Introducing Dear Rachelle

The Teacher's Pet

The Australian

News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 10.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

For two decades, the family of murdered 23-year-old woman Rachelle Childs have fought for answers. Though her killer is still at large, they believe her case case can be solved.

Dear Rachelle is hosted and investigated by journalist Ashlea Hansen, together with retired detective and cold case specialist Damian Loone, who appeared in The Australian’s award-winning podcast series The Teacher’s Pet and The Teacher’s Trial.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Kristen from the Australian.
0:02.7	I wanted to let you know about a new investigative podcast series
0:06.0	produced by some of our colleagues.
0:08.1	It's called Dear Rochelle, and it's available now.
0:11.2	Here's the trailer.
0:17.8	I'm driving through.
0:19.8	I've seen this fire
0:21.5	on the right hand side
0:22.6	grabbed me a torch
0:24.8	and all of a sudden I've got this flash of a gold
0:28.6	in my face
0:29.4	and I'll go on it back
0:31.9	and there was a bengal on a hand
0:34.9	burnt body was found on a lonely South Coast road.
0:39.0	The 23-year-old disappeared from a pub in Bargo.
0:42.1	The callous way that she was dubbed here and just discarded like a piece of rubbish and set on fire.
0:47.3	A young woman in a prime of a life.
0:50.0	Her name was Rochelle Childs.
0:52.8	And her killer has eluded police for more than two decades.
0:57.6	My big sister was vivacious.
0:59.9	She was everything to me growing up.
1:02.0	She was attractive, friendly, funny, but loved cars.
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