Case 2: Urban Hoglin and Heidi Paakkonen (EPILOGUE)

07/12/19 • 30 min

THAMES, COROMANDEL PENINSULA. Parakiwai Valley is situated about 70km away from Thames, it is a tranquil and quiet place, famed mostly for the Wharekirauponga Track. A 5km trek through NZ bush, punctuated by natural swimming holes. Reach the end of the trek and you are rewarded with a series of waterfalls. A destination, under normal circumstances, Urban would loved to have visited. It was here, Sven Urban Hoglin met his end and his body lay for two and a half years; undiscovered.

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Case 2: Urban Hoglin and Heidi Paakkonen (INVESTIGATION)

THAMES, COROMANDEL PENINSULA. Swedish couple Heidi Paakkonen and Urban Hoglin were backpacking around New Zealand late 1988 and early 1989. They were last seen in Thames in the Coromandel on the 7th of April 1989. Their 1976 Subaru Wagon was found abandoned on the 14th of April on Watling Street in Mt Eden, Auckland where it had been motionless for six weeks. Heidi and Urban were reported missing.

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Case 3: Schlaepfer Family Murders

PAERATA, AUCKLAND. May 19 1992, 7.40am. Police Constable Jeff Stuck answers a 111 emergency call from a hysterical woman. Stuck was unable to extract much information from the woman. She was screaming into the receiver, when suddenly the conversation ended. The phone fell to the ground. Constable Stuck, still listening heard in the background, raised voices of a woman and a man; yelling. Accompanied by a pair of loud gunshots.

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