Main Suspect in Rachelle Childs Cold Case Found Dead

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Rachelle Childs was a 23-year-old woman whose 2001 murder remains unsolved. Her former boss and main suspect, Kevin Correll, was recently found dead in a hotel room in Thailand.

Journalist Ashlea Hansen has been investigating the case for her podcast Dear Rachelle, which has uncovered new leads and raised fresh questions. She joins Australian True Crime from Thailand with the latest developments.

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0:00.0	The prime suspect in the cold case murder of Rochelle Childs has reportedly been found dead in Thailand.
0:06.5	69-year-old Kevin Stephen Carell was found dead while holidaying last week.
0:11.0	He was the key suspect in the murder since the 23-year-old's body was found in Giroa, south of Sydney, in 2001.
0:18.6	Rochelle Childs's family has previously pleaded for the case to be reopened with an increased
0:23.7	reward for new information.
0:30.6	A couple of months ago, we spoke to journalist Ashley Hanson about her upcoming podcast called
0:36.5	Dear Rochelle.
0:38.0	It was going to be a deep dive into the unsolved 2001 murder of 23-year-old
0:43.4	Rochelle Childs, whose charred remains were found in a shallow ditch near Giroa in
0:48.6	country New South Wales.
0:51.1	Ashley's investigation has come a long way since then.
0:56.3	Over recent months, she and her team had zeroed in on one person of interest, Rochelle's former boss, Kevin Carell. Well,
1:02.7	Correll was found dead last week in a hotel room in Thailand. Ashley Hansen is now in Thailand
1:09.4	following the story and she joins us on Australian True Crime with the latest.
1:14.2	This is Australian True Crime.
1:16.5	We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created,
1:21.1	the Wurundri Woi Wurang people of the Koolin Nation.
1:24.9	And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions
1:28.6	of sexual violence. Breaking up is never easy, but saying goodbye to your old clunky work
1:38.6	tools, well, that's easy. Just repeat after me. It's not me. It's definitely you.
1:45.3	You rigid, unfriendly software.
1:47.7	It's time to freshen things up with Monday.com.
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