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The Veil
The Veil is a chilling true crime podcast that pulls listeners deep into the world’s darkest and most haunting cases. Hosted by Ryan Wolf, each episode is crafted like an immersive thriller - a story told not just through facts, but through atmosphere, tension, and detail that makes you feel as though you’re standing inside the crime scene itself.
These are not urban legends or ghost stories; every case is real, every victim and every clue drawn from documented fact.
From unsolved murders to…
Episodes
The VeilE76 | Feature Series | 5 4 3 2 1 - Part Three: The Confession
On 9 August 2011, in a room at the Hyatt in Perth, the boss of the gang Brett Cowan had worked for all winter asked him a simple question. After nearly eight…
The VeilE75 | Feature Series | 5 4 3 2 1 - Part Two: The Gang
5, 4, 3, 2, 1: The Incredible True Story of How Australian Police Trapped Daniel Morcombe’s Killer, Part Two of Three In April 2011, days after giving evidence…
The VeilE74 | Feature Series | 5 4 3 2 1 - Part One: The Overpass
5, 4, 3, 2, 1: The Incredible True Story of How Australian Police Trapped Daniel Morcombe’s Killer, Part One of Three On Sunday 7 December 2003, thirteen year…
The VeilE73 | Listener Cases | Who Killed Allison Newstead?
Subscribe to The Veil get ad free listening, bonus episodes and early release and listen on any platform via Supporting Cast here…
The VeilE72 | Listener Cases | The Disappearance of Iraena Asher
At 9pm on Sunday 10 October 2004, 25 year old Iraena Asher rang 111 from a house on Piha Road. She said she was afraid, that a man was pressuring her for sex…
The VeilE71 | Listener Cases | The Mysterious Death of Phoebe Handsjuk
On 2 December 2010, 24 year old Phoebe Handsjuk was found dying in the ground floor refuse room of her St Kilda Road apartment building, after coming down the…
The VeilE70 | Listener Cases | Who Killed Gordana Kotoveski?
On a Thursday night in November 1994, sixteen year old Gordana Kotevski left Charlestown Square to walk about 500 metres to her aunt's house on Powell Street…
The VeilE69 | Auckland Unsolved | Who Killed Katrina Jefferies?
At about 7.30pm on Sunday 10 July 2005, 22-year-old Katrina Jefferies left the Mt Roskill home she shared with her mother, her younger brother and her…
The VeilE68 | Auckland Unsolved | The Murder of Claire Hills
Before dawn on 28 April 1998, Claire "Lisa" Hills, a 30-year-old McDonald's shift manager, left her Herne Bay flat for a 3.30am start at Auckland Airport and…
The VeilE67 | Auckland Unsolved | The Murder of Tracey Anne Patient
On the night of 29 January 1976, thirteen-year-old Tracey Ann Patient left a friend's house in Henderson, West Auckland, and ran for home along Great North…
The VeilE66 | Auckland Unsolved | Who Killed Elsie Walker?
On the night of 1 October 1928, seventeen-year-old Elsie Walker vanished from her aunt and uncle's farm at Pāpāmoa, near Te Puke, in her apron and sand shoes…
The VeilE65 | Special | Sydney Unsolved - The Disappearance of Katrina Bohnenkamp
She was removed from her parents at two and placed under the parental responsibility of the Minister. Between two and fifteen she went through thirteen…
The VeilE64 | Special | Sydney Unsolved - The Acid Murder
For about three weeks in December 2013, a homeless woman caught the same bus out of Liverpool at eight each night, sat in the same seat, fell asleep, and was…
The VeilE63 | Special | Sydney Unsolved - The Disappearance of Juanita Nielsen
She published a local newspaper out of her own front room and used it to fight a developer who wanted to put three forty-five storey towers on her street. On a…
The VeilE62 | Special | Sydney Unsolved - The Disappearance of Trudie Adams
Just after midnight, an eighteen year old left a dance at the Newport Surf Life Saving Club and walked out to Barrenjoey Road to hitchhike home to Avalon. Her…
The VeilE61 | Murder at Sea? Part Two - Fatal Honeymoon (AUS)
Eleven days after her wedding, 26-year-old Tina Watson died on a honeymoon dive 48 nautical miles off Townsville. She was found on the sea bed in 30 metres of…
The VeilE60 | Murder at Sea? The Joyita Mystery (NZ/Pacific)
Before dawn on 3 October 1955, the MV Joyita left Apia on one engine, bound for Tokelau with 25 people aboard, among them a doctor on his way to operate…
The VeilE59 | In Cold Blood | Part One of the Book Series
On a Monday morning in November 1959, Truman Capote found a three hundred word wire story deep inside the New York Times. A wheat farmer, his wife and two of…
