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Who killed Jane Furlong? · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: You know, when I saw this request come through to
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  take a deep dive into the Jane for a long case,
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  it really hit me how much this case has stuck
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  with people. You know, it's been years, decades even, but
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  it still feels so present for a lot of us
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  here in New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one of those cases that just gets under
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  your skin. A young woman, a mother, vanishes without a trace,
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  and for years there's nothing, no answers, no closure.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the city itself just swallowed her up and
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  we're left trying to piece together what happened on that
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  night back in ninety three on Korenga Hapey Road. Everyone
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  knows ky Road and everyone seems to have a story
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  about it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's part of what makes this case so fascinating,
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  so frustrating. K Road was Jane's world, it was her life,
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  but it was also a place where secrets thrived, right and.
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  Speaker 1: Those secrets there like shadows, making it even harder to
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  make sense of what happened to Jane. So where do
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  we even begin with a case like this? I mean
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  we're talking about a disappearance, a potential homicide, and a
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  whole lot of unanswered questions.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have to start with Jane. Who was she
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  Beyond the headlines and the whispers. She was a young
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  woman with a passion for poetry. She dreamed of becoming
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  a child psychologist. Imagine that it's hard.
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  Speaker 1: To reconcile those dreams, those aspirations, with the reality of
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  her life on K Road. She was young, only seventeen,
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  and she'd.
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  Speaker 2: Already faced more than her fair share of hardship, a
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  tough upbringing, time and foster care. And then she became
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  a mother herself.
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  Speaker 1: To Aiden, it's important we remember him in all of this.
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  He was just a baby when his mom disappeared. Can
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  you imagine?
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  Speaker 2: It's unimaginable, and it speaks to the tragedy of this case,
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  the ripple effects that touch so many lives.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And then there's Danny Norsworthy, Jane's boyfriend at the time,
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  Aidan's father. He was the last person to see her alive.
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  Speaker 2: He dropped her off on K Road that night, said
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  he'd check on her later like he always did, only
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  this time she was gone.
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  Speaker 1: And from there the story gets even more complicated. The police,
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  the investigation, the rumors. It's also tangled up and.
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  Speaker 2: At the center of it all is Jane, a young
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  woman trying to find her way, trying to make a
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  life for herself and her son. It's a story we
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  hear far too often.
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  Speaker 1: It's a story that deserves our attention, our empathy, and
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  most importantly, our commitment to uncovering the truth.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it wasn't just the usual k road shadows
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  we were dealing with. Jane was set to testify in court,
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  and not against just anyone, right.
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Cally, a name that still sends chills down your spine.
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  Speaker 2: He was facing some serious charges assault, violence against women,
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  the works, and Jane she was going to be a
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  key witness.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about dangerous connections. You can't tell me the police
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  didn't think twice about Colley's potential involvement, of course not.
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  Speaker 2: He was one of the first persons of interest, and
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  the timing well, it was definitely suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: But suspicions aren't convictions, are they, And from what I understand,
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  that could never quite pin anything concrete on him exactly.
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  Speaker 2: They had their theories, their suspicions, but without solid evidence,
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  it was all just speculation.
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  Speaker 1: And speculation can be a dangerous game, especially in a
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  case like this. It's easy to get caught.
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  Speaker 2: Up in the way the maybe's you're right, But we
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  also can't ignore the other threads in this story, the
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  other players who might have had their own motives.
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  Speaker 1: There was that whole thing with the crossbow incident.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't there right? And the rumors about unpaid debts. We
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  can't forget about those. And then there was that chilling
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  account of Jane being followed by two men just the
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  day before she disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: It's like everyone around Jane had secrets, and those secrets
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  just seem to multiply with each passing year.
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  Speaker 2: It makes you wonder what was really going on in
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  those final days and weeks of Jane's life.
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  Speaker 1: It's a question that haunted her family for nineteen long years,
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  nineteen years of not knowing, of clinging to hope while
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  grappling with the possibility that they might never find out
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  what happened.
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  Speaker 2: And through it all you have Judith, Jane's mother, tirelessly
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  searching for answers, refusing to let her daughter's memory fade away.
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  Speaker 1: She was relentless, a force of nature, she was.
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  Speaker 2: And then, just when it seemed like the trail had
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  gone cold.
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  Speaker 1: A discovery twelve, a woman walking her dog on a
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  remote beach stumbles upon skeletal remains.
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  Speaker 2: DNA testing later confirmed what everyone had feared. The remains
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  were Jane's.
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  Speaker 1: After all those years, the missing person case became a
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  homicide investigation. But would it be enough to finally bring
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  Jane's killer to justice? You know, I always think with
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  these cold cases, there's this idea that finding the remains
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  will be the answer, you know, like that's the missing piece, right, Like.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna unlock some hidden clue, some piece of evidence
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  that changes everything exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not always like that, is it?
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  Speaker 2: Sadly? No, Sometimes it just confirms what we already knew
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  deep down, and sometimes it just raises more questions.
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  Speaker 1: And in Jane's case, did it ever feel like the
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  investigation gained any real momentum? Even after the discovery.
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  Speaker 2: There were moments, for sure, new leads, old suspects re examined.
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  They even brought Danny Norsworthy back in for questioning. Remember
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  he was always a person of interest, right.
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  Speaker 1: He always maintained his innocence, but still the shadow of suspicion.
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  It never really went away, did it. No?
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  Speaker 2: It lingered, especially since he'd initially refused to cooperate with
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  the police after Jane's disappearance.
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  Speaker 1: So what happened when they brought him back in. Did
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  he shed any light on things?
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to say for sure. The details of those
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  later interviews were never made public. They cited the ongoing
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  investigation the potential to jeopardize a future trial.
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  Speaker 1: A trial that sadly never happened. Didn't Danny pass away
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  a few years back.
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  Speaker 2: He did in twenty twenty two, and with him it
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  felt like any secrets he might have been holding they
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  died with him.
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  Speaker 1: It's just tragic, isn't it. This young woman, a mother,
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  her life cut short, her son left to grow up
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  without her, and the person responsible still out there somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: It's a hard truth about cases like this. Sometimes, despite
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  everyone's best efforts, the answers just evade us. The evidence fades,
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  memories get hazy, and the trail.
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  Speaker 1: Runs gold, and we're left with this sense of unfinished business.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, But that doesn't mean we stop searching, stop asking questions.
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  Someone out there knows what happened to Jane for a.
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  Speaker 1: Long someone holds the key to unlocking this mystery, to
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  finally bringing some peace to her family, to her son.
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  And if you're out there listening, if you have any information,
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  no matter how small or insignificant it may seem.
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  Speaker 2: Please come forward. Your voice, your story could be the
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  missing piece that brings Jane's story to a close.
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  Speaker 1: That's all it takes sometimes, isn't it one voice, one
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  memory to help right a wrong that's been left unanswered
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  for far too long. Let's hope, for Jane's sake and
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  for her family, that that voice is heard.