About This Episode
What is this episode about?
The episode "Lack of investigations" from Out From The Cold: Searching for Elaine covers the year 2004, when NSW Police made what the family of Elaine Johnson believe was the first official contact about her disappearance. Before that point, the family understood, police had not realised that Elaine's case and Kerry-Ann Joel's case were likely connected — even though Elaine was reported missing to Cronulla Police Station and Kerry to Miranda Police Station, just one suburb apart.
The episode details checks made through national police missing persons databases, electoral rolls, Centrelink, Births, Deaths and Marriages, major Australian banks, Interpol, Medicare and the Australian Tax Office. No records of either girl turned up after they went missing. Official documents shared by Elaine's family reveal that police searches conducted between 2004 and 2006 used the wrong name and the wrong date of birth, raising questions about why no trace of either woman was ever found.
Hosts and release
Host details for this production are not specified. The episode runs 26 minutes and was released on 2025-11-13 as episode 7 of the series, produced by Kate Kachor and Sally Spicer, with editing by Dan McHugh and Matt Haywood and artwork by Nic Watts. Listeners wanting to hear flere episoder af showet can find the full run of Searching for Elaine, part of Happy Tuesday Productions.
