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True Crime New Zealand (NZ)
True Crime New Zealand is a kiwi based true crime podcast. It is storytelling based with no opinion, just facts. We are trying to give the big picture of these crimes with context as well as investigating what happened subsequently and how the crime affected the wider community of NZ. www.tru...
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Case 36: The Iceman
CALIFORNIA. USA. The drug that goes by many names, coke, blow, snow, has addictive properties. Use of cocaine induces tolerance to the effects and add...
Case 35: The RSA Murders
The Royal New Zealand Returned and Services Association, better known simply as the RSA was first established in New Zealand on the 28th of April 1916...
TALES II: Bloody Friday
On the 9th of June 1978, natives of the Southland city of Invercargill in the South Island of New Zealand were treated to a curious sight, 1,300 ewes...
INVESTIGATES III: Psychopathy
Psychopathy is no longer a diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as of the third edition. Rather the diagnosis would...
Case 34: Phyllis Symons
HATAITAI. WELLINGTON. Construction on, what would become, Mount Victoria Tunnel began in December 1929 and was estimated to take 15 months and cost ar...
Case 33: Waikino School Shooting
WAIKINO. WAIKATO. 19th of October 1923. 10 am. The Headmaster of Waikino School Robert Theodore Reid was in the teacher's room, perhaps going over som...
Case 32: The Newlands Baby Farmer (PART II)
NEWLANDS. WELLINGTON. Hugo Lupi was born sometime in the late 1800s possibly in Cairo, Egypt, to an Italian family. Hugo immigrated to New Zealand in...
Case 32: The Newlands Baby Farmer (PART I)
NEWLANDS. WELLINGTON. In the 1800s to early 1920s, there was another, more controversial, type of farming going on, baby farming. Baby farming is the...
TCNZ PODCAST UPDATE V
Hello friends,
Jessica here from True Crime NZ. This is a bit of a different podcast today, just to update you on some changes that have been ha...
Case 31: Christchurch House of Horrors (PART II)
CHRISTCHURCH. CANTERBURY. Thursday. 25th of September 2008. Some time between 11 am and 12.30 pm. 32-year-old Jason Somerville is home alone at his ho...
Case 31: Christchurch House of Horrors (PART I)
CHRISTCHURCH. CANTERBURY. Within the eastern suburbs of Christchurch, on the South Island of New Zealand, you will find Aranui. Originally called Flem...
HISTORY IV: 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour (PART II)
22nd July 1981. The Springboks began the journey down the east coast of New Zealand and found their way to Gisborne. The Springboks were to play Pover...
HISTORY IV: 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour (PART I)
Apartheid even extended to sport. Leagues were established in all sports, separated by race. For instance, football (soccer) was divided into the whit...
ANZAC III: The (Other) Great Escape
In 1937, Nazi Germany began work on building the first and the largest concentration camp in Germany. Found eight kilometres north of the city of Weim...
TCNZ PODCAST UPDATE IV
Kia ora koutou, Jessica here to give a quick update on the state of the podcast right now and upcoming releases. And where our heads are at right now.
Case 30: The Foxton Tragedy
FOXTON. MANAWATU-WHANGANUI. In 1866, Te Awahou was renamed Foxton; named after Sir William Fox the second premier of New Zealand (Premier meaning head...
Case 29: Elizabeth Battersea
PAKIRI. AUCKLAND. By the mid-1800s, conversations were being had surrounding further expansion of women’s rights within marriage, and their access to...
CHRISTMAS II: The Tangiwai Disaster
At 3 pm on Christmas Eve 1953, a Thursday, the daily Express train No. 626, a KA 949 class steam locomotive, left the Wellington railway station en ro...
TCNZ visits Canada: Greyhound Bus 1170 (PART II)
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, CANADA. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder in which sufferers interpret reality abnormally. This can manifest with disordered thin...
TCNZ visits Canada: Greyhound Bus 1170 (PART I)
PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, CANADA. A place distinguished for its politeness, Canada is a land with low crime rates and is considered to be one of the safest...
