NEW PODCAST: Dear Rachelle

A killer is on the loose in an Australian country town.

Excited for the June long weekend, bubbly 23-year-old Rachelle Childs leaves work, calls her sister, and is dead within hours. Her burning, partially naked body is found nine hours later in bushland on a lonely coastal road. Her killer has never been caught.

Now innocent people, once too afraid to speak, are breaking their silence.

If you’re looking for your next true crime podcast obsession, search out Dear Rachelle.

An unstoppable cold case team is reinvestigating and uncovering damning new evidence. Could this finally be the break the family needs?

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

The first episode of Dear Rachelle is now available on all podcast platforms. If you’re looking for your next true crime podcast binge and you want to be first to hear what’s next, visit dearrachelle.com.au - your News Corp Australia subscription grants you access to podcast episodes three weeks before everyone else, as well as exclusive access to videos, interactive evidence, behind-the-scenes content, and more.

Dear Rachelle is a podcast from True Crime Australia.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
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 (00:23):
Burnt body was found on a lonely South Coast road.
The twenty three year old disappeared from a pub in Bargo.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
The callous way that she was dubbed here and just
discarded like a piece of rubbish and set on fire.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
A young woman in a prime of alive.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Her name was Rochelle Chance and her killer has eluded
police for more than two decades.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
My big sister was vivacious. She was everything to me
growing up.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
She was attractive, friendly, funny, but loved cars.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
One of the.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Members of Rockies team. She really cared about the people
around her. We just all got ripped off and and
her especially.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
This case should never have been left to run cold.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
It has been twenty three years. It's time for the
truth to come out.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Join some of Australia's sharpest criminal minds in this live investigation.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
I think the person who killed her would be worried
about this podcast.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
I'm absolutely sure that we've interviewed the crawl. Isn't that brief?

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Have we got a sherial killer on her hand?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
When you're dealing with sex offenders, it takes years of
experience to realize how clever they are.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
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 (01:47):
Richelle was killed by someone she knew.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
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 (02:01):
Sorry, People too afraid to speak out for decades of
breaking their silence for a shell.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
He doesn't scare me at all anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
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 (02:20):
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 (02:49):
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Speaker 4 (03:10):
You can run away, but you can't hide.