The VeilE58 | Who turned off the light? The disappearance of Eloise Worledge (AUS)
In January 1976, eight year old Eloise Worledge went to bed in her family's home on Scott Street, Beaumaris. Her father looked in on her at 11:40pm. At 7:30am…
The VeilE57.5 | BONUS - While the Baby Slept: Jess Rigby (companion to Episode 57)
A companion to Episode 57 — the death of Jason Rigby On the evening of 14 December 2024, Jess Rigby and her husband Chris had put their youngest to bed and…
The VeilE57 | Jason Rigby (Aus/Fiji)
On the morning of 14 December 2024, Jason Rigby put on a suit, went to a meeting, and told colleagues in the lobby of the Fijian resort he had helped build…
The VeilE52.5 | BONUS - Hunting Elly's Killer: Paul Warren, ten years on (companion to Episode 52)
Elly Rose Warren was twenty years old, three days from flying home, when she was found dead beside a toilet block at Tofo Beach in Mozambique on 9 November…
The VeilE55 | How did she Fall? The Case of Warriena Wright and Gable Tostee (NZ/AUS)
Warriena Tagpuno Wright was 26, a New Zealander, and had flown to Queensland for a friend's wedding. In the early hours of 8 August 2014 she fell 14 floors…
The VeilE54 | Finding Alysha (NZ/USA)
On 10 December 2001, her 24th birthday, Alysha Krsangi Hanin flew out of New Zealand for Florida, having just left her three-year-old son with his grandmother…
The VeilE52 | The Murder of Elly Warren (AUS)
Elly Warren was 20, from Mordialloc in Melbourne, six weeks into a marine conservation placement and days from flying home to study marine biology. On the…
The VeilE51 | The Whiskey Au Go Go Murders (AUS)
At 2.08am on 8 March 1973, two drums of petrol were lit in the foyer beneath the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub. Fifteen people died upstairs of carbon monoxide…
The VeilE49 | How does it Feel to Hug a Murderer? (NZ)
In July 2011 Bruce Mouat came home drunk from a work function at 1am. Workmates walked him to his own front door. Minutes later he went backwards down the…
The VeilE48 | The Luna Park Ghost Train Fire (AUS)
On a quiet winter Saturday in 1979, three separate passengers rode the Ghost Train at Sydney's Luna Park, saw a small fire burning inside an imitation…
The VeilE45 | The Gatton Murders (AUS)
There was no Australia yet. Six British colonies, six sets of laws, and a farming town of fewer than five hundred people west of Brisbane. On Boxing Day 1898…
The VeilE44 | The Murder of Pauline Sowry (AUS)
Pauline Sowry was 49 when she had lunch with her son at a Warrawong pub in December 1993. Her family never saw her again. A coroner found she had died but…
The VeilE43 | The Masterton Massacre
On a winter Friday night in 1992, Raymond Ratima let himself into his in-laws' house on Judds Road, Masterton, with a key he had taken when he was told to…
The VeilE42 | The Red Fox Tavern
On Labour Weekend 1987, two disguised men walked into the Red Fox Tavern at Maramarua, shot the publican Chris Bush dead in front of his staff, and disappeared…
The VeilE41 | The Bounty's Children
In 1790, the mutineers of HMS Bounty burned their ship in a hidden bay and vanished onto a mis-charted Pacific rock, sealing themselves off from the world. Two…
The VeilE40 | Mona Blades
On Queen's Birthday weekend, 1975, eighteen-year-old Mona Blades set out hitchhiking from Hamilton to Hastings, carrying a birthday gift of plastic cups for…
The VeilE39 | The Snapshot Killer
He was a successful Florida businessman with a waterfront house, fast cars, and a camera — and a name that surfaced, twenty years earlier, among the suspects…
The VeilE38 | The Sandhills of Wanda
On a windy Monday in January 1965, two fifteen-year-old best friends, Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock, took four young children to Cronulla. When the…
The VeilE37 | The Princes in the Tower
In the summer of 1483, two boys vanished behind the walls of the Tower of London. Edward the Fifth, twelve years old and uncrowned, and his nine-year-old…
The VeilE36 | Special | Mystery in the British Isles: Part Three - Bible John
Between 1968 and 1969, three women — Patricia Docker, Jemima MacDonald and Helen Puttock — were each murdered after a night at Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom…
The VeilE35 | Special | Mystery in the British Isles: Part Two - A Light Left On in West Cork
On the night of 23 December 1996, French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier was beaten to death outside her isolated holiday cottage in West Cork, Ireland…
The VeilE34 | Special | Mystery in the British Isles: Part One - The Unsolvable Case
