A new episode of 7 News Spotlight is digging into one of Western Australia’s most haunting cold cases, and the questions are louder than ever.
Airs Sunday, April 20, 2025, at 8:45 PM on Seven, the episode titled Mystery Survivor revisits the 2015 outback disappearance of Jennie Kehlet and the death of her husband Ray. What began as a prospecting trip ended with Ray’s body found down a Sandstone mineshaft. Jennie was never seen again.
Reporter Liam Bartlett returns to the case with new leads and sharper angles. His investigation challenges the official timeline and puts the spotlight squarely on the couple’s travel companion, Graham Milne, the sole survivor of the trip.
Bartlett’s team tracks down fresh witnesses and commissions independent forensic work to revisit the evidence, including work by renowned DNA expert Dr. Dennis McNevin. Milne’s own daughter, Sarah Hopkins, makes a devastating claim on camera, accusing her father of hiding what really happened.
The program also features Rick Heaton, a former ADF soldier who joined the original search. He says he uncovered items that should have changed the course of the police investigation, including a bullet casing and Ray Kehlet’s buried shirt. Both, he says, were dismissed.
Bartlett calls out failures in the original inquiry and flags major discrepancies in Milne’s account. The episode leans on hard forensic analysis and personal testimony to reframe the story as one of missed signals, official silence and disturbing gaps.
Mystery Survivor isn’t just a revisit. It’s a reckoning. With public scrutiny building and digital sleuths already re-engaging with the case online, Seven is betting that this could be the moment the mystery breaks open.
