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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  1. 1 hr ago

    E54 | 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 plan was to collect her things in Miami and come home to raise him here. Four weeks later, in the small hours of Sunday 6 January 2002, she left the Shore Club hotel on Collins Avenue to get something to eat, and was never seen again. Her passport, purse, luggage, ID and credit cards were still in her room. Nobody reported her missing for three weeks. In the 24 years since: no verified sighting, no activity on her accounts. Police suspect foul play. Nobody has ever been charged. IF YOU KNOW SOMETHING Miami Beach Police confirm the case is active. Her family asks five questions: Did you know Alysha — as Alysha, Krsangi or Yami — in Miami, Los Angeles, or within the Hare Krishna community, before 2002?Were you at or near the Shore Club on Collins Avenue in early January 2002 — including working there, on the door, valet, desk, housekeeping or bar?Do you remember seeing or hearing from her, anywhere, after 6 January 2002?Do you have photographs, letters or recordings in which she appears?Did anyone you know ever speak about her disappearance, then or since?Crime Stoppers of Miami-Dade: 305-471-TIPS (anonymous) Miami Beach Police Department: 305-673-7900 — case 2002-3368 Florida Dept of Law Enforcement: 1-888-FL-MISSING (1-888-356-4774) Tips direct to her family, anonymously if you wish: findingalysha.com A NOTE ON SOURCING Nobody has ever been arrested, charged or named. Alysha Hanin is legally a missing person: no finding of death, no inquest, no judgment anywhere in this case. "Foul play is suspected" is Miami Beach Police's published position, not a finding. The episode refers to a former boyfriend who spoke briefly to the family's private investigator and then left the state. He has never been named, arrested or charged, and nothing in the record suggests any involvement. He is not named or described here, and no inference should be drawn. Almost everything known about the New Zealand end comes from two articles by one reporter — Katie Ham at Stuff, Jan 2024, republished by RNZ: one outlet, not two. The Miami reporting is Miami Herald copy syndicated across several sites, plus independent television reporting by Bridgette Matter at WPLG Local 10. The episode mentions that Alysha told her family she had been invited to party on Jeffrey Epstein's island. That comes from a single outlet, is an account of things she said, has never been tested, names or implicates no one, and is not connected to her disappearance. Cilla Senk's account of clothing returned to her that she did not recognise is her account, not a forensic finding; nothing indicates it was ever examined. Her recollection of a call with Interpol in Wellington is her own account, unanswered by any agency. Sources conflict on when she left the hotel and why she was in Miami; the episode sets out both and resolves neither. SOURCES Katie Ham, Stuff, 18 & 27 Jan 2024 (also on RNZ): stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350152238 Bridgette Matter, WPLG Local 10, 13 Aug 2026: local10.com Miami Herald, Jan 2024 and 15 Aug 2026 NamUs MP19635: namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP19635 The Charley Project: charleyproject.org/case/alysha-krsangi-hanin The family's site: findingalysha.com SUPPORT This episode deals with a disappearance, sexual exploitation and drug use. New Zealand: 1737 (call or text, any time) · Safe to Talk 0800 044 334 · Alcohol Drug Helpline 0800 787 797 · Women's Refuge 0800 REFUGE Australia: Lifeline 13 11 14 · Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636 · 1800RESPECT 1800 737 732 While some dramatic license is taken during the retelling of these stories, but you can be sure that these true crime stories are all based 100% on real events and facts. If you would like to suggest a case, you can message us via our website at www.brevityplus.com Subscribers get ad free listening to The Veil and all of our podcasts. Please consider subscribing to support our work. This podcast is researched, and written by the Brevity Studios team using AI tools, and is narrated in its entirety by - Ryan Wolf. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    E54 | Finding Alysha (NZ/USA)

  2. 5 days ago • Brevity+ Only

    E53 | Subscriber Special | Where is Sara Niethe? (NZ)

