We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,

and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.

Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.

Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,

our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bizina in

Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is recorded.

We pay our respects to their elders, past and present, and to Aboriginal

elders emerging.

The following podcast contains content of a graphic violent nature and is not suitable for children.

Just the way she carried herself was just, you know, she lit up the room and that's, you know,

even the first time we ever met.

She just had this presence about that people wanted to be around.

I'm not going to see why, you know, some of the richest guys around Sydney would want to be with her

because, you know, she was stunning and she could

hold a conversation. That's Clinton Barta who met a beautiful girl called Ravel in a Sydney nightclub in early 1994.

They dated for a few months, but it peated out naturally as these things do,

and they both moved on to new relationships with no hard feelings.

In November of that same year Ravel disappeared in

sensational circumstances. When she failed to meet her mother Jan for Sunday

lunch, alarm bells rang immediately.

The two were very close and standing her mum up was something Ravel simply wouldn't do.

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