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Lost In The Woods Podcast

Missing in New Zealand: Urban Höglin and Heidi Paakkonen

Lost In The Woods Podcast

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True Crime

3.9582 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Sweedish backpackers Urban Höglin and Heidi Paakkonen were backpacking in New Zealand in April of 1989 when they would vanish. Concern for the couple would grow after their car is found abandoned  get in shape with Marie💪🏻 https://www.1stphorm.app/marieschedler https://1stphorm.com/?a_aid=marieschedler&a_bid=acc524e5&chan=Lostinthewoods our links: https://open.spotify.com/show/4yFbZbdtAtCeKAsDlnAkew?si=WecC4XCUQb2c0pjIXjSCpw https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-in-the-woods-podcast/id1504163212 https://www.instagram.com/lostinthewoodspodcast/ https://www.patreon.com/lostinthewoodspodcast https://my-store-11745950.creator-spring.com/ https://linktr.ee/Lostinthewoodspodcast buy us coffee☕️ https://venmo.com/code?user_id=2323643837186048330&created=1633816408.531276&printed=1 http://paypal.me/lostinthewoodspod

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0:00.0

One, two, three, four.

0:16.6

Hi, guys. I'm Marie.

0:18.0

And I'm Maddie.

0:19.6

And we are here today recording Lost in the Woods.

0:23.1

We have some background noise today.

0:25.2

Hopefully you guys can't hear it.

0:26.7

It's in our garage, but it's there.

0:29.5

Yep.

0:31.2

So today's case is on Sven Urban Hoggling, who went by Erban.

0:37.1

And Heidi Pakenen.

0:41.4

So, 23-year-old Erban and 21-year-old Heidi would go missing while tramping through New Zealand

0:49.9

in 1989.

0:52.7

Erban was a big fan of tramping or hiking, as we call it here, along with hunting,

0:59.6

and he was six feet tall and very athletic. Heidi had blonde hair and was slender and stood at about

1:06.3

five-nine. Both had very blue eyes and matching engagement bands with each other's names engraved on them.

1:14.2

The couple was from Sweden and they had purchased a 1976 Subaru wagon with pole bars on the front.

1:22.3

They were traveling with two large backpacks, a green and yellow tent, sleeping bags, and other gear.

1:30.0

They would make their way south passing tourist stops such as Punakakee, Fox Glacier, and

1:35.8

Queenstown, and they would hike on the Coramandall Peninsula of New Zealand.

1:42.6

They not only completed small hikes, but Heidi wrote home about one hike that took them

1:47.7

five days to complete and covered 85 kilometers, which is almost 53 miles.

1:55.0

Which isn't too bad.

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