Vanished West

In August 2015, Rigby Fielding spent a Saturday afternoon in East Perth. He called his mother and said he was heading home to Rockingham.He never arrived.Months later, some of Rigby’s belongings were found in bushland...

In February 2021, 57-year-old Kichae Kwon left his home in Kenwick for what appeared to be an ordinary walk.Witnesses saw him heading along Kenwick Road before turning into Belmont Street. After that, no verified...

In May 2010, 41-year-old Dean Pollard disappeared from Perth, Western Australia. More than sixteen years later, he has never been found.His final weeks left behind a complicated trail, but one moment remains remarkably...

Something a little different from Vanished West today.I'm stepping away from the usual case format to answer six questions about the podcast, the cases that stay with me, what happens behind the scenes, the strange...

Paul Murphy was 24 years old when he disappeared from Western Australia in 1986. Living in Perth at the time, Paul was quiet and independent, with an interest in prospecting and gold mining. Then contact with his family...

Joseph da Silva was 34 years old when he disappeared from Perth in April 2017. In the days before he vanished, he returned several times to City Beach, a place he knew well. When his family realised something was wrong...

Rebecca Anne Delalande was 23 years old when she disappeared from Perth in November 2001. For more than sixteen years, her family believed she had left Western Australia. Then Cold Case detectives investigating the...

In 2013, Alfred Keith Crozier walked away from his Perth home and was never seen again. More than a decade later, a coronial inquest uncovered the extraordinary events leading up to his disappearance. What really...

In January 2013, Michael Keith Graham travelled to Western Australia's remote Goldfields for a prospecting trip. Days later, he vanished. Searchers eventually discovered two handwritten messages in the dirt: "Walking...

A mother and her baby disappeared. Decades later, questions remain.In 1998, Veronica Lockyer and her baby daughter Adell vanished in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.This week on Vanished West, we retrace the known...

On a warm December night in 1977, 21-year-old Lorraine Kessey left friends after a night out in Perth and began the short journey home to Maddington.She never arrived.Nearly five decades later, Lorraine remains one of...

In February 2006 John left Perth and travelled east through regional Western Australia. He spoke with police, called his insurer and stayed in contact with the people who cared about him.Then the calls stopped.John's...

In April 1997, Josephine Jennings gave evidence against a man she had accused of rape.It was the last confirmed time she was ever seen.In this episode of Vanished West, we explore the life ofthe proud Wangkai and Wongi...

In June 2003, 25-year-old Simon Gurrier-Jones left Perth alone.By the following morning, he was more than 1,000 kilometres from home, travelling east along the Eyre Highway.What happened on that journey — and what...

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...