{"podcast":{"title":"The Veil","slug":"the-veil-7494973","podcast_index_feed_id":7494973,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/68d0b2ea88c516d26e3c7b48","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/theveil","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/68d0b2ea88c516d26e3c7b48/1776992132724-a0679c89-2759-4d9d-983b-0621ea274548.jpeg","author":"Ryan Wolf","episode_count":44,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T00:18:01.803081+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-veil-7494973"},"episode":{"title":"E42 | The Red Fox Tavern","slug":"e42-the-red-fox-tavern","published_at":"2026-07-26T12:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-veil-7494973/e42-the-red-fox-tavern","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-veil-7494973","url":"https://shows.acast.com/theveil/episodes/e42-the-red-fox-tavern","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68d0b2ea88c516d26e3c7b48/e/6a6295917d20badb283fdbe5/media.mp3","summary":"On Labour Weekend 1987, two disguised men walked into the Red Fox Tavern at Maramarua, shot the publican Chris Bush dead in front of his staff, and disappeared into the night with the contents of his safe. For more than thirty years, the case stayed cold. Then, in 2021, two men were convicted of the murder — one of them so notorious that his name was suppressed for years. In July 2026, the Supreme Court took those convictions apart, entered acquittals, and left a killing that is, once again, officially unsolved. This week on The Veil, we trace the case backwards from that courtroom: the night itself, the circumstantial evidence that was never quite enough, and the dead man whose alleged confession pointed somewhere else entirely. It's a story about the uneasy gap between what the law can prove and what we think we know. Some veils lift; this one fell closed again. Sources Supreme Court of New Zealand — Wilson v R [2026] NZSC 88 (judgment): https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases/2026/2026-NZSC-88.pdf RNZ — \"Red Fox Tavern murder: How the case and trial unfolded\": https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/442059/red-fox-tavern-murder-how-the-case-and-trial-unfolded RNZ — \"Pair's convictions over Red Fox Tavern killing quashed by Supreme Court\": https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-and-justice/683311/pair-s-convictions-over-red-fox-tavern-killing-quashed-by-supreme-court RNZ / The Detail — \"The life and crimes of James Henry Wilson\": https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-and-justice/706724/the-life-and-crimes-of-james-henry-wilson 1News — \"Red Fox Tavern killing convictions quashed by Supreme Court\": https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/07/07/red-fox-tavern-killing-convictions-quashed-by-supreme-court/ NZ Herald — \"Red Fox Tavern murder convictions overturned by Supreme Court, James Henry…","meta_description":"On Labour Weekend 1987, two disguised men walked into the Red Fox Tavern at Maramarua, shot the publican Chris Bush dead in front of his staff, and disapp…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2632,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-veil-7494973/episodes/e42-the-red-fox-tavern/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-veil-7494973/e42-the-red-fox-tavern.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}