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Chapter 1: What happened to Heidi Paakkonen and Sven Urban Hoglin in 1989?
A reminder that most of what you're hearing through this in-game series was recorded well over two years ago. Throughout this series, I'm using a lot of voice distortion, which can be difficult to hear through some audio systems. Headphones are recommended. On the last episode of Guilt...
because he was saying about how I was a blonde girl and he said I reminded him of her. And he said a lot of the time, like, I shouldn't be down there.
He pretty much said yes, that blonde was known to be here, dragged across there by her hair, it was quite detailed, you know, and that there is a grave down there with two people in it.
I said to him, I put him to the question, I said, mate, did you really deal to those Swedes, brother?
And when he got out of the car, just tell me one thing, where is she? He knew exactly who I was talking about.
I know shit that nobody wants to come out and have me open. And of all of us, I know it all.
From Brevity Studios, I'm Ryan Wolf, and this is Guilt.
That's got to be her.
I'm just... I just feel like that's her. Okay, it is a wet old day. And... I'm driving to what could quite possibly be the most important meeting, you know, of all my podcasts of my life. It's December 13th, 2023, and over the last two months, my progress investigating this case has accelerated beyond anything I could have imagined.
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Chapter 2: How did David Wayne Tamihere become involved in the case?
And I tracked down this person who had told this story, and they confirmed that, yeah, that story is true, but that it was actually told to them by their brother. And that he was the man that I needed to speak to. He was the one that saw this. So I tracked this guy down, which was very difficult because he's not online or on a phone or anything like that. And anyway, I met him in person.
So I meet this guy, but he denies it. He admits that the white Subaru was there at this place. but he denies that he said he saw David Turner dragging Heidi. He said that, no, that's not true. But I just wasn't sure if I trusted him. I don't know, I just, something about it, I wasn't sure. And when I spoke to his sister and so on, she felt that, no, no, this guy's lying.
She felt very off about it. But anyway, this location of where this was is tricky. It's not super easy. It's not easy, this particular place. Anyway, so I get this call yesterday from someone who said, hey, look, I've got this person that's talked to me and they need to speak to you. They know where Heidi's buried. And it's like, shit, you know. So I called her up and said, what's the go?
And she said, yeah, so this person knows about Heidi. this spot where the white car came in uh and apparently you know Heidi was taken out and and buried in the spot and um and said that you know the person that had said this was um
they want to be anonymous they didn't even want to speak over the phone or by text or anything want to meet face to face only and and that's where i'm going right now but it just so happened that the thing that this person's telling me it's the same exact spot that that other person's telling me that that other person had said and there's a bit that i probably haven't added yet there is a human skeleton in this spot
And the person yesterday, my brows have said, look, man, this guy said that sometime in the last sort of 20 years, the skeleton kind of got unearthed. And it was put in a bag and reburied again a short distance away from where it was found. And it's not uncommon along the coastline for skeletons to appear. You know, old Māori skeletons from, you know, a couple hundred years ago.
They said, nah, this one was different. It had all its teeth and seemed much newer. And that this is Heidi.
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Chapter 3: What new evidence has emerged in the investigation?
That that's Heidi that they dug up and they reburied. And this person just said, look, I just want the right thing to happen finally after all this time. Like, she needs to go home. So right now I'm on my way to meet this person.
I know I'm not giving names and it's a bit sketchy, but a lot of this is still unfolding and I don't know what I'm going to be able to say and not say, so I have to be a bit vague about it. But based on other things I know to do with this spot and everything... Right now, I'm feeling like 95% that I know exactly where Heidi is within about a five-meter radius. Yeah, so far out.
This is going to be an interview I'm going to. I'm not going to be able to record. You're never going to know who this person is. But yeah, I'll chat to you after this meeting. It's wild, wild stuff. But, you know, just feeling like, oh, my God, like you might be able to find her and send her home. You know, and this could happen quite quickly now. God, that just fills me with the best feeling.
Yeah, I just hope it's not another letdown. But I really feel this one's, I really feel like this one's the one. Just to be perfectly clear, at this point, I've been contacted by someone who says that a person I'm going to meet right now knows where Heidi is buried.
And this person, completely independent of any of the work I've been doing, in a short phone call, has identified a location at Matilda Bay that is the exact same spot my previous witness said Sam had described. I'm meeting this person at a private location, and when I arrive, it's a phone's completely switched off situation.
As much as my hopes are as high as they can be, I've been in this situation many times, only to have them dashed. But this time, things are different. After we speak for only a short period of time, I realize, this is legit. This is the real deal.
