An alleged killer made a chilling phone call from a quiet country town nestled on the banks of the Murray River in 1989.

The numbers he is alleged to have dialled would lead to his arrest over the abduction, rape and murder of an Albury beauty queen some 25 years later.

Police will allege Colin Michael Newey, now 61, was in his home town of Murray Bridge, just outside of Adelaide, when he saw a television program that unsettled him.

The show linked notorious Victorian paedophile "Mr Stinky" to the murder of teenager Bronwynne Richardson, who was killed in Albury near the NSW-Victorian border in October 1973.

It will be alleged he made an anonymous call to his local police station and told them the program was incorrect. He had been present at the time of the 17-year-old's death, he is alleged to have said.