About This Episode
What is this episode about?
The episode The Informant from Searching for Elaine covers a sudden development over the June long weekend in 2024, when the younger sister of Elaine Johnson, Helen, receives an unexpected stream of text messages from a man the show calls Roger.
Roger presents himself as an informant with information he says is sensitive enough to affect an active investigation. He tells Helen he reached out because a friend of his had known Elaine and Kerry. That friend is no longer alive to speak for himself, having died years earlier. According to Roger, before he passed, the man told him the two girls had been taken to a property in the NSW Southern Tablelands, where something happened to them. Roger frames passing this information to Helen as his late friend's dying wish, throwing the family's understanding of the case into fresh uncertainty.
Hosts and release
The show's own credited team lists production by Kate Kachor and Sally Spicer, with editing by Dan McHugh and Matt Haywood, and artwork by Nic Watts. Specific hosting credits are not stated, so the hosts are listed as Unknown. The episode runs 24 minutes and was released on 2025-11-18 as the eighth installment of the series. Searching for Elaine is produced as part of Out From The Cold, under Happy Tuesday Productions. Listeners interested in the broader investigation can find flere episoder af showet for additional context on how the case has developed across the series.
