Podcaster Nichole Overall and Steven Rowland at the launch of “Capital Crime Files”. Photo: Belinda Strahorn
THE unsolved murder of Canberra’s Keren Rowland has resonated with journalist and historian Nichole Overall in a very personal way.
Ms Overall was very young herself when Ms Rowland, 20, disappeared on the night of the Canberra Show, on February 26, 1971.
Ms Rowland’s body was found in the Fairbairn pine plantation near the ACT’s Air Disaster Memorial three months later, she was five months pregnant.
Fifty years on, the cause of her death is still unknown.
It’s a “harrowing” crime that has stayed with Ms Overall for over half a century.