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A jury has found Tipene Te Ahuru guilty of murdering his baby son Amaziah after deliberating for a little under three hours. The unanimous verdict came on Tuesday afternoon after a week of evidence at ...

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Sixteen-year-old Wendy Catherine Mayes disappeared in September 1961 after answering a newspaper advert for a photographer's model. Police know that she met a man in a coffee bar on September 18 and th...

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Peter Boland was just 9 years old when he disappeared in August 1957 at a farm near Ōpōtiki in the eastern Bay of Plenty. No trace of him has ever been found. No police records or files seem to have be...

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Joanne Chatfield - or ‘Joe’ - as she was known, was last seen by friends in central Auckland just before midnight on Saturday, 19 November 1988. She was leaving the Auckland University Student Union ar...

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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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Killed by father Donovan Michael Duff. Maija had traces of methamphetamine in her system when she received multiple blows to her head at her Tūrangi home from methamphetamine addict Donovan. This cause...

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Killed by unlicensed driver William Nicholson-Kuiti. After attending a 21st birthday party, Bailey decided to get a ride with William, another partygoer who had been drinking. Neither he, nor fellow pa...

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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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Killed by grandmother Kathleen Elizabeth Cooper who was the carer of her four pre-school aged grandchildren and said to be a "harsh disciplinarian." Jermaine had learning difficulties and struggled to ...

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Killed by dangerous driver Levi Phillip Fiddymont who was driving without an appropriate licence, and speeding through the S-bends on the narrow, twisty, and rough Summit Road in Port Hills, Christchur...

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'Taytay' Killed by dangerous driver Levi Phillip Fiddymont who was driving without an appropriate licence, and speeding through the S-bends on the narrow, twisty, and rough Summit Road in Port Hills, C...

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Killed by uncle Boston Liam Wilson. Chance had extensive bleeding on his brain, bleeding behind the eyes, splitting of the retinas, widespread brain damage, fractures to his skull and spinal bleeding w...

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Maternal aunt Amy Wharehinga guilty of neglect and of perverting the course of justice. Casino was killed by Amy's partner Te Ngahuru McClutchie. She suffered multiple injuries between 19 December 2021...

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Hope Elizabeth Wallis McFall-Schultz died in Starship Hospital on January 26, 2022, four days after she was taken to Southland Hospital with critical injuries inflicted by her father. Daniel Wallis for...

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Mother charged with murder of four-month-old son. A solo mother, who lived in a small bedsitter with her baby who had a loud demanding cry, battered the child so badly that he died from severe head inj...

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Michael Corbey Beaton was born in Auckland on 27 October 1896 (reg. 1896/7818). 'Michael was two years eight months when taken into care. He had only been there nine months when he died. The Coroner‘s ...

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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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