Sinister Dynasty - New Zealand (NZ) True Crime Podcast

Andi takes Ayla on a two-parter, covering the disappearances of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope. The two friends were celebrating the New Year of 1998 at Furneaux Lodge in Marlborough Sounds, and went back to their yacht in the early morning. With no place onboard to sleep, they were picked up again around 3.30am where they were offered a place by a stranger. They were dropped with the stranger between 4 and 5am, and have not been seen since. A boat was seized shortly after that found hairs on board matching Olivia. Scott Watson was found to be the stranger and was sentenced to life imprisonment. This is despite there being no evidence for the two-trip theory, which meant Scott had to leave his yacht and come back to shore before hopping on the water taxi with Ben and Olivia. It has led many to think this was a case of wrongful imprisonment. What do you think?

 
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The rise and fall of the of the Mr Asia Drug Syndicate. 

Ayla talks to Andi about who Mr Asia was, how it all started, the syndicate at its highest, what went wrong and the event that unfolded!

1970s the era of economic and social change! Chinees Jack would sail through the Rangitoto Channel in Auckland, tossing budda sticks into the water, lying in wait were Marty Johnstone aka Mr Asia and Andrew Maher ready to collect the sticks. Bringing in Terry Clarke Aka the Australian Jackal, Mr Big, they expanded, cutting Chinese Jack out of operations. Starting their “Asian expansion” which produced a return revenue of million. This was the beginnings of the Mr Asia Syndicate. With the success of the Asian expansion, they broadened their horizons creating deals across the globe! 

 
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Ayla covers the enormous drug syndicate, the biggest drug syndicate ever in New Zealand. Follow along to hear this amazing, little known story!! Mr Asia is known throughout the world. 

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Andi explores the murder of Honorah Rieper and the events of that "Happy Day". 

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 Ayla covers the disappearance of Mona Blades, she is still missing today!

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DO YOU HAVE ANY INFO ON MONA BLADES?? 
https://www.police.govt.nz/stolenwanted/coldcase/2020/mona-elizabeth-blades-1975

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Andi discusses the horrific murder and sexual assault of Susan Burdett. A case that has many surprises and twists and turns. 

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Ayla tells Andi about Gay Oakes and her partner, Doug Gardner. They had four children together (six total) and over the course of their relationship Doug would boss Gay around and physically, emotionally, and sexually abuse her. Gay and the children moved into women’s refuge as Gay separated from Doug, she also found a property to move into. However, Doug always knew where they were and eventually moved back in, with family court putting him through anger management. Gay tried to make Doug leave multiple times, but this only made him angrier. One night Gay threatened to leave and go to the police, which caused Doug to spiral out of control. He yelled at her to make a coffee, which she did to avoid being sexually abused. As she was making it, she found a mix of pills, so she mixed these into his coffee before giving it to him. Doug did not notice and eventually he fell asleep on the couch. Gay dragged him to the bedroom and then went out the next morning, and when she came home, he was dead. Gay had help to bury his body in the garden shed, and Doug was reported as missing until Gay was convicted 2 years later in 1994. She was released in 2002 under her plea for battered women syndrome.

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One of our more upsetting cases. Andi tells Ayla about Brian Schalepfer and his family, living on a farm block in Paerata. In 1992, Brian snapped and murdered his wife Jocelyn in their bedroom. Their adult son Karl was next, before Brian went downstairs to find and shoot his youngest son, Darrell. Brian’s daughter-in-law, Hazel, heard noise and so came to investigate, but ran back home after being shot at herself. As she was calling the police, Brian came into the house and went to her son Aaron’s bedroom, shooting and killing him. He tried to find Hazel’s other children, but Linda had hidden in her room and Kerry was off the property. Brian then went back to Hazel and shot her again, killing her. He went to look outside for Linda, but instead found his eldest, Peter, before shooting and killing him. Brian then went into the bush and shot himself in the head. This was less than 2 years after the Aramoana Massacre.

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Ayla talks to Andi about the case of Gwenda Sloane. She starts off with Michelle Hoffman-Tram, who saw her family regularly and contributed greatly to her community. In 2012 Michelle received a text from her friend and lover Gwenda Sloane, and she made plans to bike over after helping her sister. That evening, Gwenda smashed Michelle’s face with a kitchen draw and stabbed her over 30 times. She then wrapped her body in rubbish bags and buried her off State Highway 38. Michelle’s unidentifiable body was found 15 days later, and on day 35, Gwenda pled guilty to Michelle’s murder. She stated she had killed her as she thought Michelle had stolen $20 from her wallet. She was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole of 17 years.

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Ayla tells Andi of the Dobson murder in 1886. George Dobson, his two siblings Arthur and Edward, and his parents arrived in New Zealand with the hope of a better life. In 1864. Arthur and George left for the upper Waimakariri to set out road lines, with Edward following into Otira Valley. During this time there was a £200 reward for anyone who could find a more suitable pass from Canterbury to the West Coast; George found this and called it “Arthur’s Pass” after his brother. Jump to 1866, where George was working as a roading engineer in the Grey Valley. He was due to meet with the council the following week, however did not show up. It was later found that he was mistaken for someone else and strangled to death by the Burgess gang. The murder of George Dobson was one of at least 20 violent murders and robberies by the four person gang, with one receiving life imprisonment and the rest hanged in Nelson.

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