Here on Stolen Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children.

Themes may include child murder, torture, and sexual domestic and child abuse.

I do try my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories

and leave out unnecessary details that honestly, none of us need to know to understand the frustration

of why and how this ever happened.

However, if you find any of these themes triggering this podcast may not be for you.

Listen, our discretion is advised.

Australia, October, 1992.

A 12-year-old girl is enjoying her spring break from school.

Unlike a lot of girls her age, she had an overseas pen-pal.

And in this era before, instant messages,

if she wanted to wish her pen pal a Merry Christmas with a Christmas card via the

international post. It had to happen now. So innocently, she left her home on this day to purchase

the Christmas card, and she would return home, only to leave again, just 10 minutes before her mother

returned home, never to be seen again.

What could entice Rihanna to leave the safety of her own home?

Did she know her would be suspected murderer?

Or was the unknown perpetrator, the strange men in the white Tirana?

These questions remain unanswered almost three decades later,

living Rihanna's family and their small, peaceful town, still desperate for justice.

This is Rihanna's story.

In October 1992, South Australia's attention was captured by devastating floods,

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