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It was New Zealand's darkest day, and one we will never forget. Our newsroom got the first call from a witness just minutes after the shooting started. For the first time we are sharing audio from that interview - and others - as we take you ba
In 1954 Christchurch woman Honorah Parker was murdered while on a walk in the Port Hills. The culprits? Her daughter Pauline, 15 and best friend Juliet Hulme, 16. With “animal ferocity” they hit her over and over again with a brick inside a s
In 2011 Dean Richard Mulligan was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Marice McGregor. Marice was reported missing by her family in April 2010 and it emerged she had not been seen or heard from in the 10 days before th
George Gwaze was tried and acquitted in 2008 and 2012 after the death of his adopted daughter 10-year-old Charlene Makaza.Charlene was rushed to hospital in a terrible state in January 2007 and died after her little body effectively shut down
Jane Furlong was 17 when she went missing from Auckland's Karangahape Rd in May 1993.Her partner Dani Norsworthy reported her missing two days after she was last seen.She was a new mum and a part time sex worker and while she'd had a troubled
In this episode of A Moment In Crime - the last for 2023 - senior journalist Anna Leask looks back at some of the country’s most brazen prison escapes, and speaks to one of the most high-profile escapees in history.Arthur Taylor spent almost a
In 2000 Ronald Van Der Plaat became one of the country’s most infamous sex offenders when he was jailed for a litany of horrific abuse against his daughter spanning 23 years.He started raping, sexually violating and indecently assaulting his d
This episode of A Moment In Crime is a follow-up from the very first episode I produced about the Christchurch terror attack. As the Coronial inquest into the mass murder begins, it's important to remember what happened and who was responsible
A Moment In Crime - The Patron - looks back at the life and crimes of disgraced knight and serial sex attacker James Hay Wallace.Behind his money, philanthropy and resplendence, Wallace was a serial sex offender who lured men to his mansion on
A Moment In Crime - The Patron - looks back at the life and crimes of disgraced knight and serial sex attacker James Hay Wallace.Behind his money, philanthropy and resplendence, Wallace was a serial sex offender who lured men to his mansion on
A Moment In Crime is presenting a three part episode - The Patron - which looks back at the life and crimes of disgraced knight and serial sex attacker James Hay Wallace.Until his spectacular fall from grace, the Auckland rich lister was consi
In September 2021, Lauren Dickason killed her three daughters, six year old Liane, and two year old twins Maya and Karla, shortly after the family moved to Timaru from South Africa.For the last five weeks, Anna has been covering the trial, whi
In 2011 an incomplete skeleton was found at a derelict property in Auckland by a demolition crew tasked with dismantling the buildings on site. It took police months to work out who the remains belonged to - and then they had to work out who h
On May 5 2007 Lipine Sila murdered Hannah Rossiter and Jane Young and caused grievous bodily harm to eight other teens when he drove his car through a crowd outside a party in the Christchurch suburb of Edgeware. The collision took place after
In January 2008 Scottish woman Karen Aim was beaten to death while she was visiting Taupō on a trip around New Zealand.The 26-year-old was murdered in the street by a local teenager who had been vandalising a nearby school with a baseball bat.
March 30 marks the 20th anniversary of Waikato mother-of-three Sara Niethe's disappearance.Her body has never been found despite her boyfriend Mark Pakenham admitting he killed her.Pakenham was charged with her murder in 2011 but before his c
Warning: this episode contains graphic descriptions of murder and the disposal of a body and is suitable for a mature audience only. In 2010 Auckland woman Carmen Thomas was reported missing by her ex-partner Brad Callaghan. He told police she
Police figures show between mid-2012 and 2022, about 280 people were convicted of murder in Aotearoa.Of those, 9.5 per cent of offenders - 26 in total - were women.A further 47 women were convicted of manslaughter, 27 per cent of the 271 total
For nearly eight years Auckland woman Pakeeza Yusuf and her 3-yeard-old daughter, Juwairiyah “Jojo” Kalim, lay covered by stone and mud on Auckland’s North Shore.They were murdered as they slept in late 2006 but for many years nobody knew abou
In September 2008 New Zealanders were shocked by the killing of a man who stepped in to help a woman in danger in central Auckland.Austin Hemmings, 44, was fatally stabbed when he intervened in a confrontation as he left work. The good Samari
Christchurch caregiver Valerie May Heaney, 64, was found dead in the hallway of her Bromley home on April 4 2022. Initially, police said her death was unexplained but after a post-mortem examination, it became clear something violent and horri
When Phillip John Smith left a Waikato prison on approved temporary leave in 2014 no one suspected that within days he would be leading authorities on an international man hunt.Smith, also known as Phillip John Traynor, was meant to spend his
The 1998 murder of the Ashburton schoolgirl remains one of New Zealand's most high-profile cold cases.Kirsty disappeared on December 31, 1998, while walking the family dog Abby on the banks of the Ashburton River.The day after Kirsty went mis
In 2013 Auckland couple Glenys Stanton and Trevor Waite were gunned down in bed together at his home in Opaheke south of the city. Their killer was John Mowatt, an ex of Stanton who spiralled out of control when she ended their relationship.M
In October 1985 Arthur Easton was murdered in his Papakura family home.Easton and his two teenage sons were attacked by a bayonet-wielding home invader.The 52-year-old postal worker was stabbed in his liver during the frenzied attack and died
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