Australia Australia- Rachelle Childs, 23, car saleswoman, murdered, fingers removed & her body set alight, her car found @ the Bargo Hotel, NSW, 8 June 2001.

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Reward doubled to $200,000 as investigators renew appeal into the death of Rachelle Childs - NSW Police Public Site

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''Homicide Squad detectives investigating the death of 23-year-old Rachelle Childs on the NSW South Coast 10 years ago are renewing their appeal for information.

Meanwhile, the Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Michael Gallacher, has announced that the $100,000 reward on offer to solve the crime has been doubled to $200,000.

Rachelle Child's partially-burned body was located in a shallow ditch off Crooked River Road, near the town of Gerroa, on the morning of Friday 8 June 2001.

Despite exhaustive inquiries by detectives and a Coronial Inquest into Rachelle's death, the person responsible has never been located.

"This was a deeply shocking incident that left a small town reeling and we need the community's help to solve this crime," said the acting Commander of the Homicide Squad, Detective Acting Superintendent Mick Sheehy.

"We still haven't been able to confirm what happened to Rachelle that Friday morning or what her movements were the night before, but we do know she was supposed to meet someone at the Bargo Hotel."

"In addition, her vehicle was found secure in the car park of the Bargo Hotel after her body was located."

Det Supt Sheehy added that Rachelle was well-liked within the community. "She was a trusting and caring woman who excelled in her career as a car saleswoman and also represented NSW Cricket," he said.

"Someone out there knows what happened to Rachelle and we need them to come forward so we can solve this matter and give closure to Rachelle's family."

The reward of up to $200,000 is payable for information that leads to the conviction of the person or people responsible for Rachelle's death.''
 
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October 30, 2011
www.smh.com.au

Desperately seeking clues

RACHELLE CHILDS would never go alone to meet a stranger or someone she didn't trust, her father says. But, after work on the night of June 7, 2001, the beautiful and popular young woman supposedly went to see someone at the Bargo Hotel, south of Sydney.
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''RACHELLE CHILDS would never go alone to meet a stranger or someone she didn't trust, her father says. But, after work on the night of June 7, 2001, the beautiful and popular young woman supposedly went to see someone at the Bargo Hotel, south of Sydney.
About seven hours later, her badly burnt body was discovered in bush near Seven Mile Beach, not far from the South Coast village of Gerroa, 90 kilometres from her Bargo home.''
Ms Childs's former boss at Camden Holden, Kevin Correll, was a prime suspect, named as one of nine persons of interest.
When he appeared at the inquest, he declined to answer several questions on the grounds the answers might incriminate him. He denied killing Ms Childs.
Her beloved blue Holden Commodore was found in the pub's car park two days after her body was discovered.''
2006
''THE prime suspect in Sydney woman Rachelle Childs' murder was yesterday asked to explain how he knew the young woman's fingers were severed at the time of her death.
Ms Childs' former boss Kevin Correll had allegedly told three witnesses that her hand or fingers were removed in the 2001 killing, an inquest at Glebe Coroner's Court was told.

But it was only after the state coroner recently ordered her body be exhumed that forensic tests confirmed some of Ms Childs' fingers were no longer attached.''
 
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‘Panicked’: Three ways Rachelle’s killer covered their tracks​

Rachelle Childs’ killer made three “panicked” but critical moves that could provide police with a way to use modern DNA testing to find a suspect''.
Mar 21, 2025 #truecrimeaustralia #truecrime #crimestory
Link to Episodes: www.dearrachelle.com.auUnited to investigate the case for the Dear Rachelle podcast, an unstoppable cold case team including retired detective Damian Loone, investigative journalist Ashlea Hansen and Rachelle Childs' sister Kristy, have uncovered damning new evidence.
 
March 24 2025
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News Corp launches cross-platform series 'Dear Rachelle'

News Corp Australia has rolled out a new true crime series, Dear Rachelle: The Hunt For My Sister’s Killer, a ten-part investigative project.
www.mediaweek.com.au www.mediaweek.com.au
''News Corp Australia has rolled out a new true crime series, Dear Rachelle: The Hunt For My Sister’s Killer, a ten-part investigative project delivered across podcast, video, and digital editorial.

At the centre is the unsolved 2001 murder of 23-year-old Rachelle Childs, whose body was found burned on the NSW South Coast hours after she arranged to meet someone at a local pub.

