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Vanished West is a true-crime podcast shining a light on Western Australia’s missing. Told with care and respect, each episode explores not only the mystery of disappearance but also the cracks in our systems - from mental health to policing - that allow people to slip away. This is not sensational true crime, but memory, accountability, and the search for answers.
Unknown Host hosts Vanished West, a true crime show with 33 episodes published.
On 22 October 1959, 31-year-old Winifred Peace disappeared from her home in Bentley, Western Australia.She left behind two young children, an unhappy marriage, mounting financial pressures and a trail of unanswered quest
In December 1997, 24-year-old William Maddison French travelled north through Western Australia hoping for a fresh start.After a final call from Carnarvon, he vanished.What followed would become one of Western Australia'
In 1994, Richard Milgin and Julie Buck left Looma together, hoping to build a future on their own terms. Months later, Julie's remains were found. Richard was never seen again. For more than three decades, rumours, alleg
In August 1987, 28-year-old Sally Greenham failed to arrive at a work meeting in Geraldton, Western Australia.At first, there appeared to be a simple explanation. But as days turned into weeks, and weeks into years, Sall
On December 15, 2020, Ian Tolli went kayaking off Point Peron in Western Australia.He never returned.His kayak was found drifting offshore. His paddle was recovered the following day. Ian has not been seen since.Follow V
In January 2017, Hendrick Oosterbaan abandoned a hire car in the remote Western Australian town of Menzies and disappeared into the Goldfields.A respected communications consultant, father and trusted family friend, Hend
Parbhat came to Australia to study, work and build a better future.By August 2024, he was alone in Albany — living in his car, far from home, and carrying pressures few people around him fully understood.Last seen at The
Sharon Fulton disappeared from Perth in March 1986 after dropping off her young son.She was a mother of four and before she vanished, she told people she feared for her life.What followed was decades of unanswered questi
In April 2019, a distress beacon activated off Cape Peron, south of Perth.A kayak was found drifting.A paddle washed ashore.But Stephen Angel was never seen again.What initially appeared to be an accident at sea would go
The disappearance of Frederick Winslow remains one of Western Australia’s enduring unsolved mysteries.In December 1974, Winslow vanished after his car was found crashed along Duncan Road near Golden Gate Cutting in the r
In 1999, 22-year-old Petronella Albert disappeared after a night out in Broome, Western Australia. She was known in the community and rarely out of contact for long. Then, sometime between late April and early May… she w
In December 2020, 73-year-old prospector Barry Podmore travelled into remote bushland near Karroun Hill Nature Reserve in Western Australia’s Goldfields.He never returned.In this episode of Vanished West, we explore Barr
A 12-year-old girl.A 10-minute walk home.No witnesses. No answers. In this episode of Vanished West, we examine the disappearance of Lisa Mott — and how someone can vanish in minutes… without anyone realising what they’r
In this special milestone episode of Vanished West, we step away from a single case to examine something that sits beneath many true crime stories — the gap between what we feel happened, and what the law can actually pr
In January 2022, 54-year-old Fremantle electrician Guido Michel drove into State Forest near Christmas Tree Well in Western Australia — and never returned.What began as a personal retreat into the WA bush soon became a m
In May 1986, 33-year-old Cheryl Renwick vanished from Como, Western Australia. Days later, her car was found parked at Perth Airport — but there was no record of her boarding a flight.Nearly four decades on, Cheryl remai
A diamond deal. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. A man who vanished without a trace.In April 2003, Wayne Dennis George Drewett disappeared in Perth, Western Australia. What remains is a coronial finding — and a silence
In June 2017, Jorn Jesper Jensen vanished from his Ocean Reef home. He left behind blood on the floor.A broken internal door.And days later, his car was found more than an hour away in Lancelin — parked neatly, keys stil
Beneath Fairfield Street is a resolved missing person case. For years, Pauline was missing without alarm — her absence explained away, her silence mistaken for choice. This episode examines how she vanished quietly from
In August 1974, twelve-year-old James Patrick Taylor disappeared from the Kimberley town of Derby after being sent on a simple errand. He never came home. This episode examines how a known predator was able to operate fr
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