    On Sunday 30 March 2003, Sara Niethe drove out of Kerepehi in her mother's light green Honda Civic, stopped at a dairy in Ngatea where a security camera recorded her, and carried on to a house at Kaihere. She was never seen again. Her daughter turned ten the next day, with a table booked at a café. Ten years later Mark Pakenham pleaded guilty to her manslaughter — he had injected her with methamphetamine, a drug she had never used, and watched her die. He was paroled in 2016. Sara has never been found. Neither has the car. **IF YOU KNOW SOMETHING** The car is the most useful thing anyone can help with: a light green 1987 Honda Civic hatchback, registration NH4050, which vanished from the Kaihere / Ngatea / Thames area around 30–31 March 2003 and has never surfaced at a wrecker, been re-registered, or turned up in a drain or a paddock. Investigators believe that wherever the car is, Sara is with it. Anything else helps too — ground turned over on a farm that autumn, a paddock people were told to keep out of. You do not have to have done anything wrong to know about it. Bruce Currie, private investigator and former Waikato CIB senior detective, who has worked this case pro bono with Sara's family — 027 844 1349, [bruce@mrtracer.co.nz](mailto:bruce@mrtracer.co.nz). In confidence. NZ Police non-emergency: 105. Crime Stoppers: 0800 555 111 — anonymous. **A NOTE ON SOURCING** Mark Pakenham pleaded guilty to manslaughter in February 2013 and was sentenced in the High Court at Hamilton on 16 August 2013 to six years seven months. He was also convicted of two counts of injuring with intent to injure, relating to two women in Auckland between 1990 and 1992; those appear only because the sentencing judge relied on them in open court. He was paroled on 22 June 2016. This episode does not report on his life since. He later denied the account he pleaded guilty to; the Parole Board said this suggested "a person who is dishonest". No other person has ever been charged over Sara's death. The episode refers to one man, unnamed, recorded as having been in contact with Pakenham that day, who died in 2018. He was never charged, no court has made any finding about him, and no allegation is made against him. There was no trial, so no tested evidence and no judgment of fact — only an agreed summary and a sentencing. There is no forensic record: no remains, no post-mortem, no toxicology, no scene examination, no vehicle. Sara's age is reported variously as 30, 31 and 32; we used 31. The view that Pakenham had help disposing of Sara and the car is Bruce Currie's, and is not a finding of any court; police say there is no evidence of it. In October 2024, after an 18-month review, police found no reason to reopen the file. **SOURCES** New Zealand Parole Board, Mark Edward Pakenham, 9 June 2016 — [paroleboard.govt.nz](https://paroleboard.govt.nz) RNZ, "Police appeal for killer to reveal where body is" (2013); "Body still missing as killer released" (2016) — [rnz.co.nz](https://rnz.co.nz) Otago Daily Times (2011, 2013 court reporting) — [odt.co.nz](https://odt.co.nz) The Valley Profile, Hauraki — the local reporting that carried the 2022–23 searches — [valleyprofile.co.nz](https://valleyprofile.co.nz) Anna Leask, NZME (NZ Herald / Newstalk ZB), 2023–24 case reporting Mr Tracer (Bruce Currie) case files — [mrtracer.co.nz](https://mrtracer.co.nz) Waikato Times (2008); NZ Woman's Weekly family interview (2011) **SUPPORT** This episode deals with the killing of a woman, methamphetamine and long-term grief. NZ: 1737 (call or text) · Alcohol Drug Helpline 0800 787 797 · Family violence 0800 456 450 · Women's Refuge 0800 REFUGE · Victim Support 0800 842 846 AU: Lifeline 13 11 14 · Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636 · 1800RESPECT 1800 737 732

    E53 | Subscriber Special | Where is Sara Niethe? (NZ)

