Podcasts by Crimes NZ
Jesse Mulligan talks with investigators, journalists and others about major crimes in New Zealand
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Case #054 - The Mysterious Suitcase&The Fraudster from 2023-07-06T05:00
A suitcase was found floating in the Waitematā Harbour in 1966. Its contents kicked off an international manhunt and one of Aotearoa's biggest fraudsters. Joseph Sheehan BEM was a detective on the ...
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Case #053 - Crooked Cop Michael Blowers from 2023-06-29T05:00
Michael Blowers was a police officer, family man and pillar of the community. He was also stealing drugs from the police exhibit room and giving them to his mistress to sell. RNZ's Charlie Dreaver ...
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Case #052 - The Unsolved Murder of Arthur Blomfield from 2023-06-22T05:00
True crime writer Scott Bainbridge takes us through the unsolved murder of pharmacist Arthur Blomfield, who was bludgeoned to death in his Auckland store, Mackay's Dispensary, in 1931.
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Case #051 - The Trial of Alan Hall from 2023-06-15T05:00
Alan Hall spent nearly two decades in jail for the 1985 murder of Arthur Easton. In 2022 his convictions were quashed. Stuff journalist Mike White explains the flaws in the case against Hall and Ge...
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Case #050 - Conman Wayne Eaglesome from 2023-06-08T05:00
Stuff's senior crime reporter tells Jesse Mulligan about his ongoing hunt for one of Aotearoa's most prolific conmen.
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Case #049 - The Trial of Pedro Cleven from 2023-06-01T05:00
Welcome back to Season 8 of Crimes NZ. In this episode, we hear about one of our country's most sensational trials - that of headhunters gang member Pedro Cleven.
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Case #048 - The Abandonment of Pumpkin from 2023-01-05T05:00
It was a case that shocked the world. A 3-year-old abandoned in an Australian train station, her mother murdered in New Zealand and her father on the run in America.
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Case #047 - Sophie Elliott from 2022-12-29T05:00
In January 2008, Gil Elliott received the worst news possible. His 22-year-old daughter Sophie had been stabbed to death. He talks to Jesse Mulligan about those moments, the horror that followed an...
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Case #046 - The Unsolved Murder of Elsie Walker from 2022-12-22T05:00
The 1928 murder of Elsie Walker is one of New Zealand's oldest cold cases. She disappeared from the Bay of Plenty and her body was discovered by schoolboys, days later, in Auckland.
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Case #045 - Taito Phillip Field from 2022-12-15T05:00
In 2009, Taito Phillip Field was convicted of bribery and corruption and sentenced to six years in prison. Lockwood Smith was an opposition MP and recalls keeping the pressure on in parliament, to ...
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Case #044 - Emma Agnew from 2022-12-08T05:00
In 2007, 20-year-old Emma Agnew put a sign up in her car advertising it for sale. A man answered the ad, but he wasn't interested in buying the car. As Stuff senior reporter Martin Van Beynan descr...
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Case #043 - A Conman Gets Conned from 2022-12-01T05:00
Emma Ferris loaned $300,000 to her boyfriend only to discover he was conning her. In this episode of Crimes NZ, Emma describes the battle for her life-savings and her future.
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Case #042 - The Timaru Poisonings from 2022-05-12T05:00
In 1886 the bustling town of Timaru was stunned when society darling Thomas Hall was arrested for the attempted murder of his wife, Kitty. Author Peter Graham outlines one of the most sensational c...
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Case #041 - The Bain Family Murders from 2022-05-05T05:00
David Bain spent 13 years in prison after being found guilty of killing his family in 1994 – however he always maintained his innocence and he was acquitted in a retrial in 2009.
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Case #040 - Delcelia Witika from 2022-04-28T05:00
The presiding judge described the death of Delcelia Witika as one of the most disturbing cases of child abuse to come before the High Court. David Mcloughlin covered the case.
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Case #039 - Aramoana from 2022-04-21T05:00
In November 1990, thirteen people were shot and killed in the seaside village of Aramoana. Tim Ashton was a member of the anti-terrorism squad that was sent in to stop the gunman.
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Case #038 - The David Ross Ponzi Scheme from 2022-04-14T05:00
David Ross was jailed in 2013 for running a ponzi scheme that resulted in thousands of New Zealand investors losing millions of dollars.
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Case #037 - Robert Gawith from 2022-04-07T05:00
In 1987, pig hunters stumbled upon the body of Robert Gawith kicking off a murder inquiry with links to the infamous Mr Asia drug syndicate.
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Case #037 The murder of Robert Gawith from 2022-04-07T05:00
In 1987, pig hunters stumbled upon the body of Robert Gawith kicking off a murder inquiry with links to the infamous Mr Asia drug syndicate.
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Case #036 - Scott Guy from 2022-03-01T05:00
In the early hours of July 8, 2010, Scott Guy was gunned down at his farm gate. Police suspected his brother-in-law, but he was found not-guilty and no one else has been held accountable for the ki...
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Case #035 - Cynthia Grierson Jackson from 2022-02-22T05:00
In 1960, police discovered the body of a man in a central Auckland apartment, but it is the disappearance of his wife, Cynthia Grierson Jackson that has baffled police for more than half a decade.
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Case #034 - Raurimu from 2022-02-15T05:00
Six people were killed and four injured when Stephen Anderson took his father's shotgun and went on a rampage in the sleepy North Island settlement of Raurimu, in 1997. Michael Morrah interviewed A...
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Case #033 - Honora Parker from 2022-02-08T05:00
In the winter of 1954, two schoolgirls - Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme - murdered Pauline’s mother on a remote walking track in Christchurch. Author Peter Graham recounts the events leading to Ho...
