Chasing Ghosts
Chasing Ghosts is a NZ Herald true crime series, looking at some of the most notable cases from our past. In the new season, The Puppeteer, David Fisher re-investigates the case of a serial catfisher he exposed in 2011, after discovering there is more to the story. In the original Chasing Ghosts, Anna Leask looks into the disappearance of Amber-Lee Cruickshank, one of New Zealand's most baffling missing person investigations. Murder in the Sounds explores the ongoing debate about the disappearances of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope, and the arrest of Scott Watson. Below the Surface unpacks the multiple investigations in the death of Goy Thongsi. Murder at the Racecourse Hotel takes us back in time to look at one of New Zealand's oldest cold cases, that has gone unsolved for nearly a century.
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Listen to Part One February 18th, and Part Two February 25th.
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In February 2015, Goy Thongsi went on a diving expedition in Christchurch with four men she hardly knew. Within a few hours of setting out onto the waters of Motunau, Goy was dead and missing, and a cloud of suspicion surrounded her diving companions.
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In the years after Goy's death, an extended police investigation and multiple coronial inquiries looked into the circumstances of her death and the actions of the men on board the boat to try and determine what happened. Eight years on, are Goy's friends and family any closer to the answers they want?
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The new series of Chasing Ghosts premieres November 4th. New episodes every Saturday in November
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On November 16th, 1933, Donald Fraser was shot dead in his bed at the Racecourse Hotel. But who was the controversial publican, and why would anyone want to kill him?
Host: Ric Stevens
Audio Editor: Alastair Boyes
Producers: Ethan Sills and Elizabeth Binning
Open Justice is funded through the Public Interest Journalism Fund through NZ on Air.
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When Fraser's body is discovered, the murder investigation begins, but as Christchurch police struggle to find his killer, outsiders are brought in - and the suspect list starts to contract.
Host: Ric Stevens
Audio Editor: Alastair Boyes
Producers: Ethan Sills and Elizabeth Binning
Open Justice is funded through the Public Interest Journalism Fund through NZ on Air.
If you know more about this case, you can get in to...
The spotlight falls on Elizabeth Fraser as the investigation continues, but who was she and why would she want to kill her own husband? And who was the mistress that came between this marriage?
Host: Ric Stevens
Audio Editor: Alastair Boyes
Producers: Ethan Sills and Elizabeth Binning
Open Justice is funded through the Public Interest Journalism Fund through NZ on Air.
If you know more about this case, you can get in ...
Elizabeth Fraser's testimony at the coronial hearing into Donald's death sparks huge interest in Christchurch - but can she be blamed for his death? And how does the success of Donald's horse tie into his murder?
Host: Ric Stevens
Audio Editor: Alastair Boyes
Producers: Ethan Sills and Elizabeth Binning
Open Justice is funded through the Public Interest Journalism Fund through NZ on Air.
If you know more about this ca...
On Easter Monday 2021, Paulina Hanna was found dead at the Remuera home she shared with her husband of 30 years, Philip Polkinghorne.
For 16 months, her death was treated as “unexplained”. That’s until it emerged Polkinghorne had been charged with murder. He pleaded not guilty in August 2022.
From the team behind The Front Page, the New Zealand Herald's daily news podcast, comes Accused: The Polkinghorne Trial.
Listen to Accused: T...
Season of Chasing Ghosts - The Puppeteer - begins October 1st.
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In December 2010, the announcement on Facebook that Laura Jane West has died in a car crash devastates her online friends, and has ramifications in real life for those linked to her and her sisters.
Four months later, Herald on Sunday journalist David Fisher investigates a serial catfisher targeting teen boys in Christchurch.
In his reporting, David would link these two stories together as he uncovered the extent to which the catf...
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