A Moment In Crime

The murders of Christine Lundy and her young daughter Amber in their own home in 2000 is still a case that New Zealanders find shocking.

And it's a case everyone has an opinion on - even more so after two decades of hearing the facts in various trials, appeals and other court settings.

This is because Christine's husband - the father of her only child - was charged with the grisly murders.

But after 20 years he maintains his innocence.

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In August 1980 six-year-old Alicia O'Reilly was raped and killed in her bed by an intruder. Her sister was sleeping less than a metre away. Forty years on, the offender has never been found and her family are still desperate for answers.

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In the early hours of June 8 2010, Feilding farmer Scott Guy was gunned down in the driveway of his rural home as he headed out to work. A decade on, despite an arrest and a high profile trial, there has been no one held accountable for the slaying, and no justice for Scott or his family.

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On June 17 1970 Harvey and Jeanette Crewe were gunned down in the living room of their Pukekawa farmhouse. Fifty years have passed since the brutal crime - which remains unsolved despite one man being convicted twice of murder. In episode seven of Herald podcast A Moment in Crime, we look back at the infamous cold case - one of New Zealand's most enduring murder mysteries.

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Kidnapped: The bizarre abduction of Baby Kahu

In 2002 a baby girl was snatched from her pram as her mother pushed her through a quiet Wellington suburb. For days the nation - and the world - watched on as the hunt for Baby Kahu intensified. How did it end and who took her? We look back a the most gripping kidnapping case in NZ history.

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In 2009 Auckland man Blazej Kot murdered his new bride in New York State. We look back at the case - including the computer science student's bizarre trial and where he is now.

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In 2008 Tisha Lowry went missing in Christchurch without a trace. In 2009 her neighbour reported his own wife missing. When he went into a local police station days later, no one could have imagined what he would admit to, and why. We look back at the double murderer and the women he destroyed and buried below his own home.

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Kayo Matsuzawa’s body was found stashed in a small cupboard in a building in Auckland’s CDB in 1998.

She was naked, she had been there for at least 10 days.

And 21 years on - even in spite of a hefty $75,000 reward offered in 2007 - her killer has never been caught.

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In 2009 a toddler vanished in West Auckland.

For more than a week police, search specialists and volunteers combed the city for any sign of the little girl.

But she was nowhere to be found.

As investigators started to fear foul play, a shocking and tragic discovery was made.

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