The Wrongful Conviction That Divided New Zealand

True Crime Conversations · May 17, 2023 · 1h 9m

The murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in June 1970 were labelled the death of innocence in New Zealand, and would go on to become one of the country’s most infamous cold cases. In the immediate aftermath, a man named Arthur Allan Thomas was found guilty of the crime. His fate sealed by a piece of evidence so compelling that a jury had no doubt he was the killer. A piece of evidence that years later would be revealed to have been planted. Thomas was granted a royal pardon after serving nine years in prison. But the question of who really killed Harvey and Jeannette Crewe remains to this…