On a January night in 1931, an insurance agent named William Wallace was lured across Liverpool by a phone call from a stranger — "Qualtrough" — to an address…
The VeilE33 | Horror on St Andrews Street
On the last night of February 2000, in the small Hunter Valley town of Aberdeen, a miner named John Price was stabbed to death in his own home — a death he had…
The VeilE32 | Special Series | Murder in the Pacific: Part Three - The Black Cat Track
In the final chapter of Murder in the Pacific, The Veil leaves the islands for the mountains of Papua New Guinea — and the Black Cat Track. In September 2013…
The VeilE31 | Special Series | Murder in the Pacific: Part Two - Norfolk Island's Darkest Day
On Easter Sunday 2002, Janelle Patton — a 29-year-old Sydney woman seeking a fresh start — was found brutally murdered on Norfolk Island, a tiny, idyllic…
The VeilE30 | Special Series | Murder in the Pacific : Part One - Mystery in Paradise
In June 2016, a Russian couple — Yuri Shipulin and Nataliya Gerasimova — drove away from their farm in the Fijian highlands and never came back. Two days later…
The VeilE29 | The Outback Killer - The Murder of Peter Falconio
On a winter night in 2001, an orange Kombi pulled over on the Stuart Highway. By morning, Peter Falconio was missing, his girlfriend Joanne Lees was hiding in…
The VeilE28 | A Dingo Took My Baby - The Lindy Chamberlain Story
On a Sunday night in August 1980, a baby disappeared from a tent at the base of Uluru. Her mother said a dingo took her. The country called it a lie. Lindy…
The VeilE27 | "They're All Dead" - The Bain Family Murders
On the morning of 20 June 1994, in a weatherboard house in Andersons Bay, Dunedin, five members of the Bain family were shot dead. One survived: 22-year-old…
The VeilE26 | The Murder of Kurt Cobain?
On the morning of 8 April 1994, an electrician named Gary Smith climbed the stairs to a greenhouse above a Seattle garage and discovered the body of Kurt…
The VeilE25 | "We Want to Go Back" - The Adelaide Oval Abduction
On a cold Saturday afternoon in August 1973, eleven-year-old Joanne Ratcliffe took four-year-old Kirste Gordon to the toilet at the Adelaide Oval, and the two…
The VeilE24 | Aramoana - Pathway to the Sea
The episode examines the Aramoana massacre, one of New Zealand’s deadliest mass shootings. Over 36 hours in November 1990, gunman David Gray killed 13 people…
The VeilE23 | Natalie Wood - Beware Dark Water
The death of Hollywood star Natalie Wood remains one of the industry’s most enduring mysteries. In November 1981, Wood vanished from a yacht off Catalina…
The VeilE22 | Special Series: Byron Bay - The Secret Coast - Part 3/3
Byron Bay is paradise. It is also, by NSW Police's count, one of the places where 67 women vanished or were killed between 1977 and 2009. In the final part of…
The VeilE21 | Special Series: Byron Bay - The Mystery - Part 2/3, Jackson Stacker
Jackson Stacker’s death in Byron Bay raised more questions than answers. What initially appeared routine quickly unravelled into a case marked by…
The VeilE20 | Special Series: Byron Bay - The Vanishings. Part 1/3, Theo Hayez
This is Part One of Three of our Special Series Byron Bay Vanishings In May 2019, 18-year-old Belgian backpacker Theo Hayez vanished after a night out in Byron…
The VeilE19 | The Man on the Hill - The Koiterangi Incident
In October 1941, a struggling West Coast farmer named Stanley Graham shot four police officers on his remote Koiterangi property, then vanished into the New…
The VeilE18 | The Body in the Wych Elm
In April 1943, four boys trespassing in Hagley Wood, Worcestershire, discovered a human skull inside a hollow wych elm. Police found an almost complete female…
The VeilE17 | The Body in the Copse - The Last Day of Shelley Morgan
On a clear June morning in 1984, Shelley Morgan left her Bristol home with a camera, a commission, and a day full of plans. She never came back. Her body was…
The VeilE16 | The Enigma of the Dark - The Claremont Killings
In 1996, three young women vanished from the same affluent Perth suburb within fourteen months. Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer, and Ciara Glennon were the last…
The VeilE15 | The Girl in the Basement - Jon Benet Ramsey
Six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in her family’s Boulder, Colorado home on Christmas Day, 1996. What followed was a baffling investigation marked by…
The VeilE14 | The Mystery of the Somerton Man
In December 1948, an unidentified man was found dead on Somerton Beach in Adelaide. He carried no identification. Clothing labels had been removed. Hidden in…