  3. 6 days ago

    E52 | 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 night of 8 November 2016 she was last seen outside a bar in Tofo, about half past eleven. At five the next morning a fisherman found her beside a public toilet block less than forty metres away, face down, her clothing disturbed, her airways packed with sand. Three autopsies in three countries reached three different conclusions. Her clothes were incinerated without being tested. Nearly ten years on, nobody has been charged, and the sand has never been compared. IF YOU KNOW SOMETHING No reward has ever been offered in this case. If you were in Tofo on the night of 8 November 2016, worked there, or were told something afterwards, the family are still asking. Elly's father maintains the case archive and a contact page: ellywarren.net In Australia, information can be passed anonymously to Crime Stoppers — 1800 333 000 — or through the AFP's online reporting form at afp.gov.au The questions still open: whether the golden beach sand in Elly's airways came from somewhere other than the dark grey ground she was found on; whether she died at that spot or was moved there; and who was near the market and the bar between 11.30pm and 5am. A NOTE ON SOURCING Nobody has ever been charged over Elly Warren's death, and no person is named as a suspect in this episode. No private individual is named at all. On 15 December 2023 the State Coroner of Victoria, Judge John Cain, found Elly died from aspiration of sand into her lungs. He could not establish how it got there, could not determine whether she died where she was found, and could not establish whether she was sexually assaulted, though he accepted it was possible. He made NO finding of homicide — he found it possible that a person or persons unknown caused or contributed to her death. Mozambique refused to provide its evidence brief to the court. The opinions of retired homicide detective Charlie Bezzina, and the beliefs of Elly's father, are given as opinion and belief. They are not findings. Material concerning the crime-scene photographs, the position of Elly's body and the state of her shirt comes from documents obtained by Paul Warren. It is untested and no court has ruled on it. Much of the detail of Elly's last evening rests on the reporting of a single outlet. The coronial findings are reported here from news coverage; the finding document itself is not published online. SOURCES marie claire Australia — "Mozambique Murder: What Really Happened To 20 Year Old Aussie, Elly Warren?" The most detailed reporting on this case anywhere. The New Daily (AAP), 15 December 2023 — the coronial findings. The Canberra Times (AAP) — inquest evidence of David Cafarella, AFP Commander Andrew Smith and honorary consul Blake Gray. Club of Mozambique — Mozambican police homicide classification, August 2023. Now to Love, Sarah Marinos — interview with Paul Warren. ellywarren.net — Paul Warren's case archive: the three autopsies, the 2019 radiological review, and the Elly Warren Protocol. "Hunting Elly's Killer: A father's relentless pursuit of justice" by Paul Warren, Simon & Schuster Australia, 2026. SUPPORT This episode deals with the violent death of a young woman and with a suspected sexual assault. Australia — 1800RESPECT: 1800 737 732. Lifeline: 13 11 14. Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636. New Zealand — Safe to Talk: 0800 044 334. Need to talk? Free call or text 1737. Narrated by Ryan Wolf www.brevityplus.com While some dramatic license is taken during the retelling of these stories, but you can be sure that these true crime stories are all based 100% on real events and facts. If you would like to suggest a case, you can message us via our website at www.brevityplus.com Subscribers get ad free listening to The Veil and all of our podcasts. Please consider subscribing to support our work. This podcast is researched, and written by the Brevity Studios team using AI tools, and is narrated in its entirety by - Ryan Wolf. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    E52 | The Murder of Elly Warren (AUS)

