Episode 20: The Girl She Wanted to Become - The Rachel Barber Case
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In this episode of TMTC, John tells Febriana about Rachel Barber who was 15 years old and training full-time at a performing arts school in Melbourne when she told her boyfriend she had a job after class.
An old female friend was going to pay her a lot of money. Rachel didn’t say the woman’s name. Then she never came home.
In this episode, we cover the murder of Rachel Barber and the case against Caroline Robertson, a former family friend and babysitter whose obsession with Rachel became much darker than ordinary jealousy.
Police would later uncover clothing that did not belong to Caroline, handwritten planning material, a fake identity, and a murder that had been thought through step by step.
This case raises disturbing questions about envy, self-hatred, identity, and what happens when someone stops seeing another person as real.
Listener discretion is advised. This episode discusses the murder of a minor, strangulation, body disposal, and psychological obsession.
