Rachel Barber was born in nineteen eighty-four in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. She was the first child of Mike and Elizabeth Barber and was soon followed by two younger sisters. To the outside world, the Barbers appeared to be an ideal family. Rachel was a talented and beautiful girl who showed a passion for ballet from the age of six. Her parents supported her dreams, and she eventually became a standout student at the prestigious Dance Factory in Richmond. By the time she was fifteen, Rachel was popular, successful in dance, and in a relationship with a seventeen-year-old boyfriend named Emmanuel, who was also involved in the arts.However, Rachel life was being watched by someone who desperately wanted everything she had. Caroline Robertson was born in nineteen eighty and lived in the same area. Her childhood was marked by emotional instability and a difficult relationship with her mother. Caroline struggled with her weight and was frequently bullied at school, which led to severe self-esteem issues. From the age of twelve, she kept diaries filled with self-hatred and dark thoughts. When her parents separated when she was sixteen, she chose to use her mother maiden name.Caroline met Rachel when she began working as a babysitter for the Barber family. She became obsessed with Rachel, viewing her as a symbol of perfection. This obsession was not just admiration but a desire to literally become Rachel. Caroline began recording Rachel every move in her diaries, stealing her clothes, and even attempting to change her own legal records to match Rachel birth date. She eventually moved into her own apartment and worked in telecommunications, but her focus remained entirely on the younger girl.On the first of March, nineteen ninety-nine, Caroline put a horrific plan into motion. She contacted Rachel and offered her a sum of money, possibly five hundred dollars, to participate in a supposed psychological study. Rachel, wanting the money to buy a pair of shoes, agreed to meet Caroline in secret. After Rachel arrived at Caroline home, she was given pizza that had been drugged with sedatives. Once the girl was unconscious, Caroline strangled her using a telephone cord.To hide the crime, Caroline wrapped the body in a rug and hired a transport service to move it to her father property in Kilmore. She told the movers the bundle was a statue. She then buried Rachel in a shallow grave on the property. Despite her attempt to return to a normal routine, Rachel disappearance was immediately noticed by her parents when she failed to meet her father at a tram stop at seven in the evening.The police investigation initially moved slowly, but a breakthrough occurred when a friend of Rachel reported seeing her with a girl who did not fit in with her usual social circle. Investigators traced a blocked call made to the Barber residence to Caroline Robertson. When officers arrived at Caroline apartment, they found her unconscious following a seizure. Near her lay the diaries that detailed her entire plan to murder Rachel.The evidence was overwhelming. Caroline had even planned her life after the murder, applying for a loan of ten thousand dollars and creating a new identity using a name related to Rachel family. In the year two thousand, Caroline was sentenced to prison for the killing. She served over fifteen years and was released in twenty-fifteen. Upon her release, it was noted that she had significantly altered her appearance, looking much more like the girl she had murdered years before. This tragic story remains a chilling example of the devastating consequences of extreme envy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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