Murder

New Zealand's new Covid-19 cases and the troubles at our borders, the police shooting in West Auckland, health reforms and taxes are on the agenda for our Sunday Morning panellists Linda Clark and… Audio

Dr. Graham Hill is a criminologist and child protection expert who was sent to Portugal only days after British toddler Madeleine McCann went missing. He says the entire investigation was… Audio

Diane Goldstein is a 21-year veteran of the Redondo Beach Police Department. She says the recent deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd highlight the structural racism that is rife in both the US… Audio

Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz announced today that he was fully mobilising the National Guard to help the violent unrest that followed protests over the death of George Floyd. Christiane Cordero joins… Audio

War correspondent Toby Muse spent 15 years living in Colombia and gained an unprecedented level of access to the local drug cartels. His new book, Kilo, traces the life cycle of a kilogram of cocaine.

Writer Peter Swanson says there are eight examples of the perfect murder in fictional writing. Swanson's latest novel, Rules for Perfect Murder, highlights a series of unsolved murders with one thing… Audio

A jury has acquitted a woman accused of murdering her abusive partner in their South Auckland home.

Karen Anne Ruddelle was found not guilty of the murder of her partner Joseph Ngapera but guilty of… Video, Audio

Women's Refuge's Ang Jury joins the panel to discuss the case of a woman and her children killed, allegedly be her estranged husband. Audio

Jimmy Dennis was wrongfully convicted for a crime he didn't commit after a 17-year-old girl was murdered in 1991. He spent 25 years on death row, but eventually his conviction was overturned. And now… Audio

When pregnant 17-year-old Phyllis Symons's body was found buried in the construction site of Wellington's Mount Victoria Tunnel in 1931 her death and the subsequent trial of her boyfriend for murder… Audio

Gone Fishing one year on: More rumours emerge, another witness recants and Gail Maney finds new allies in her fight to prove her innocence. .Produced by Amy Maas and Adam Dudding. Audio

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A woman accused of murdering Dimetrius Pairama told police she loved the Auckland teenager and tried to save her the night she died.

Miss Pairama's… Audio

Mark Lundy's last-ditch appeal against his convictions for murdering his wife and daughter 19 years ago has wrapped up its first day in the Supreme Court.

Lundy was convicted in 2002 of the murder of… Video, Audio

A neuropathologist has told a jury a Northland toddler died of a "catastrophic" head injury so severe the young girl could never have survived it.

Two-year-old Ariah Roberts died in her home at… Video, Audio

Ayham al-Ahmad became famous after playing his piano in the rubble of Syria's Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus. He has also written a book, The Pianist of Yarmouk. Audio

Whanganui woman Lorraine Smith, who strangled her 13-year-old granddaughter with a necktie, has been sentenced to 12 years in jail and will be eligible for parole after six years. Video, Audio

Journalist Tom O'Neill has spent the last two decades wading through Charles Manson-related files to offer a new take on one of the most infamous cases in American history.  Audio

Back in 1978 the bodies of two British backpackers were found in the sea off the Guatemalan coast in central America. It was obvious that Chris Farmer and Peta Frampton had been been murdered, but for… Audio

Two cousins linked to the Comancheros have been found guilty of murdering a man and trying to murder his wife in Māngere last year. Court reporter Anneke Smith has the details. Video, Audio