A young woman murdered in an Australian country town. People too afraid to speak for decades are finally breaking their silence.  What happened in 23-year-old Rachelle Childs' final nine hours?  

Now, 24 years since Rachelle was murdered, an unstoppable cold case team has assembled to drive this live investigation.

Tips from the public are pouring in - could you hold the missing piece that cracks the case?

Dear Rachelle is hosted and investigated by journalist Ashlea Hansen, who teams up with retired detective and renowned cold case specialist Damian Loone.

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A killer is on the loose in an Australian country town.

Excited for the June long weekend, bubbly 23-year-old Rachelle Childs leaves work, calls her sister, and is dead within hours. Her burning, partially naked body is found nine hours later in bushland on a lonely coastal road. Her killer has never been caught.

Now innocent people, once too afraid to speak, are breaking their silence.

If you’re looking for your next true crime podcast obsession, search out Dear Rachelle.

An unstoppable cold case team is reinvestigating and uncovering damning new evidence. Could this finally be the break the family needs?

Dear Rachelle is hosted and investigated by journalist Ashlea Hansen, who teams up with retired detective and renowned cold case specialist Damian Loone.

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Dear Rachelle is a podcast from True Crime Australia.

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Gary speaks to the old friend - and former convict - who once told him they breed animals in prison. Inside Macquarie, he is there as one of the prisoners gets ready to be let out - and Gary realises how much this experience has changed him.

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The daughter of a prisoner facing an eight-year stretch tells Gary what prison time costs those on the inside - as well as their families. Back inside Macquarie, her dad sits down to talk about how he ended up in prison, as well as his hopes and fears on release.

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Sitting next to Macquarie, Wellington maximum security prison is a physical reminder that there is another corrections system out there, where they still do things the hard way. Gary pays it a visit and comes face-to-face with a man who’s spent five years in solitary.

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Gary sits down behind a closed door with some of the toughest men inside the prison. By the time he walks out, everything he thought he knew about jail has shifted.

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As an ex-cop, few of those inside Macquarie are willing to talk to Gary, let alone to trust him. Then one prisoner opens up about what brought him to the prison and what it’s done to him since he got there.

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Former homicide detective Gary Jubelin walks into the maximum security Macquarie prison, facing up to the kind of criminals he used to put inside there. An old friend once told him they breed animals in prison - but this is something different.

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Join former homicide detective Gary Jubelin as he goes into a maximum security prison. During a career spent locking up murderers, gang leaders and rapists, Jubelin didn’t care what happened to them after. Deep inside the prison walls he discovers how you can lock men up and turn them into animals – but one day, they are going to be released. Subscribe to Crime X+ today.

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The Australian Federal Police take us into the dark web, where they catch predators in the act, and  Kirra Pendergast, Founder and CEO of Safe on Social reveals just how much information you are accidentally revealing about your children online.

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