Perfect Victim: A chilling account of a bizarre and callous murder. A mother's true story of her daughter's disappearance.

By Megan Norris, Elizabeth Southall, MEGAN SOUTHALL, ELIZABETH & NORRIS

One night in March 1999, fifteen-year-old dance student Rachel Elizabeth Barber vanished. No one could have guessed that she had become another girl's 'perfect' victim. Happy. Beautiful. Talented. She had everything her killer could want. Perceived by crime experts everywhere as one of the most bizarre homicides they had encountered, Perfect Victim recounts two stories- Rachel's mother Elizabeth Southall tells of her family's heart-rendering experience - how they lived through unimaginable tragedy, going to extraordinary lengths to prove their daughter wasn't a runaway. Criminal court reporter Megan Norris provides another side of the picture; the analysis, the astonishment of professionals when faced with the killer's weird and unsettling letters, and the police proceedings that led, eventually, to the Rachel Barber case being solved. Confronting and compelling, this is an incredible story about a callous and calculated crime. Also available from Foxtel Movies as 'In Her Skin' starring Guy Pearce, Miranda Otto and Sam Neill.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143001027
• ISBN13: 9780143001027
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Penguin Global
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 1.0" x 4.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher