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IN THE MEDIA
New Zealand Herald
Swedish tourist mystery: Guilt Podcast - True Crime’s Ryan Wolf and his search for Heidi Paakkonen
Aug 22, 2023
Ryan Wolf, host of The Guilt Podcast: True Crime, says he has found new information that will change what people think about the 1989 disappearance of Swedish tourists Heidi Paakkonen and Urban Höglin near Thames, and he hopes to help finally find Heidi.
Eastern Times
What we’re listening to: Guilt, Gone Fishing, Rachel Hollis
Mar 25, 2025
In this gripping Brevity Studios podcast, lawyer and investigator Ryan Wolf delves into the infamous disappearance of Swedish tourists Urban Hoglin and Heidi Paakkonen during a backpacking trip in New Zealand. The couple vanished in the bush on the rugged Coromandel Peninsula in 1989. Hoglin’s body was found in 1991 but Paakkonen’s whereabouts remain unknown.
Now to Love
Podcasts and parenting are former actor Ryan’s true calling
Jan 10, 2025
Ryan Wolf has had multiple acting roles, including on Shortland Street and Spartacus, but it’s his podcast Guilt that has everyone talking.
GUILT
A True Crime Podcast from Brevity Studios
GUILT is one of New Zealand’s leading true crime podcasts, created and hosted by investigative journalist Ryan Wolf. From the unsolved murder of Jordan Voudouris to the suspicious death of Dave Davan, GUILT explores unsolved cold cases, offering a voice to those who’ve gone unheard. Using first-hand interviews, legal analysis, and raw on-the-ground reporting to uncover new evidence, often challenging official narratives, each season of GUILT shines light on unanswered questions, stories that never sat right and families still looking for answers.
Produced by Brevity Studios, GUILT has become one of Australasia’s most talked-about podcasts - dark, compelling, and impossible to ignore.
INVESTIGATIONS
Last Season On GUILT
November 18th, 2021, a woman sits next to a bed in New Zealand’s Whangarei Hospital. In her hands she has a pen and paper, and with tears in her eyes records the dying wishes of 67 year old farmer, Dave Davan, who is suffering respiratory and kidney failure. Dave is dying, and he knows it, but before he does he’s doing something that no person should ever have to do, solve his own murder. There’s one thing that Dave has been repeating for the last 48 hours.
“They’ve got me, I’ve been poisoned”
Ryan Wolf
Executive Producter & Host
OUR HOST
Ryan Wolf completed his Law Degree and passed 'the bar' in 2014 and using this background he investigates some of New Zealand's most enduring unsolved criminal cases.
Guilt took home the Bronze Medal in the 2022 NZ Podcast Awards - Best True Crime, and was featured on Apple's "Shows We Loved In 2022."
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