School teacher Jennifer Beard disappeared on New Zealand's West Coast while hitchhiking on New Year's Eve 1969. Nearly three weeks later her body was found unde...
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: The Polkinghorne Trial on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, or in The Front Page podcast feed.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Update episode: A missed opportunity
We reveal how police were told about the rumours Reg Wildbore’s own wife had said he committed the murder - and what happened next.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Special Update Episode: I Need To Speak To Mitten
More people come forward with new evidence about Reg Wildbore, and his comments about speaking to lead detective Emmett Mitten.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Episode 9: Suspicion
In the final episode of The 50 Year Secret we talk to Reg Wildbore's old boss about why he always believed Reg was guilty of murder, and ask police about the challenges of getting new information in one of New Zealand's oldest unsolved murder cases.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Episode 8: A Bad Feeling
The last person to ever see Jennifer alive recalls the moment she saw the British tourist climbing into the car of the man who's believed to have killed her. We retrace the route Jennifer took in her last hour alive.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
School teacher Jennifer Beard disappeared on New Zealand's West Coast while hitchhiking on New Year's Eve 1969. Nearly three weeks later her body was found under a bridge outside the tiny township of Haast. Now a Herald investigation has uncovered new evidence that could identify her killer.
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