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Denis Shanaghan was a settler of Ararimu, Auckland, New Zealand. Married with one child and another on the way, he was murdered by Martin Curtin on 16th December 1876. Full account saved in Media > do...

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The body of Anan Liu was found eight days after she was strangled to death with a necktie by her husband Nai Yin Xue in the Auckland suburb of Mount Roskill. The couple had married in an Auckland Regis...

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William Sailed on the Timandra in 1842. His Mother and father Samuel Crann and Half Siblings accompanied him amid steerage on board. He was Heir to ( Unknown Land or Titles) He was registered in the na...

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Killed by Thomas Tihema Christie. Sean's body was found by ambulance officers naked from the waist down in Christchurch's Auburn Reserve. He had drunk nine times the limit of alcohol allowed for a driv...

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Vanessa Pickering, 27, went missing from her Marine Parade home in Christchurch. Two days later her body was found on a hill near Godley Head. Pickering had been stabbed to death by Malcolm George Chas...

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Tortured and killed by her mother Ane Leaso in Cairns, Australia. Born in Tauranga, Faith suffered a year of emotional and physical abuse at the hands of her mother. More than 50 bruises covered her bo...

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1914 Ruahine axe murders. On 28 December a young German man, Arthur Rottman, brutally murdered his former employer Joseph McCann, his wife Lucy and their infant son John with an axe. No clear motive em...

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1914 Ruahine axe murders. On 28 December a young German man, Arthur Rottman, brutally murdered his former employer Joseph McCann, his wife Lucy and their infant son John with an axe. No clear motive em...

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1914 Ruahine axe murders. On 28 December a young German man, Arthur Rottman, brutally murdered his former employer Joseph McCann, his wife Lucy and their infant son John with an axe. No clear motive em...

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Young Boys Killed Baby. BLENHEIM, Fri, (PA.)— Evidence given at the inquiry yesterday into the death on December 2 of the Si-months-old son of Mr and Mrs Ross Gardiner, of Churchill Street, Blenheim, d...

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Doctors Describe Boy’s Injuries (New Zealand Press Association > WELLINGTON. Sept. 24. Two doctors said in the Lower Hutt; Magistrate’s Court today that extensive bruising on the head and body of a boy...

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HUSBAND CHARGED Three Stabbed To Death (N.Z. Press Association) WHANGAREI, November 7. Findings of death from stab wounds were returned by the District Coroner (Mr W. L. Hughes) when the inquests into ...

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Ante Pećar arrived at Fremantle, Western Australia per the vessel, SS Orizaba on 19 February 1903; from Naples via Ports. En route to Sydney; bound for New Zealand. On board with Luka Devcich and Petar...

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Couple Gaoled For Infant Son’s Death (New Zealand Press Association) GISBORNE, Nov. 5. A married couple were sentenced to gaol by Mr Justice Moller today for the “very gruesome” killing of their five-m...

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MOTHER ON CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 20. Mihi Marie Mullen, aged 25, married, appeared in the Supreme Court, Wellington, today charged with the manslaughte...

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Killed by her lover George Errol Coats [hanged]. Made to kneel, hit over head with spade twice, buried alive (17 years & pregnant). Place of burial would become Mount Victoria Tunnel - construction sta...

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Olive Oriwia Walker, aged 18, was murdered at Rotorua on May 15, 1970, by a person or persons unknown. On the evening of 15 May 1970 Mary Walker was waiting at her home in Malfroy Road, Rotorua, for he...

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ALLEGED MURDER OF CHILD. WOMAN CHARGED IN HOSPITAL (New Zealand Press Association) PALMERSTON NORTH, March 5. Constance Gay Weaver, aged 31, a machinist and married woman, of Pongaroa, and formerly of ...

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Kylie Smith, 15, was killed in South Otago in 1991 after Paul David Bailey abducted her while she rode her horse. Sources

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