Murder

By Kirsty Johnston: The murder of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in their Pukekawa farmhouse in 1970 remains New Zealand’s most infamous cold case. Audio

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The Mr Big technique is a powerful tool used to get criminals to confess. But is it fair? Is it just? Or does it lead to false convictions? Audio

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. Audio

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… Audio

Residents in the Auckland suburb of Sandringham are reeling after a worker at a local dairy was stabbed to death.

The 34-year old victim was looking after the dairy for its long-serving and much… Video, Audio

The new school curriculum of Aotearoa's history is in the process of making its way into practice. And it's likely to ruffle a few feathers along the way. Joanna Kidman and Vincent O'Malley are with… Audio

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. Audio

Marlborough Sounds killer Scott Watson has again been denied parole, 23 years after he was imprisoned for the murder of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope.

The 50-year-old was sentenced to life in prison in… Audio

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.  Audio

Socialite Jasmine Hartin has been charged with manslaughter by negligence after, she says, accidentally shooting police superintendent Henry Jemmott in Belize. Journalist Tom Leonard recently… Audio

A so-called 'scout' in the alleged murder of 'Ricky' Wang helped clean up at the scene, bury a body in the central North Island and keep quiet for two years.

Mr Wang went missing in 2017 and his body… Audio

It has been revealed one of the men on trial over the Red Fox Tavern murder more than 30 years ago was jailed for a similar robbery several years earlier.

Forty-three-year-old father of two Chris… Video, Audio

Evidence from a man who died two years ago has been read out to a jury in a 30-year cold case.

Waikato publican Chris Bush was gunned down during a robbery at the Red Fox Tavern in October 1987.

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Shona Riddell enjoys cold, windy weather and stories about remote locations. She's also had a long-held fascination for lighthouses. So it's perhaps no surprise her new book, Guiding Lights tells the… Audio

The Court of Appeal is today hearing the appeal for the man who murdered British backpacker, Grace Millane, in his CityLife apartment in 2018.

The 28-year-old strangled Ms Millane, before watching… Audio

Former policeman Joseph DeAngelo, the man known as the Golden State Killer, admitted to 13 murders and myriad other crimes in court this week in a plea deal designed to spare him the death penalty… Audio