Where Is Rigby Fielding? | Stephenie Fielding
From Real Crime with Adam Shand by Podshape
April 14, 2026 · 31 min · Season 1 · Episode 69
About this episode
Adam Shand revisits the unresolved case of Rigby Fielding's disappearance with his sister Stephenie, highlighting police failures and unanswered questions.
In 2016, Adam Shand covered the disappearance of Rigby Fielding in a single radio segment — and then moved on. Ten years later, Rigby's family is still waiting. Rigby Fielding was 53 years old when he vanished on August 15, 2015, after calling his mother to say he was on his way home from Perth to Rockingham. He never arrived. Now his sister Stephenie joins Adam to walk through a decade of unanswered questions, police indifference, and a trail of leads that were never properly followed. His bag was recovered in bushland near the Spectacles Wetlands — a known meeting place for gay men. A person of interest was quickly cleared without explanation. CCTV footage from Perth train station, the last confirmed sighting, went missing. Dating app chat logs were never investigated. And all the while, the family knocked on doors, called hospitals, and were told he was 53 — he was allowed to go missing. Stephenie believes foul play was involved. Adam agrees — and draws a direct line to the Bondi hate crimes of the eighties and nineties, where a pattern of dismissal allowed killers to go free. With only six officers in Western Australia's entire missing persons unit…
People in this episode
Host: Adam Shand
Guest: Stephenie Fielding
Topics covered
- disappearance
- missing persons
- police indifference
- family search
- true crime
- foul play
Keywords
- Rigby Fielding
- disappearance
- missing persons
- Stephenie Fielding
- police indifference
- true crime
- CCTV footage
- Bondi hate crimes
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Perth, Rockingham, Spectacles Wetlands
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