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Case #032 - Ruby Knox from 2022-02-01T05:00
Barrister Simon Shamy describes the tragic murder of Ruby Knox. He represented Donella Knox who admitted killing her daughter.
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Case #031 - Heidi Charles from 2022-01-25T05:00
On New Years Eve, 1976, 36-year-old Heidi Charles vanished without a trace. True crime writer Scott Bainbridge explains how this baffling case has been mixed up with other high-profile disappearances.
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Case #030 - Emily Longley from 2021-11-08T05:00
In 2011, 17 year-old Emily Longley was strangled to death by her boyfriend. Her father, Mark Longley, recounts the battle for justice and the healing process.
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Case #029 - David McNee from 2021-11-01T05:00
David McNee was beaten to death in his own home in 2003. His killer was found guilty of manslaughter after using a provocation defence referred to as the 'gay panic' defence.
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Case #028 - The Waterfront Robbery from 2021-10-25T05:00
It's one of the most brazen robberies in New Zealand's history. In November 1956, Auckland mobsters made off with the equivalent today of $1 million after breaking into the Waterfront Industry Comm...
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Case #027 - Margery Hopegood from 2021-10-18T05:00
The 1992 murder of English tourist, Margery Hopegood, stunned the country. She was in New Zealand to discover her roots, but was stabbed to death in a Hamilton toilet block.
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Case #026 - Alicia O'Reilly from 2021-10-11T05:00
On August 16, 1980, 6 year-old Alicia O’Reilly was found dead in her bed, in the room she shared with her 8-year-old sister. For years the case has gone unsolved, but police are currently following...
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Case #025 - The Napier Siege from 2021-10-04T05:00
In May 2009, three Napier police officers entered Jan Molenaar's home searching for drugs. The execution of a simple search warrant turned into a three day stand-off and ended with two deaths.
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Case #024 - The Kahui Twins from 2021-09-27T06:00
Chris 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.
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Case #023 - Kirsa Jensen from 2021-09-20T06:00
On 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.
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Case #022 - Lorraine&Aaron Cohen from 2021-09-13T06:00
Lorraine Cohen and her son Aaron spent much of the 80's locked up in a Malaysia prison facing the death penalty.
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Case #021 - South Canterbury Finance from 2021-09-06T06:00
It 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.
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Case #020 - The Black Widow from 2021-08-30T06:00
Philip Nisbet was found dead in his Christchurch home on May 4, 2009. Four years later his wife was found guilty of murder.
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Case #019 - Jane Furlong from 2021-08-23T06:00
The disappearance of Jane Furlong is a mystery that has gripped the nation for nearly thirty years.
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Case #014 - Christine and Amber Lundy from 2021-07-12T06:00
In 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.
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Case #016 - How To Murder Your Wife from 2021-07-12T06:00
The details of the 1977 murder of Betty Benning were so bizarre, movie producer Philly De Lacey turned it into a black comedy.
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Case #013 - Teresa Cormack from 2021-07-12T06:00
Six-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.
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Case #014 - Is Mark Lundy Innocent? from 2021-07-12T06:00
In 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.
Case #015 - Coral-Ellen Burrows from 2021-07-12T06:00
Coral-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.
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Case #016 - Betty Benning from 2021-07-12T06:00
The details of the 1977 murder of Betty Benning were so bizarre, movie producer Philly De Lacey turned it into a black comedy.
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Case #017 - The Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior from 2021-07-12T06:00
The 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.
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Case #018 - The Kidnapping of Baby Kahu from 2021-07-12T06:00
In 2002, an armed stranger snatched Baby Kahu from her stroller and held her for ransom for nine long days.
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Case #007 - The Trades Hall Bombing from 2020-10-08T09:00
It'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 remembe...
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Case #008 - The Pamper Party Murder from 2020-10-08T09:00
In 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.
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Case #010 - The Swedish Backpackers Murder from 2020-10-08T09:00
In 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 from 2020-10-08T09:00
15-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 journalis...
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Case #007 - Trades Hall Bombing from 2020-10-08T09:00
It'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 remembe...
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Case #008 - Pamper Party Murder from 2020-10-08T09:00
In 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.
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Case #010 - Swedish Backpackers murder from 2020-10-08T09:00
In 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 murder from 2020-10-08T09:00
15-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 journalis...
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Case #011 - The Poisoned Professor from 2020-10-08T09:00
Canterbury plant scientist David Lloyd fell severely ill in suspicious circumstances in 1992. The ensuing investigation became known as the 'poisoned professor case'.
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Case #012 - Heavy Metal from 2020-10-08T09:00
On 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 th...
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Case #005 - Peter Plumley-Walker&the Dominatrix from 2020-08-05T09:00
The 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.
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Case #006 - The Mr Asia Drug Ring from 2020-06-25T09:00
Investigative 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 ...
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Case #004 - The Trial of David Dougherty from 2020-06-24T16:00
David 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 h...
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Case #004 - David Dougherty from 2020-06-24T16:00
David 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 h...
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Case #003 - Gail Maney from 2020-06-23T18:00
Former police officer turned private detective Tim McKinnel believes Gail Maney is the victim of a miscarriage of justice. He talks about the campaign to uncover the evidence to have her e...
Case #003 - The Disappearance of Deane Fuller-Sandys from 2020-06-23T18:00
Deane 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.
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Case #002 - Teina Pora's Wrongful Conviction from 2020-06-22T09:00
Teina 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 ...
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Case #001 - Olivia Hope and Ben Smart from 2020-06-19T09:00
Olivia 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 ...
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