Case 2: Urban Hoglin and Heidi Paakkonen (PROLOGUE)

06/29/19 • 19 min

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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CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY.

June 22, 1954
"The Day of The Happy Event. I am writing a little of this up in the morning before the death. I felt very excited and 'The night before Christmas-ish' last night. I did not have pleasant dreams though. I am about to rise"

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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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