Crimes NZ
Jesse Mulligan talks with investigators, journalists and others about major crimes in New Zealand
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Jesse Mulligan, host of the daily Afternoons programme on RNZ, talks one-on-one with investigators, journalists and others about some of the major crimes that have happened in Aotearoa / New Zealand
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Case #024 - The Kahui Twins
27 Sep 2021Chris and Cru Kahui were just 84 days old when they were fatally injured in their Auckland home. Their father, also Chris, was charged with murder but eventually acquitted of the crime. Read more Audio
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Case #023 - Kirsa Jensen
20 Sep 2021On September 1, 1983 Kirsa Jensen saddled up her horse for a ride along Awatoto beach, near her home in Napier and was never seen again. Read more Audio
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Case #022 - Lorraine & Aaron Cohen
13 Sep 2021Lorraine Cohen and her son Aaron spent much of the 80's locked up in a Malaysia prison facing the death penalty. Read more Audio
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Case #021 - South Canterbury Finance
6 Sep 2021It was the biggest white collar crime New Zealand had ever seen, totalling $1.5 billion dollars, and at the centre of it all was South Canterbury Finance. Read more Audio
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Case #020 - The Black Widow
30 Aug 2021Philip Nisbet was found dead in his Christchurch home on May 4, 2009.
Four years later his wife was found guilty of murder. Read more Audio
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Case #019 - Jane Furlong
23 Aug 2021The disappearance of Jane Furlong is a mystery that has gripped the nation for nearly thirty years. Read more Audio
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Case #018 - The Kidnapping of Baby Kahu
12 Jul 2021In 2002, an armed stranger snatched Baby Kahu from her stroller and held her for ransom for nine long days. Read more Audio
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Case #017 - The Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
12 Jul 2021The 1985 bombing of the Rainbow Warrior is described as the first act of terrorism against New Zealand. An assault which claimed the life of Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira. Read more Audio
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Case #016 - How To Murder Your Wife
12 Jul 2021The details of the 1977 murder of Betty Benning were so bizarre, movie producer Philly De Lacey turned it into a black comedy. Read more Audio
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Case #015 - Coral-Ellen Burrows
12 Jul 2021Coral-Ellen Burrows was reported missing on September 9th, 2003. She was six years old.
Former detective John Gualter worked on the case, known as Operation Reef. Read more Audio
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Case #014 - Christine and Amber Lundy
12 Jul 2021In 2002, Mark Lundy was found guilty of killing his wife Christine and 7-year old daughter Amber, but investigative journalist Mike White has some questions about the prosecution's case. Read more Audio
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Case #013 - Teresa Cormack
12 Jul 2021Six-year old Teresa Cormack went missing in 1987. Her body was found 10 days later. For 15 years her murder remained unsolved, until investigators got the breakthrough of the century. Read more Audio
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Case #012 - Heavy Metal
8 Oct 2020On a Sunday afternoon in Christchurch in 1996, scrap metal dealer John Reynolds failed to return home for lunch. Later that evening, his brother found the 55-year-old lying in a pool of blood at the… Read more Audio
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Case #011 - The Poisoned Professor
8 Oct 2020Canterbury plant scientist David Lloyd fell severely ill in suspicious circumstances in 1992.
The ensuing investigation became known as the 'poisoned professor case'. Read more Audio
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Case #010 - The Swedish Backpackers Murder
8 Oct 2020In 1989, two Swedish tourists, Sven Urban Höglin and Heidi Paakkonen, went missing in the Coromandel. Mr Höglin's body was discovered by pig hunters in 1991, but Ms Paakkonen has not been seen since.
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Case #009 - Kirsty Bentley
8 Oct 202015-year-old Canterbury teenager, Kirsty Bentley from Ashburton went missing after taking her dog for a walk on New Year's Eve in 1998 - her body was found just over two weeks later. Stuff journalists… Read more Audio
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Case #008 - The Pamper Party Murder
8 Oct 2020In October 2016, a group of women gathered in West Auckland for a pamper party. It ended with the death of Carly Stewart. Defence lawyer, Marie Dyhrberg QC was involved in the case. Read more Audio
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Case #007 - The Trades Hall Bombing
8 Oct 2020It's one of the most famous unsolved mysteries in New Zealand history.In 1984, a bomb went off on the Trades Hall in Wellington killing caretaker Ernie Abbott. Former Secretary Graeme Clark remembers… Read more Audio
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Case #006 - The Mr Asia Drug Ring
25 Jun 2020Investigative journalist and presenter David Lomas began covering the Mr Asia drug ring case when he was a crime reporter at the Dominion newspaper in Wellington in 1978. He has followed the story… Read more Audio
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Case #005 - Peter Plumley-Walker & the Dominatrix
5 Aug 2020The case that brought the word "bondage" to dinner tables around the nation. Renee Chignall was a teenage dominatrix who was tried three times for the murder of Peter Plumley-Walker in January 1989. Read more Audio
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Case #004 - The Trial of David Dougherty
24 Jun 2020David Dougherty was convicted for the rape and abduction of an 11 year old girl in 1993. But he wasn't guilty of the crime. Donna Chisholm was the journalist at the centre of the campaign to free him… Read more Audio
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Case #003 - The Disappearance of Deane Fuller-Sandys
23 Jun 2020Deane Fuller-Sandys went missing on 21 August,1989 after setting off to go fishing at the rough West Auckland beach Whatipu and for nearly a decade he was presumed drowned. Read more Audio
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Case #002 - Teina Pora's Wrongful Conviction
22 Jun 2020Teina Pora was wrongly imprisoned for 20 years for the rape and murder of Susan Burdett, brutally attacked in her Papatoetoe home in March 1992. Investigative journalist Eugene Bingham joins Jesse to… Read more Audio
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Case #001 - Olivia Hope and Ben Smart
19 Jun 2020Olivia Hope and Ben Smart disappeared in the Marlborough Sounds in the early hours of New Year's Day in 1998. Investigative journalist and author, Mike White, has covered this case through all its… Read more Audio
Jesse Mulligan, host of the daily Afternoons programme on RNZ, talks one-on-one with investigators, journalists and others about some of the major crimes that have happened in Aotearoa, New Zealand
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