TALES I: Opo the Friendly Dolphin
In June 1955, three bottlenose dolphins were observed by a local fisherman on the shores of Opononi. Spotting the dolphins by their dorsal fin, he bel...
Case 28: The Bunker in the Bush
On the 10th of July 2002, a team of five Wellington council workers were wandering through the Rimutaka forest, near Upper Hutt, laying 1080 poison ba...
Case 27: The Naenae Bank Robbery
Robbery is different from theft, while both are the act of taking someone else's property unlawfully, robbery differentiates itself by its use of eith...
HISTORY III: The Mighty Mongrel Mob
The legend goes, sometime in the 1960s, a group of criminal youth appeared in front of a judge in Hastings, a city of 49,000 in the Hawke’s Bay region...
TCNZ PODCAST UPDATE III
Tēnā koutou friends,
Jessica here with a quick update on some things happening around the podcast. Just an unscripted update on the state of the...
ANZAC II: Private Victor Spencer
Victor Spencer first signed up to fight on the 16th of April 1915. Still only 18 years and 5 months old, he lied about his age, saying he was born two...
Case 26: Shayne Sime
CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY.
POLICE
"Is there any way that, is there any way... Is there any way we could change your mind on what you’re doi...
INVESTIGATES II: Suicide Prevention
Friends, suicide and depression are destressing topics. However, it is also for some; a bleak reality. Within our own lives, in the past couple of wee...
Case 25: Alice May Parkinson
NAPIER, HAWKE'S BAY. The tiny township of Hampden is found approximately 62km southwest of Hastings in the Hawke’s Bay region. Settled in 1863, the to...
Case 24: The Invercargill Tragedy
INVERCARGILL, SOUTHLAND. Wednesday, 8th of April 1908. 10.45am. Archibald McLean, a city missionary, left his house on Crinan Street in Invercargill,...
Case 23: The Aramoana Massacre (PART III)
ARAMOANA, OTAGO. By 8pm on the 13th of November 1990, Police were informed that there was an active shooting situation in Aramoana. The first to respo...
Case 23: The Aramoana Massacre (PART II)
ARAMOANA, OTAGO. 1990 was a special year for the citizens of New Zealand. It was Aotearoa’s sesquicentenary, NZ’s 150th year and local governments had...
Case 23: The Aramoana Massacre (PART I)
ARAMOANA, OTAGO. Located 27km north of Dunedin, tucked away at the mouth of the Otago Harbour in the South Island of New Zealand, you will find the sm...
Case 22: Bristol Family Murders (WHANGANUI CHRONICLES – PART III)
WHANGANUI, MANAWATU. In the decades subsequent to 1920, Wanganui did much growing. The town of Wanganui was officially upgraded to a city in 1924. Man...
Case 21: ‘The Wanganui Affair’ (WHANGANUI CHRONICLES – PART II)
WHANGANUI, MANAWATU. On the 15th of May 1920, Wanganui citizens were shocked by a crime that involved their elected Mayor. The crime was reported on l...
Case 20: Phoebe Veitch (WHANGANUI CHRONICLES – PART I)
WHANGANUI, MANAWATU. On the 27th of February 1883 something was found on the beach near the Whanganui river mouth that wasn’t the usual river byproduc...
Case 19: Gordon McKay
PIHA, AUCKLAND. In 1939 Piha was in the news for something completely unrelated to its beach; it was in the headlines for a house fire claiming the li...
Case 18: The Raurimu Rampage
RAURIMU, MANAWATU. Saturday the 8th of February 1997. 9.05am. Stephen Anderson walks into the kitchen holding a 12 gauge sawn-off shotgun and carrying...
ANZAC I: Caesar the Anzac Dog
In early 1916, the 4th Battalion of the NZ Rifle Brigade took part in a parade down Queen Street, Auckland before they embarked overseas to Egypt to f...
Case 17: Baby Kahurautete
LOWER HUTT. WELLINGTON. Saturday. 13th of April 2002. 11.20am. Donna Hall gathered her two nieces, Manumea and Erena Durie to take a morning stroll al...