  4. 16 Aug

    E51 | 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 poisoning, in a first-floor room with one obstructed exit. Every one of them was dead before the fire brigade arrived. And months earlier, a career criminal named John Andrew Stuart had told a journalist — who printed it, and who personally warned the Police Commissioner and the Police Minister — that an empty club would be firebombed first, and then the Whiskey Au Go Go would be burned while it was full of people. On 25 February an empty club burned. Eleven days later, so did the Whiskey. A NOTE ON SOURCING James Finch and John Stuart were convicted in October 1973 of one murder — that of Jennifer Denise Davie, 17. The other fourteen charges were never proceeded with. Stuart died in Boggo Road Gaol in January 1979. Finch was released in 1988 and deported to England, where he confessed to a British newspaper and retracted within a day. He died of Covid in London, and the reopened inquest was told of his death on the opening day of its second tranche. Police fabricated the evidence used to arrest Stuart. That is not in dispute. Finch was convicted largely on a typewritten record of a police interview that he never signed, in Queensland, in the years before the Fitzgerald Inquiry examined that police force. A coronial inquest was reopened in 2017 and sat from June 2021 into 2022 — 30 days, more than 65 witnesses, over 2,000 exhibits — hearing credible evidence that Finch and Stuart did not act alone. As at the time of recording, the coroner's findings had not been delivered. At a 2017 Supreme Court sentencing for the murders of Barbara McCulkin and her daughters, Vincent O'Dempsey told the court he had nothing to do with the Whiskey firebombing, and Justice Peter Applegarth said there was available evidence to the contrary. That is reported here as what was said in open court. It is not a finding about the fire. Mr O'Dempsey has never been charged over the Whiskey Au Go Go and denies any involvement in it. No other person is named in this episode in connection with the fire. Two motives have been argued for fifty years — an extortion campaign, which is what the 1973 jury accepted, and an insurance fraud that went wrong. Neither has been established. SOURCES Geoff Plunkett, The Whiskey Au Go Go Massacre: Murder, Arson and the Crime of the Century (Big Sky Publishing, 2018) — written with access to the original police files Matt Condon, 'What really happened at the Whiskey Au Go Go?', Courier-Mail, 4 March 2023 'Secrets of Whiskey may never come out', Courier-Mail, 8 March 2023 Both archived at whiskeyfire.info Contemporaneous reporting: The Age, 9 and 13 March 1973; 7 January 1974; 2 January 1979; 6 June and 7 July 1984. The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 October 1966; 9 May 1974; 10 February 1984; 24 November 1988. Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience, Whiskey Au Go-Go nightclub bombing 1973 Monument Australia — Whiskey Au Go Go Fire Victims SUPPORT This episode deals with mass killing, self-harm and death in custody. Australia — Lifeline: 13 11 14. Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636. New Zealand — Need to talk? Free call or text 1737. www.brevityplus.com While some dramatic license is taken during the retelling of these stories, but you can be sure that these true crime stories are all based 100% on real events and facts. If you would like to suggest a case, you can message us via our website at www.brevityplus.com Subscribers get ad free listening to The Veil and all of our podcasts. Please consider subscribing to support our work. This podcast is researched, and written by the Brevity Studios team using AI tools, and is narrated in its entirety by - Ryan Wolf. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    E51 | The Whiskey Au Go Go Murders (AUS)

  5. 11 Aug • Brevity+ Only

    E50 | Subscriber Special | Heavenly Creatures - The Murder of Honora Parker (NZ)

