S3 | Part Two | Finding Heidi: Endgame - Episode Three (Re-release)

S3 | Part Two | Finding Heidi: Endgame - Episode Three (Re-release)

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June 9, 2026 · 43 min · Season 3 · Episode 48

About this episode

This episode revisits the unresolved case of two Swedish tourists who disappeared in New Zealand in 1989 and the subsequent conviction of David Wayne Tamihere.

Please note Endgame Episodes 1 & 2 were not able to be re-released due to the Supreme Court Take Down Order. For all details on how to subscribe using Apple or Spotify and support the podcast plus get early release, ad free listening and bonus episodes please visit https://www.theguiltpodcast.com/how-to-subscribe In April of 1989 two Swedish tourists, Heidi Paakkonen and Sven Urban Hoglin disappeared without a trace only days before they were due to leave New Zealand. Despite no bodies being found, David Wayne Tamihere was convicted of their murders. In October of 1991 Urban’s body was discovered 70km away from where the New Zealand Police said it should be, when it was discovered up a forest road in Parakiwai, near Whangamata. Yet despite this contradictory new evidence and the eventual discovery that a key witness had committed perjury, David Tamihere was not successful in his appeals and served 21 years before being paroled in 2010. To this day Tamihere has always maintained his innocence, that he never met the Swedish couple, and he certainly never murdered them. It was almost one year ago, in December of 2023 that I released the final official episode of Season three of…

Topics covered

  • true crime
  • murder investigation
  • legal system
  • innocence
  • missing persons
  • New Zealand

Keywords

  • Heidi Paakkonen
  • Sven Urban Hoglin
  • David Wayne Tamihere
  • New Zealand Police
  • murder case
  • missing persons
  • true crime

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New Zealand Police

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