My name is Paige and I'm the host of Reverie True Crime.

Reverie means to daydream, but even daydreams can turn into nightmares.

Join me as I tell you haunting and horrific reveries about missing people and senseless murders.

I also interview survivors and people seeking justice for themselves or a loved one.

New episodes come out every Monday morning and sometimes you'll get bonus episodes on Thursdays.

Wherever you're listening to this current podcast right now, you can find Revery True Crime.

Astray. 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 ten 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,

leaving 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, which swept

through the Adelaide hills and plains. But as rescues and recoveries were underway, another more sinister story was unfolding in Adelaide's southern suburbs. Please come forward. I just want my daughter back. It's not the same at home.

A 12-year-old schoolgirl would vanish from her home, never to be seen again.

Paul arrived home at 10 past 4 in the afternoon and Rihanna wasn't here.

Rihanna Ann Barrow was born to parents Leon and Paula Barrow in 1980.

The family already had a boy, Shannon, born two years earlier.

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