    On 22 June 1954, Honora Mary Parker took her daughter and her daughter's best friend up to Victoria Park for afternoon tea. She was 45. She ran a boarding house on Gloucester Street. Half an hour later she was dead on a path below the kiosk, struck about forty-five times with half a brick in a stocking, by her sixteen-year-old daughter Pauline Parker and fifteen-year-old Juliet Hulme. Nobody has ever disputed who did it. Both girls admitted it within a day. Seventy years, a film, a shelf of books and two vanished identities later, the only question left is why — and the woman who died is still the person nobody can name. WHY THIS EPISOD Every telling of this case is about the girls. This one starts with Honora. She lived twenty years with a man the law would not let her marry, kept it secret in 1950s Christchurch, and was posthumously exposed in open court. She spent three months visiting Juliet Hulme in a sanatorium while Juliet's own parents were overseas. A NOTE ON SOURCING Built from the contemporaneous trial reporting of The Press and the Star-Sun, August 1954, digitised by Christchurch City Libraries, and from Neil Clarkson's 1989 Press retrospective, which reproduces the diary entries, both girls' statements to police and the psychiatric evidence from both sides. Pauline Parker's diaries no longer exist. Everything quoted from them survives only as extracts read aloud in court by opposing counsel for opposing purposes, then printed in newspapers. Treat them as a selection, not a document. Both girls were convicted and both matters are long closed. Juliet Hulme became the novelist Anne Perry; she died in April 2023. Pauline Parker has never given an interview in seventy years and has lived under another name since 1959. Her conviction and her change of name are public record; this episode does not report on her present life, and will not. Where accounts conflict, the episode says so. Anne Perry's explanation of the killing is her own, given forty years afterwards, and is presented as that. SOURCES Parker-Hulme Murder Case digitised collection — Christchurch City Libraries christchurchcitylibraries.com/heritage/digitised/parkerhulme 'Two teenagers face charge of killing woman' — Star-Sun, 23 August 1954 'Teenagers sentenced to detention for murder' — Star-Sun, 30 August 1954 'Girls guilty of murder' — The Press, 30 August 1954 'Woman's body found' — The Press, 23 June 1954 Clarkson, Neil. 'Separation threat trigger for a brick attack' — The Press, 17 June 1989 'Hulme describes plot to kill friend's mother' — The Press, 20 September 1994 Capital Punishment Act 1950, s 5 — legislation and NZ History SUPPORT This episode deals with the killing of a parent by a child, and with mental illness. New Zealand — Need to talk? Free call or text 1737. Victim Support: 0800 842 846. Australia — Lifeline: 13 11 14. Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636. Researched and produced with AI assistance

    E50 | Subscriber Special | Heavenly Creatures - The Murder of Honora Parker (NZ)

  6. 10 Aug

    E49 | 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 concrete steps outside it. He was 48, worked at the local dairy factory, and led the Taranaki Alpine and Cliff Rescue team. He died in Wellington Hospital eleven days later. Police considered homicide and ruled it out. A coroner found no foul play. At the tangi, his sister told police, his wife had hugged her and asked how it felt to hug a murderer — and the finding was accidental death regardless. It took five more years, and her own friends going to police about what she had been telling them, before Susan Mouat admitted she had pushed him. No new evidence was ever found. IN MEMORY Bruce Mouat led the Taranaki Alpine and Cliff Rescue team, volunteers who turn out for people in trouble on a mountain that has killed more than eighty people since the 1890s. If this episode stays with you, the volunteer search and rescue teams in your region are worth a thought. A NOTE ON SOURCING Susan Mouat pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was convicted. She was never charged with murder, and the Crown accepted she did not intend to kill her husband. All proceedings, including her sentence appeal, concluded in December 2017. Because she pleaded guilty, there was no trial. Her account that she pushed him in self-defence has never been tested by cross-examination, and no court has made findings of fact about what happened at that door. Between 2011 and 2016 she gave police three statements denying involvement before admitting it. Only the final version has ever been accepted, and it was accepted unchallenged. In that account she alleges Bruce was behaving abusively that night. That allegation has never been tested, he cannot answer it, and his family have never accepted it. Her confession is quoted from a transcript released to the Weekend Herald and reported by Kelly Dennett. The remark at the tangi is a witness's recollection recorded in a coronial finding, not a recording. Susan Mouat told the coroner she could not remember saying it, and that if she did, it was black humour. Much of the direct quotation in this episode comes from journalists reporting from court, some of it from a single outlet. Bruce and Susan Mouat's daughter is named in a public judgment; she is not named here, and will not be. No detailed post-mortem or scene evidence in this case has ever been made public. SOURCES Exclusive: What Susan Mouat told police about husband's death / Son of Bruce Mouat breaks his silence — NZ Herald and Herald on Sunday, Kelly Dennett, 2017 Couple had rocky past before fatal fall — RNZ, 13 October 2017 rnz.co.nz/news/national/341480 Wife's guilty plea six years after death — Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 2017, reporting by David Burroughs pressreader.com/new-zealand/taranaki-daily-news/20170905/281479276561336 Fall death ruled accidental — despite wife's quip — NZ Herald, February 2012 Home detention for Susan Mouat / Appeal denied — NZ Herald, 2017 Son of Taranaki manslaughter victim awarded thousands by court — Stuff, 2018 Estate: Kawana-Mouat v Mouat, High Court, 17 July 2018 — summarised at nzbloglex.blogspot.com Sentencing Act 2002, s 15A (home detention) — legislation.govt.nz SUPPORT This episode deals with family violence, alcohol dependence and a death in the home. New Zealand — Family violence: 0800 456 450. Women's Refuge: 0800 REFUGE. Alcohol Drug Helpline: 0800 787 797. Need to talk? Free call or text 1737. Australia — 1800RESPECT: 1800 737 732. Lifeline: 13 11 14. While some dramatic license is taken during the retelling of these stories, but you can be sure that these true crime stories are all based 100% on real events and facts. If you would like to suggest a case, you can message us via our website at www.brevityplus.com Subscribers get ad free listening to The Veil and all of our podcasts. Please consider subscribing to support our work. This podcast is researched, and written by the Brevity Studios team using AI tools, and is narrated in its entirety by - Ryan Wolf. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    E49 | How does it Feel to Hug a Murderer? (NZ)

