshell dot com dot a U for more. That's d E A R R A C h E w l E dot com dot a U.

Speaker 4

You can run away, but you can't hide.

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