The Veil
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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 bizarre disappearances, infamous trials to cold cases that still whisper through history, The Veil strips back the layers of time and rumor to confront the unsettling truths hidden beneath.
With an eye for detail and a voice that guides you through the shadows, Ryan brings both journalistic rigor and cinematic storytelling to each 30-minute episode. What emerges is an experience that is at once gripping and unnerving, reminding us that the scariest stories are not fiction at all.
Pull back The Veil - but beware. Because sometimes, when we lift it, we don’t like what we find.
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- E79 | The Boy in the Chair: The Confessions of Teina Pora - Part Three - Never Met Him · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 81A professor of false confessions who said no, then yes. A diagnosis nobody had looked for in twenty years. Five judges in London. In the final part of The Boy in the Chair, Teina…
- E78 | The Boy in the Chair: The Confessions of Teina Pora - Part Two - The House on Pah Road · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 80In 2000, with a serial rapist already convicted of raping Susan Burdett, a second jury found Teina Pora guilty of her murder. Nine years later, a former detective who'd once…
- E77 | The Boy in the Chair: The Confessions of Teina Pora Part One - A Year to the Day · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 79On a Monday night in March 1992, Susan Burdett came home from bowling to her unit on Pah Road in Papatoetoe. About twenty minutes later, her neighbour heard the thuds. A year…
- E76 | Feature Series | 5 4 3 2 1 - Part Three: The Confession · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 78On 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 years of denials…
- E75 | Feature Series | 5 4 3 2 1 - Part Two: The Gang · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 775, 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 at the inquest…
- E74 | Feature Series | 5 4 3 2 1 - Part One: The Overpass · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 765, 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 old Daniel…
- E73 | Listener Cases | Who Killed Allison Newstead? · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 75Subscribe to The Veil get ad free listening, bonus episodes and early release and listen on any platform via Supporting Cast here: https://guilt.supportingcast.fm/ On Wednesday…
- E72 | Listener Cases | The Disappearance of Iraena Asher · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 74At 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, and that she had…
- E71 | Listener Cases | The Mysterious Death of Phoebe Handsjuk · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 73On 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 rubbish chute from…
- E70 | Listener Cases | Who Killed Gordana Kotoveski? · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 72On 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. A passing driver…
- E69 | Auckland Unsolved | Who Killed Katrina Jefferies? · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 71At 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 20-month-old son. On the…
- E68 | Auckland Unsolved | The Murder of Claire Hills · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 70Before 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 never arrived. About…
- E67 | Auckland Unsolved | The Murder of Tracey Anne Patient · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 69On 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 Road, late for her…
- E66 | Auckland Unsolved | Who Killed Elsie Walker? · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 68On 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 family car…
- E65 | Special | Sydney Unsolved - The Disappearance of Katrina Bohnenkamp · 41 min · Episode 67She was removed from her parents at two and placed under the parental responsibility of the Minister. Between two and fifteen she went through thirteen different carers and care…
- E64 | Special | Sydney Unsolved - The Acid Murder · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 66For 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 woken at her stop by…
- E63 | Special | Sydney Unsolved - The Disappearance of Juanita Nielsen · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 65She 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 Friday morning she…
- E62 | Special | Sydney Unsolved - The Disappearance of Trudie Adams · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 64Just 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 boyfriend watched…
- E61 | Murder at Sea? Part Two - Fatal Honeymoon (AUS) · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 63Eleven 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 water with her…
- E60 | Murder at Sea? The Joyita Mystery (NZ/Pacific) · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 62Before 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, Tokelau's District…
- E59 | In Cold Blood | Part One of the Book Series · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 61On 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 their children had…
- E58 | Who turned off the light? The disappearance of Eloise Worledge (AUS) · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 60In 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 her younger brother…
- E57.5 | BONUS - While the Baby Slept: Jess Rigby (companion to Episode 57) · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 59A 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 started a movie when…
- E57 | Jason Rigby (Aus/Fiji) · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 58On 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 that he would see them…
- E52.5 | BONUS - Hunting Elly's Killer: Paul Warren, ten years on (companion to Episode 52) · 1 h 8 min · Season 1 Episode 57Elly 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 2016. The Mozambican…
- E55 | How did she Fall? The Case of Warriena Wright and Gable Tostee (NZ/AUS) · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 55Warriena 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 from a balcony at the…
- E54 | Finding Alysha (NZ/USA) · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 54On 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 plan was to…
- E52 | The Murder of Elly Warren (AUS) · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 52Elly 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 night of 8 November…
- E51 | The Whiskey Au Go Go Murders (AUS) · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 51At 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 poisoning, in a…
- E49 | How does it Feel to Hug a Murderer? (NZ) · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 49In 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 concrete steps outside…
- E48 | The Luna Park Ghost Train Fire (AUS) · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 48On 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 fireplace, and thought it…
- E45 | The Gatton Murders (AUS) · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 45There 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, Michael Murphy and…
- E44 | The Murder of Pauline Sowry (AUS) · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 44Pauline 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 could not say how, when…
- E43 | The Masterton Massacre · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 43On 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 leave. He waited…
- E42 | The Red Fox Tavern · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 42On 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 into the night…
- E41 | The Bounty's Children · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 41In 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 centuries later…
- E40 | Mona Blades · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 40On 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 her baby nephew. She…
- E39 | The Snapshot Killer · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 39He 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 at Wanda Beach. In…
- E38 | The Sandhills of Wanda · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 38On 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 little ones tired…
- E37 | The Princes in the Tower · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 37In 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 brother Richard were…
- E36 | Special | Mystery in the British Isles: Part Three - Bible John · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 36Between 1968 and 1969, three women — Patricia Docker, Jemima MacDonald and Helen Puttock — were each murdered after a night at Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom. All three were…
- E35 | Special | Mystery in the British Isles: Part Two - A Light Left On in West Cork · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 35On 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 — chased down her…
- E34 | Special | Mystery in the British Isles: Part One - The Unsolvable Case · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 34On 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 that didn't exist…
- E33 | Horror on St Andrews Street · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 33On 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 predicted aloud to…
- E32 | Special Series | Murder in the Pacific: Part Three - The Black Cat Track · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 32In 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, a guided trekking…
- E31 | Special Series | Murder in the Pacific: Part Two - Norfolk Island's Darkest Day · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 31On 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 community of fewer than…
- E30 | Special Series | Murder in the Pacific : Part One - Mystery in Paradise · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 30In 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 their Landcruiser…
- E29 | The Outback Killer - The Murder of Peter Falconio · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 29On 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 scrub, and…
- E28 | A Dingo Took My Baby - The Lindy Chamberlain Story · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 28On 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 Chamberlain spent…
- E27 | "They're All Dead" - The Bain Family Murders · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 27On 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 David Bain, who had…