  7. 9 Aug

    E48 | 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 fireplace, and thought it was part of the show. Minutes later the ride was an inferno. Seven people died: John Godson and his two young sons, and four Waverley College schoolboys. A fifth boy was lifted out of his carriage seconds before it went in. The coroner could not say how the fire started. Forty-seven years on, a police report sits suppressed, a million-dollar reward stands unclaimed, and the State Coroner has still not decided whether to ask the question again. A $1,000,000 reward remains on offer from the NSW Government and NSW Police for information about the Ghost Train fire. It is unusual, and worth understanding: it does not require the charge or conviction of any person. It is offered for information alone. Strike Force Sedgeman, run by the Homicide Squad's Unsolved Homicide Team, has reviewed the case. Investigators have asked for anything about that night, including: * the group of five men in distinctive motorcycle clothing seen near the Ghost Train shortly before the fire, who left the park quickly as it took hold and were never traced * the smell of kerosene reported around the ride by several people * anything from anyone who gave a statement to police in 1979 and was never called to the inquest * anything about the conduct of the original police investigation Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000\ [nsw.crimestoppers.com.au](https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au)\ Information is treated in strict confidence. Police ask that you do not report information via their social media pages. **A NOTE ON SOURCING** Nobody has ever been charged over this fire. Abe Saffron, Detective Inspector Douglas Knight, Jack Rooklyn and Neville Wran are all deceased and none was ever charged in connection with it. No court has made any finding against any of them in relation to the fire. The allegation that Saffron ordered the fire came from an anonymous source in the ABC's 2021 series and was assessed by independent reviewers as essentially hearsay. The 1981 accusations that Knight took bribes were never tested or proved. Separate and on the public record: in 1974 Justice Athol Moffitt condemned Knight for dishonesty in evidence to his royal commission. On Neville Wran we have followed the independent review commissioned by the ABC and conducted by Rodney Tiffen and Chris Masters, which found no evidence he interfered in the Luna Park lease decision and found the series' suggestion of a direct link between him and Saffron misleading. The same reviewers found the fire was, on the balance of probabilities, arson, and that the police investigation was inadequate and corrupted. The investigation remains open. **SOURCES** Coroner Kevin Anderson, Inquiry into the fire and deaths at Luna Park, findings 3 September 1979 — [coroners.nsw.gov.au](https://coroners.nsw.gov.au)\ ABC Editorial Review 25: Exposed: The Ghost Train Fire, Rodney Tiffen and Chris Masters, August 2021\ ABC News, "Accident or arson?" — Meldrum-Hanna, Begley, Karagic, Balendra, 2021\ NSW Police Force, $1m reward — [police.nsw.gov.au](https://police.nsw.gov.au)\ AAP, Miklos Bolza, 10 September 2024\ Dictionary of Sydney; Australasian Leisure Management; The Conversation **SUPPORT** This episode concerns the deaths of children and the grief of the families left behind. If it lands heavily: Australia — Lifeline 13 11 14, Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636. New Zealand — call or text 1737. While some dramatic license is taken during the retelling of these stories, but you can be sure that these true crime stories are all based 100% on real events and facts. If you would like to suggest a case, you can message us via our website at www.brevityplus.com Subscribers get ad free listening to The Veil and all of our podcasts. Please consider subscribing to support our work. This podcast is researched, and written by the Brevity Studios team using AI tools, and is narrated in its entirety by - Ryan Wolf. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    E48 | The Luna Park Ghost Train Fire (AUS)