For more than two decades, her family and friends have fought for answers. Did Rachelle know her killer? Who was she supposed to be meeting at the Bargo Hotel the night she died? Now a new cold case team has unearthed damning new evidence.''
 

Dear Rachelle investigation: Investigators highlight similarities in fish and chip alibi of key suspect in Rachelle’s murder​


Investigators were struck by the detailed similarities of fish and chips orders provided by Kevin Steven Correll in his alibis for two unrelated crimes 18 years apart.


Might be behind a paywall. Posting it here for those who subscribe.
 
 
January 19, 2007 rbbm. lengthy.
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Pointing the fingers from her grave

The exhumed remains of a murdered car yard worker may offer a clue to the identity of her killer, write Kate McClymont and Jennifer Cooke.
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'With his dyed hair slicked back and his fancy footwork on the dance floor, Kevin Correll cut a carefree figure as he danced the night away and posed for photos at a "singles" do at Canterbury Leagues Club on December 8.'

''Privately, Correll went further, telling several friends that Childs's fingers had been cut off - a sure sign of punishment for crossing the bikies.
However, it was not until investigators began sifting through all the evidence in preparation for the inquest that this snippet of information became known.''

''Before her death, on the eve of the 2001 June long weekend, Rachelle Childs had a big few days planned, the highlight of which was Correll's promise of the use of a rare limited edition Holden - a Walkinshaw.''

''Correll also claimed that while waiting for his girlfriend to arrive he had gone to Tahmoor, between Picton and Bargo, to buy a battered sav, a piece of fish and chips. Coincidentally, this was what he told police in 1983 over the attempted armed rape in Darlinghurst.
Cornwall, as he was then known, claimed he was in Liverpool buying "a battered sav, a piece of fish, a bag of chips and a loaf of bread".
 
“Police undertook a mass voluntary DNA screening in 2003, a first for a murder investigation in NSW, but it did not provide any further clues as to who killed Rachelle.”
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'Fresh eyes' on gruesome cold case murder

Rachelle Childs was gruesomely murdered on the New South Wales south coast in 2001, and despite a $200,000 ...
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''The podcast team at News Corp are now working with Rachelle’s family and ex-detectives to re-investigate the case and uncover long-forgotten evidence. So far, the podcast has had more than a million downloads and captivated international audiences, dominating the charts on Spotify and Apple.''
Rachelle Childs was killed when she was just 23 years of age.

Rachelle Childs was killed when she was just 23 years of age.
''What the rudimentary police investigation did uncover was that unleaded petrol was poured on the face of Rachelle, who was 23, and very specific parts of her body in an apparent attempt to hide DNA evidence, before she was dumped at a concrete tank near Gerroa, about 100km away from her home.

Her semi-nude state suggests her death was sexually motivated, and the killing was violent – likely by smothering or strangulation. She also knew her attacker because she sat with him in her prized 1978 Holden Commodore as they drove down the NSW south coast together.''
 

Dear Rachelle investigation: Bizarre discovery in key murder suspect’s home​

“Creepy details have emerged about what was found inside the home of a key suspect in the murder of Rachelle Childs. Listen to the latest podcast episode.

EXCLUSIVE: Rachelle Childs’ suspected killer left newspaper clippings of her case under the carpet of a unit he rented, his former landlord has revealed.”


 
I found plenty of info on Cornwall’s brother…. Scary guy!!

Trackers, curfews and travel bans: Inside state’s fight to keep tabs on notorious paedophile Raymond Barry Cornwall​

January, 2023

“The State of NSW is attempting to impose supervision orders on a notorious paedophile and rapist following his release from prison.”



 

Dear Rachelle investigation: Ex-wife’s chilling details of key suspect in Rachelle Childs’ murder​

The ex-wife of the main suspect in the brutal murder of 23-year-old Rachelle Childs has broken her silence about her fears.
Patrick Carlyon and Ashlea Hansen

4 min read
May 9, 2025 - 5:00AM
National News Network

“Elise” still feels the chill of the words delivered 30 years ago.

She was driving past Warilla Beach, south of Sydney, with her husband at the time, Kevin Steven Correll.

“He threatened to, if I ever left him, he would hunt me down and find me,” she said.

“He would cut me up in little pieces, bury me on the beach in individual spots, (and) cover me in lime so nobody could smell that there were body parts …”

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I found a link for Cornwall/Correll to Warilla (postcode 2528) on the ABN site back in 2003.

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