Vanished West

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...

In 2017, Carole Livesey — traveller, mentor, and self-described “life explorer” — vanished after walking away from Rockingham Hospital in Western Australia. This episode traces her extraordinary life and the systemic failings that followed, revealing how eating disorders can silence even the brightest voices.