The basic story this person has just told me is that the Swede's white vehicle was seen out at Matoda Bay and that Heidi's body was buried in the sand dunes in a tapu or sacred area. However, sometime later in the early 2000s, the bones became exposed and were discovered by a local. However, instead of reporting this to police, they were simply reburied nearby.
And there they have lain for the last 37 years. The person telling me says they only just recently became aware of this.
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Chapter 4: What lead did Ryan Wolf uncover about Heidi's disappearance?
Otherwise, they would have come forward a long time ago. But as soon as they became aware, they knew what they had to do. Because it's time for her to go home. And as if it can't get any better, They can take me to meet the person who actually found the bones and reburied them all those years ago. And we can go right now. And I'm told, follow me.
Okay, so I've just come out of this meeting with this person and it's all true. It all seems to be true. The skeleton, everything. I mean... They're telling me that, like, sort of unequivocally, like, that it's Heidi and that it's time for her to go home. Saying that they only just came into this information recently. It's not like they've known this forever.
Anyway, the story is, yeah, that these bones were found sometime after. They were reburied. in a nearby spot and in theory they're still there to this day and to make it even crazier not only that I said well you know who buried them like can we is this person dead or what's the go and
Assuming that that was going to kind of go nowhere... And they said... Hey... Nah... Like... I know who it is... And... And we can go and see him right now... The guy that literally found the bones... And reburied them... This person... That I'm being told is Heidi... On the Matilda Bay block... You know... Yeah... So... Anyway... I'm about to follow... I'm about to follow... This person... And...
I'm going to go meet this guy that found these bones and buried them and find out what the actual truth to this thing is. Hold on tight. This is crazy stuff. I follow along as we wind our way out of Whangamata and into the countryside until eventually we pull into a long gravel driveway almost completely covered in by overgrown trees.
It feels dark and wet and it certainly seems to be setting the scene. A couple chickens scatter out of the way as we park in front of a small country cottage. I can see a thin line of smoke whispering its way out of a brick chimney in the way you expect almost all farm cottages to do in New Zealand.
We're greeted at the door by an older man who invites us to grab a seat on the couch and offers us a coffee. He lives alone out here since his wife passed away some years ago, he says. Now he just has his cat and his chooks for company. As we sit down, he begins to talk before I've even had a chance to get my mic ready.
He knows why we're here, and he's obviously been thinking about what happened all those years back, and it's just pouring out of him.
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Chapter 5: What did the witness reveal about the skeleton found at Matoda Bay?
He tells us how he used to frequent Matoda Bay for many years back in the 80s, 90s, and onwards. and that he had been down to the beach there a thousand times by the same route. And then, one day, something was different. When he walked through the normal path, right there on the side, as clear as it could ever be, was a human skeleton.
So go back to, sorry, when you said you walked down that track and you found the skeleton there.
It wasn't down on the ground. The skeleton was sort of on the bank, just laying on the bank there, just up on the bank there. And I think it's probably, you know, with the wind and the rain and all that, probably had more sand on it, you know, more of it. But it got blown off at various things, you know, and... But I never thought it would have been the last.
You know, but we discussed it with old Kathy at the time, and she said it was this. She said, you know, there used to be the Maori wars down there years ago, and she thought it was a young warrior, you know, with three feathers up there on the forehead. That's what she said, and... I never thought any more about it after that.
But, of course, when I heard about that Lass went missing and that, it did come back to me, and I thought, nah, it can't be. It can't be. But then, I guess it could have been. I don't know. It could have been. But to me, you know, what I noticed was the skeleton was too white. You know, the head and the teeth were just...
I picked up, you know, the head, and the teeth were just beautiful teeth, you know, real nice set of teeth, you know, not old and gnarly, but beautiful teeth that I noticed, you know, and so did the girls too, I think at the time. That's what I noticed about it. The teeth were perfect. You know? And that's what I said to the lady. I said, gee, the teeth are not old.
She said, no, no, it's only a young person. Beautiful teeth. So, yeah. And you said the skeleton was quite white, was it as well?
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Chapter 6: Why was the decision made to rebury the discovered skeleton?
Yeah, white. It was really white. It wasn't grey or anything. Just a white colour, you know? Yeah. It's, uh, you know, there's old graves up there, you know, from the old days. And then, of course, they've got the Utapau up on the top. And they said, I remember them saying, oh, they'd bury one or two in the sand because they'd be too drunk to carry them up the top in the old days.
But, you know, so I guess that could be right too, I suppose.
So when you saw the skeleton there, you said it was more or less intact, but a few bits missing.
Yes, it's more or less intact. But there was maybe one or two things missing, you know, like different joints missing. But when I put it into the fish case, I had a fish case and it had a split in the side of it, a bluey colored one. And I was wondering, what could I put the skeleton in, you know, just to bury it? And I said to the girls, I've got a fish case up at the house.
