Rochelle grew up in Melbourne in a police family. Her father William was a policeman in Victoria Police and retired as a Chief Superintendent. She began her career in country Victoria and Sydney working in television and radio. Rochelle worked as a TV producer and investigative journalist for Channel 7's Today Tonight, ABC’s Australian Story, George Negus’s New Dimensions, The Investigators, Channel 9’s Watchdog and TV NZ’s 60 Minutes.

She produced a one-hour documentary for ABC TV 50 Years of News & Current Affairs in Victoria in 2006. She has also produced a four-part series about bush fire arson for ABC’s Radio National early in that year.

Rochelle won a Special Citation for a Channel 7 story in the United Nations Association of Australia’s Media Peace Awards and was part of the ABC Investigators team that won a TV Week Logie Award for a special report on the NSW Homefund Scheme. She also worked for the NSW Police Service, producing internal TV bulletins and promotional videos.

She has written two true crime books, her latest is Inside their Minds: Australian Criminals by Allen & Unwin in August 2008.  

Rochelle is currently a freelance journalist working at 774 ABC Radio and writing for The Big Issue and the Herald Sun. She co-hosts 'The Crime Couch' on 774 ABC Radio Melbourne every second Tuesday at 7.30pm on Derek Guille's evening program.
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