On 1 March 1999, fifteen-year-old Rachel Elizabeth Barber disappeared after leaving dance class in Richmond, Victoria. Eleven days later, police located her body on a property near Kilmore after nineteen-year-old Caroline Reed Robertson confessed to her murder.
The case shocked Australia because the offender was not a stranger. Caroline Robertson was known to Rachel and her family, having previously babysat Rachel. What initially appeared to be the disappearance of a teena
