GUILT

GUILT

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In this hit investigative podcast, Ryan Wolf investigates some of Australasia's most enduring unsolved criminal cases.


In the upcoming Season Seven, Ryan dives into a case in his own backyard. Where is Sara Niethe, one man holds the answers, can he finally solve this case.


Season Six

On August 28th 1999, 16 year old Jessica Gaudie was babysitting in Nambour, Sunshine Coast, Australia, when she vanished without a trace. In 2001 Aboriginal tracker Derek Sam was convicted of her murder, but denies his involvement and will not lead Police to Jessica's remains. 26 years later Ryan is on the ground in Australia looking for answers, and finds that he's not just looking for one missing woman, he's looking for three.


Season Five

In November of 2021, while the world was in lockdown. Dave Davan, a farmer in the rural far north community of Herekino found two bottles of wine in his mailbox. Assuming they were a gift he drank them, little did he know one bottle had been laced with the deadly poison Paraquat. In December Dave lost his short battle and sadly passed away. Three years on his murderer walks free. Ryan journeys to the remote and isolated far north to find the answer to the question: Who Killed Dave Davan?



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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 Throughout this podcast, to protect the safety of witnesses and the integrity of the case names, voices and even genders are changed without notice. 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…

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S3 | Part Two | Finding Heidi: Endgame, Episode Eleven - Finale - "No Thanks"

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 Throughout this podcast, to protect the safety of witnesses and the integrity of the case names, voices and even genders are changed without notice. 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…

08 Sep 2026
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S3 | Part Two | Finding Heidi: Endgame, Episode Ten - Leads on Leads

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 Throughout this podcast, to protect the safety of witnesses and the integrity of the case names, voices and even genders are changed without notice. 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…

01 Sep 2026
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Season 7 | Searching For Sara | TRAILER

In March 2003, Sara Niethe drove out to a property at Kaihere, on the Hauraki Plains, and was never seen again. She was 32 years old, a mother of three. Neither she nor her car has ever been found. Twenty three years later, the man at the centre of it has told four different versions of that day, has served his sentence, and has never said where she is. In season seven of Guilt, Ryan Wolf takes up the search for Sara Niethe. New episodes coming very soon. WE NEED YOUR HELP This season is an active search, and the people who can end it are almost certainly reading this. We want to hear from you if: You knew Sara Niethe, or knew Mark Pakenham, or knew anyone around him in 2003 You lived, worked, farmed or hunted around Kaihere, Ngatea, Patetonga or the wider Hauraki and Thames districts in 2003 You saw a light green 1987 Honda Civic hatchback, registration NH4050, in 2003 or at any time since You know of ground that was dug, filled, drained or built over around that time, or of a digger being used somewhere it…

31 Aug 2026
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S3 Update & Re-Introducing - THE VEIL | Episode 53 | Where is Sara Niethe?

S3 Finding Heidi Update Ryan is currently still working on the final two episodes of Finding Heidi Endgame. There are a couple important loose ends that need to be tied up to conclude the season. So this week we're re-introducing The Veil with the Subscriber only special episode - Where is Sara Neithe? On Sunday 30 March 2003, Sara Niethe drove out of Kerepehi in her mother's light green Honda Civic, stopped at a dairy in Ngatea where a security camera recorded her, and carried on to a house at Kaihere. She was never seen again. Her daughter turned ten the next day, with a table booked at a café. Ten years later Mark Pakenham pleaded guilty to her manslaughter — he had injected her with methamphetamine, a drug she had never used, and watched her die. He was paroled in 2016. Sara has never been found. Neither has the car. IF YOU KNOW SOMETHING The car is the most useful thing anyone can help with: a light green 1987 Honda Civic hatchback, registration NH4050, which vanished from the Kaihere / Ngatea / Thames…

18 Aug 2026
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S3 | Part Two | Finding Heidi: Endgame, Episode Nine - Dark Secrets

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 Throughout this podcast, to protect the safety of witnesses and the integrity of the case names, voices and even genders are changed without notice. 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…

11 Aug 2026