Heidi Paakkonen?

Swedish Tourists Lost in the New Zealand Bush

In April 1989, Swedish tourists Urban Hoglin and Heidi Paakkonen entered the New Zealand bush on the Coromandel Peninsula as part of a backpacking trip. The couple, engaged to be married, were never seen again. In 1990, David Tamihere was convicted of murdering the Swedes, heavily based on testimony of prison inmates that has now been largely dismissed as false, and was sentenced to life in prison. While Hoglin's body would be found in 1991, Heidi's fate has remained unclear to this day.

​In Season 3 of Brevity Studios' podcast Guilt, host Ryan Wolf travels to Thames and the surrounding area, where answers to the years-old mystery of Heidi's disappearance may just lie with those who have called the Coromandel Peninsula home for decades.