I'll go and get that and we'll put it in there. So I did that. and they watched me do it and we dug a hole down and I put them in but then a couple of days later I was going through again and I saw another couple of bones that I missed so I didn't dig up the whole thing again I just dug down roughly where I thought it was and I just dropped them in you know just dropped them in in the sand
And it would have went down a couple feet anyway, hoping that it would get into there.
Have you ever found, so you said you've sort of seen other bones, and have you ever found an intact skeleton like that before in the beach?
No, no, no, not a whole skeleton or anything. No, no, not a whole skeleton.
Yeah, okay. Okay. And you know the exact spot where you buried the fish bin? Do you know the exact spot you put the fish bin with the skeleton with the bones in it? Yeah.
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Chapter 7: What challenges does Ryan face in bringing new evidence to the police?
Unless Dick shifted it. I did tell him that I put it there. And unless he shifted it in further. How deep did you put it down? Oh, it's not probably, you know, about the height of that, in the sand, you know. Do you know what year this was? Oh, we're going, you'd be looking at 2001, yeah, something like that.
You would have thought, and say that the skull, that there was no hair or anything like that you saw, it was just a... Yeah, nah, not a bit of hair or anything.
If it, you know, it made me think it wasn't, that it wasn't, you know, it ain't that lady. But, you know, unless sand can be laying there and, you know, what for that long, you know, not long, but... Yeah. You'd think there'd be some hair there or something there, I suppose. But then you don't know what the sea and sand can do, I suppose. Could move things around.
I don't know about that, but you think... But, you know... Yeah. But I'd seen, you know, years ago on the beach down there. You could imagine if the...
If the hair had become, you know, pretty much detached from the skull and it was sitting there, as soon as it was exposed and there was any wind, it would just be potentially just gone, you know. It would only take a day or two of exposure to wind and then it would just be out of there.
Yeah.
You know, like you saw it when you did, but who knows, it might have been sitting there for a week out in the open.
Yeah, yeah, well, that's right. Well, that's right. It could have been there, you know. It could have been there for, you know, a week, a week before we went there. I'd been through that cutting previously, but I couldn't remember when, you know, no sign of any skeletons that were there, you know.
And when you found other skeletons before and you mentioned about the teeth, Thank you. What were the Maori skeletons like? Did they tend to like lose their teeth or did they have their... Some of them just never had any teeth in at all.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of the ongoing investigation into Heidi's case?
No, no teeth. Yeah, interesting, eh? So when you, you know, just to cover back off with this, so when you did see the skeleton that day, did it sort of surprise you to see a skeleton there like that?
Yes, yeah, I did. I did get a bit of a surprise. I did get a bit of a surprise just to see it laying there like that, you know? Because I've been through that cutting several, you know, lots of times. Just to walk to the beach. Like even when my wife was alive and, you know, before them old ladies came out, I used to cut through that way and never ever saw any skeletons.
yeah, and the thing is, the other thing is too, to remember, is they, you know, they knew it was a taboo tree, and, you know, tapu, and I thought, well, if I put it there, no one's gonna go near it, and, and that's the thing, it could possibly be Could possibly be, could be that young lass. I hope it is. I hope I've got her in that box there for you, and if it's still there, be marvellous.
Yeah, now I think about it, knowing all this you're telling me, and now, it probably is her.
I just feel like that's got to be her.
I'm just, I just feel like that's her. I'm just so, I'm terrified that they've moved her, that someone's moved her. I just, oh man, I'm just so scared of that. You know, it's also possible that, you know, he said he didn't bury it deep. I mean, it could have become exposed at another time, you know, in the last 30 years.
And although he said it was about 2001 he put it in, but if it's become exposed again, someone may have reburied it again or moved it again. I just have this sick feeling in my stomach that that it's been moved and the fact that Dick Hauraki knew where it was yeah that scares me but all we can do at this point is just go forward with this and just honestly hope for the best hope for the best and
Just everything he's telling me just makes me think that that's Heidi. And hearing him say it as well now that, yeah, I mean, hey, that probably is her. You know, that's... Before we move on, I want to make it abundantly clear what was said. This witness told me that while walking through the sand dunes at Matoda Bay back in 2001, he discovered a skeleton.
Now, it is not uncommon for old Māori or indigenous skeletons to be found occasionally on New Zealand's coastlines. However, these skeletons generally date back hundreds of years, and over that period of time we can come to expect certain features. For example, a skeleton of that age is almost never found entirely intact, particularly when found in sand, which is constantly shifting.
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