Predatory

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.

The first episode of Dear Rachelle is now available on all podcast platforms. If you’re looking for your next true crime podcast binge and you want to be first to hear what’s next, visit dearrachelle.com.au - your News Corp Australia subscription grants you access to podcast episodes three weeks before everyone else, as well as exclusive access to videos, interactive evidence, behind-the-scenes content, and more.

Dear Rachelle is a podcast from True Crime Australia.

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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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Subscribe to Crime X+ today To understand how to protect our kids from predators, we first have to understand how they operate. Gary and Madeleine sit down with Forensic Psychologist Dr Sarah Yule to get inside the mind of paedophiles. Later, Gary is joined by former Detective and Child interview Specialist Kristi McVee to learn about the challenges facing cops tracking down offenders.

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Subscribe to Crime X+ today Madeleine West is an actress, a podcaster and an activist, but she's also been hiding a secret for years that has been eating away at her and ruining her life. Now, she's stepping out of the shadows to tell the world her story, and in doing so, taking away the stigma of being a survivor.

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Madeleine West and Gary Jubelin have teamed up to tackle a topic that no one seems to want to talk about, but we have to. People love to talk about true crime, but when it comes to one of the biggest crime problems in the country, we stay silent. 

We’re talking about child sexual abuse, and we need to all speak up and get this conversation going. The pair are sitting down with survivors, experts and those working on the frontlines to combat this problem to bring you the best information possible to keep your kids safe.

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