  8. 5 Aug • Brevity+ Only

    E47 | Subscriber Special Series | The Murder of Meredith Kercher (The Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito Trials) (Part Two)

    Between December 2009 and March 2015, the Italian justice system said five different things about the same two people: guilty, not guilty, annulled, guilty, and finally not guilty forever. Part Two follows that sequence to its cause — a kitchen knife with no blood on it kept in a cardboard box, a bra clasp that lay on a floor for forty-six days before anyone collected it, and two laptops destroyed by the investigators who seized them. Italy's highest court eventually wrote that the answer had been reachable once, in the first days, and that the investigation spent it. A NOTE ON SOURCING Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito did not kill Meredith Kercher. The Court of Cassation annulled their convictions on 27 March 2015 without ordering a retrial — a definitive acquittal that cannot be appealed. They had each served close to four years. Nothing in this episode hedges that, and the "could not rule out they were elsewhere in the house" line from the judgment is deliberately not used, because it invites an inference the court did not make. Rudy Guede remains the only person ever definitively convicted of the murder. He served 13 of 16 years and was released in November 2021. Patrick Lumumba is entirely innocent and was never charged. The separate slander conviction against Knox, arising from the statement that named him, was re-imposed in Florence in June 2024 and upheld by the Court of Cassation in January 2025. It stands. This episode holds that alongside the European Court of Human Rights' 2019 finding that the interview which produced the statement was unlawful — and does not resolve the two into each other. The episode quotes the 2015 Cassation judgment extensively. Those quotations reach us through a single Associated Press dispatch of the filed reasons, syndicated widely — one source, not several. The judgment exists in English translation and is linked below. This episode does not reconstruct the murder. No court ever established what happened in that room. SOURCES Court of Cassation (Marasca–Bruno) motivation report, 27 March 2015 — English translation themurderofmeredithkercher.net European Court of Human Rights, Knox v. Italy, 24 January 2019 hudoc.echr.coe.int CBC / Associated Press, "Italy's top court slams prosecution in final report," September 2015 cbc.ca/news/world/amanda-knox-italy-court-1.3218754 Forensic Science International: Genetics — "Analysis and implications of the miscarriages of justice of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito" sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1872497316300333 famous-trials.com — court decisions index and an account of the 2009 trial CNN, 5 June 2024 and 23 January 2025 — the slander re-conviction and its confirmation NBC News / AP — Sollecito's rejected compensation claim BBC News — the death of John Kercher Full annotated source list: brevityplus.com SUPPORT This episode discusses murder and sexual violence. Australia: 1800RESPECT 1800 737 732 · Lifeline 13 11 14 New Zealand: Safe to Talk 0800 044 334 · free call or text 1737

    E47 | Subscriber Special Series | The Murder of Meredith Kercher (The Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito Trials) (Part Two)
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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    2025 - 2026
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  • Show Website
    The Veil
  • Provider
    Brevity Studios

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