Vanished West

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 on to raise far more complicated questions.🎧 Vanished West explores what happened that morning and why this case is not as straightforward as it first seems. If you have any...

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 remote Kimberley region of WA. Despite search efforts, no trace of him was ever found. This episode of Vanished West explores the timeline, investigation, and unanswered questions...

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 was gone. In this episode of Vanished West, we explore Petronella’s final movements and the questions that still remain. If you have any information, contact Crime Stoppers on 1800...

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 Barry’s final known movements and the mystery that unfolded in one of Western Australia’s most vast and unforgiving landscapes. If you have information about Barry Podmore’s disappea...

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’re seeing.

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 prove. Why do people often blame police when a case goes cold? What does “beyond reasonable doubt” really mean in the Australian justice system? Why can serious crimes sometimes resu...

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 missing person investigation that raised difficult questions about isolation, survival in remote environments, and the quiet struggles many people carry beneath the surface. Phone...

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 remains missing. Was she the victim of foul play? Could her disappearance be linked to the Birnie murders, domestic proximity, or other unsolved crimes in Perth’s history? And why was...

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 that has never been resolved.

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 still in the ignition. No body has ever been found. An inquest determined Jesper is deceased, but how he died remains officially unascertained. Within his own family, two very differ...

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 a Mount Hawthorn home, why it took so long for questions to surface, and how the truth was ultimately uncovered years later. This is a story about a missing person whose case was s...

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 freely, how police failures shaped the response to a missing child, and why it is very likely Jimmy was taken by someone who should have been stopped. Follow Vanished West to stay wi...

In January 1968, Kate Campbell Haythornthwaite began a familiar walk home in Boulder, Western Australia — and never arrived. Independent and routine-driven, Kate did not leave by choice. Decades later, a coroner would conclude she died that night, and that her body was concealed.

For years, this case was viewed through a single lens. A man disappears. Assumptions are made. But when you examine the timeline closely — the distance travelled, the missing vehicle, and evidence that surfaced years later — the story no longer fits as neatly as it once did. In this episode of Vanished West, we revisit the disappearance of Peter James Guidera and ask whether the original explanati...

In May 1992, fourteen-year-old Radina Marie Djukich disappeared from North Beach in Perth’s northern suburbs. At first, her absence didn’t feel alarming. It felt temporary. This episode explores Radina’s life before she went missing, the assumptions that shaped the early response, and how vulnerability can be quietly misread. It reflects on a cycle that continues today, as children and teenagers a...

Vanished West is a Western Australian true-crime podcast dedicated to unresolved missing persons cases. Follow the show on Spotify for in-depth investigations and new episodes.

In Part Two, the focus shifts away from what was left behind and toward what was happening quietly in the months before the disappearance. This episode examines the beliefs, communications, and influences that shaped the decisions leading up to July 2007 — including the ideology at the centre of the group, the role of control and persuasion, and why this case cannot be explained as a simple disapp...

Four people vanished from Nannup, Western Australia, without leaving a trace. This two-part investigation explores what happened before the silence — the beliefs, the movements, and the unanswered questions that still remain. Part One examines how this story began.

Her car was found. Sarah Anne McMahon was not. This episode examines what is known and what remains unanswered about her disappearance in Western Australia.

She planned to leave at first light. By morning, she was gone. In December 1975, 19-year-old Glenyce Rae McGowan vanished overnight from a crowded campsite at Nanutarra Roadhouse in Western Australia’s Pilbara. This is her story.

A young Bardi woman walks into the shadows of Broome Wharf with a man she barely knows. Moments later a scream cuts through the air and only one of them returns. Decades a secret confession will change everything.

A young mother disappears at one of WA’s most dangerous cliffs. No footprints. No witnesses. No trace. And an anonymous call that changes everything. This is Episode Five: The Silence at The Gap.

In May 2010, 37-year-old mother of three, Iveta Mitchell, stepped outside her Meares Avenue home after a late-night argument — and was never seen again. Her phone, keys, cigarettes and car were left. Her family reported her missing within days. For years, rumours swirled, theories spread, and silence settled over a case that never felt natural, never felt voluntary, and never felt like a woman sim...

A missing mother. A violent assault. A man accused — then acquitted. A white Jaguar seen in the dark. In Episode 3, we unravel the disappearance of Lisa Jane Brown and the secrets that have kept her case cold for 27 years. Someone knows the truth. Could it finally surface?

In June 1988, twenty-two-year-old Julie Cutler left a work function at Perth’s Parmelia Hilton. Two days later, her Fiat was found upside down in the surf at Cottesloe Beach. Julie was gone. Decades later, an inquest confirmed she had died but could not say how. Lost evidence, unanswered calls, and the slow erosion of urgency turned her disappearance into one of Western Australia’s most haunting m...