Crimes NZ

Dig into the biggest crimes in New Zealan history with the investigators and journalists who know the cases best.

Contains violent themes.

Hosted by Jesse Mulligan

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Case #007 - The Trades Hall Bombing

Season 2 / Episode 7
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 remembers that day and the confusion that followed.
Contains discussions of violence
Ernie Abbott, with cauliflower.

Case #008 - The Pamper Party Murder

Season 2 / Episode 8
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.
Contains discussions of violence
A woman paints a customer's nails during a pedicure in a beauty salon.

Case #009 - Kirsty Bentley

Season 2 / Episode 9
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 journalists Blair Ensor and Martin van Beynen recently completed an investigative piece on the unsolved case.
Contains discussions of violence
Kirsty Bentley

Case #010 - The Swedish Backpackers Murder

Season 2 / Episode 10
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.
Contains discussions of violence
Swedish tourists Heidi Paakkonen, 21, and her fiance Sven Hoglin, 23.

Case #011 - The Poisoned Professor

Season 2 / Episode 11
Canterbury plant scientist David Lloyd fell severely ill in suspicious circumstances in 1992. The ensuing investigation became known as the 'poisoned professor case'.
Contains discussions of violence
poison

Case #012 - Heavy Metal

Season 2 / Episode 12
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 the scrap yard.
Contains discussions of violence
John Reynolds

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