TRUECRIMEPODCASTS
Big cases. Dark deeds. Secrets and lies revealed. These podcasts lift the rock on some the New Zealand’s most compelling and controversial crimes.
She says she didn’t murder him, she’d never met him. She says he wasn’t even murdered. So did Gail Maney do it?
Gail Maney spent 15 years in prison for taking out a hit on man she says she never met. This award-winning investigation into two murders reveals new questions. Listen to the whole podcast
The day I turned 10, my mother told me she’d been a spy
John Daniell grew up in a house of spies. Nearly 40 years on, he and Guyon Espiner reveal what NZ spies got up to in the Cold War. Listen to the full podcast
How far would you go to get to the truth… even if everyone else had already found it?
Chicago podcaster Amy Upbright arrives at the scene of the generation-old murder in Sharon’s Valley, New Zealand, determined to get to the truth. Even if it’s not true. Listen to the full podcast
“Four shots. And then another”. A young Napier woman guns down her fiance, changing New Zealand’s laws and ideas of justice
Black Sheep tells the stories of this country’s shadiest, dodigest characters. In this episode 1915 New Zealand is rocked by a murder that raises questions about vengance and victimhood.
Kirsa Jensen went missing 37 years ago and for her mum, Robyn, time is running out
The Lost looks into the cold cases of New Zealanders who never came home. One of the best known is Kirsa Jensen, the 14 year-old took her horse Commodore for a ride in 1983 and disappeared from a Hawke’s Bay beach.
Journalists talk about the big crime stories they’ve covered in Crimes NZ. David Lomas tells how Marty Johnstone and Terry Clark started smuggling heroine into New Zealand and ran the Mr Asia gang.
How some farmers lost their land & lives through dodgy bank swaps
Janette Walker has a box of letters from farmers she calls her “suicide box”. It’s the starting point for a story of farmers sold swaps by their banks; financial deals that went horribly wrong, destroying families and their livelihoods.