Case 2: Urban Hoglin and Heidi Paakkonen (INVESTIGATION)

07/07/19 • 32 min

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 2: Urban Hoglin and Heidi Paakkonen (PROLOGUE)

THAMES, COROMANDEL PENINSULA. In the early morning hours of Friday the 16th of September, 1988. Two Swedes, a young couple; Heidi Paakkonen and Urban Hoglin were waiting at the Stockholm Airport to begin their once in a lifetime, around the world trip. They were set to return in May of the next year, 1989.

Full of wide eyed optimism about their immediate future, they waved goodbye to their parents and siblings. They would travel to the United States, then move on to Australia before finally reaching New Zealand.

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Case 2: Urban Hoglin and Heidi Paakkonen (EPILOGUE)

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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