
Sensing Murder (2006)
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Rhonda Byrne — Executive Producer
Episodes 17
The Patient Killer
In 1976, thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Tracey Ann Patient was plucked off Auckland's Great North Road. The following morning, her body was found dumped 16 km away in the Waitakere Ranges, having been strangled with a pantyhose tourniquet. Deb Webber and Sue Nicholson investigate.
Read MoreCruel Intent
The psychics investigate the unsolved kidnapping of Sharon Wills and Nicola Lynas, and kidnapping/murder of Karmein Chan.
Read MoreWalk of Innocence
In 1970, eighteen-year-old Olive Waiker disappeared as she walked across Rotorua to babysit her nieces and nephews. Her semi-naked body was found hours later in a rest area south of the city, having been bashed to death so feircly that her skull had smashed into seven pieces. Deb Webber and Adelle Dishcombe investigate.
Read MoreLost Soul
In 1985, 25-year-old Luana 'La Verne' Williams disappeared from her Tauranga home. Eight years later her disappearance was upgraged to a murder enquiry. Her body has never been found. Sue Nicholson, Scott Russell Hill, and Kelvin Cruickshank invesitgate.
Read MoreA Bump In The Night
In 1980, six-year-old Alicia O'Reilly was raped and murdered in her bed, while her sister slept less than a metre away, and her mother sleeping across the hallway. Kelvin Cruickshank and Deb Webber investigate.
Read MoreA Mother's Instinct - Lorraine Wilson and Wendy Evans
Australian case, unsolved double murder of Lorraine Wilson and Wendy Evans
Read MoreFallen Angel - Angela Blackmoore
In this episode of Sensing Murder we learn about the murder of Angela Blackmoore, a 21 year old woman with a 2 year old child. Divorced (or separated) from the father of her child she lives with her new partner in Christchurch. When her partner returns home from working late on the night of the 17th of August 1995, he finds Angela murdered in the kitchen of their home. She had been stabbed 39 times. The child was not harmed and the killer has not been found.
Read MoreThe Scarlet Letter - Elizabeth Barnard
Australian case, unsolved murder of Elizabeth Barnard
Read MoreBlood Money - George Engelbrecht
Psychics Kelvin Cruickshank (NZ) and Deb Webber (Aus) investigate the unsolved murder of Lower Hutt pensioner 91 year old George Engelbrecht. In 1979, a burglar broke into George's home and beat the old man to death in his bed.
Read MoreThe Last Train Home - Sarah MacDiarmid
Scott Russell Hill & Debbie Malone try to solve the mystery surrounding the disappearance of 23 year old Sarah MacDiarmid from Kananook train station on 11 July 1990.
Read MoreAlmost Perfect - Elmer Crawford
Almost Perfect revisits one of Australias most baffling family murders - the case of Elmer Crawford. He appeared to be an average family man, but then in 1970, he murdered his pregnant wife and three children, with no apparent motive. He electrocuted them then sent them over a cliff in the family car. Unbeknownst to Elmer, the car hit a small ledge and hung on above the crashing waves. It endured the stormy night hanging on the cliff edge with only a few centimetres of limestone stopping it from falling into the sea, and it was discovered the next morning by 2 tourists. A Coronial inquest was held in 1971, which found Elmer responsible for the deaths of his family. Despite numerous reported sightings over the past three decades, Elmer has never been caught. Psychics Deb Webber and Barbara Neilson re-investigate the crime and trace his movements since.
Read MoreThe Last Goodbye
The disappearance of a 14-year-old girl in the early 1980s, whose body was eventually found - along with five others - in the Australian Outback, but whose killer was never brought to justice
Read MoreLooking For Justice - Lesley Calvert
This week, for the first time ever, the prime suspect in a murder enquiry has turned to Sensing Murder for help.
Since 1977, farmer Lindsay Calvert has had to endure local suspicion that he murdered his wife Lesley, who was missing for seven months before her body turned up in an area that had already been searched.
Although the coroner ruled that Lesley died from 'unknown causes', and the police thought she had probably committed suicide, Calvert is still convinced that his wife was murdered.
Calvert is adamant that he adored his wife. "It was everything I ever dreamed a relationship would be," he says. "We were soul mates - and she was a fantastic mum."
Soon after Lesley's disappearance, some local people started to speculate on his possible involvement in the crime, and disturbing things began happening in the Calvert household.
"We had a house cow shot. We had four sheep shot up here by the stock yard - gut shot at that, which is very cruel," Calvert explains. "My kids had two pet goats, they both disappeared."
His daughter, Sandra Calvert also remembers the unsettling occurrences.
"We'd go down to our grandparents for dinner and we'd come back and things had been moved in the house. Things had been pulled out of the hot water cupboard - it was scary."
Now, frustrated by the years of suspicion, Calvert wants the psychics to clear his name and unmask the real killer.
Psychics Webber and Cruickshank travel into the heart of Taranaki King Country in search of answers about Lesley's mysterious death.
Read MoreStone Cold - Brendan Percy
In 2004 Brendan Percy was found dead of hypothermia and dehydration in a sub alpine area above Oamaru in suspicious circumstances. Psychics Kelvin Cruickshank and Sue Nicholson go to new heights to uncover the truth about Brendan's death.
Read MoreSeeking Siegfried - Siegfried Newman
Katikati man Siegfried Newman disappeared on February 25, 2008, after he had dropped his sons Thomas, 9, and Oliver, 7, at Pahoia School. Police carried out a three-day search but found no sign of him. At the time, police said Mr Newman was known to be suffering depression over the loss of his wife Vicki, who had died a few months earlier of cancer.
Read MoreLie Of The Land - Jason Dark
Sue Nicholson and Deb Webber investigate one of the most complex and intriguing cases ever featured - did Waikato man Jason Dark commit suicide, or was he murdered, as his family believe?
Read MoreWhere's Granddad? - Allan Woodford
65 year old Alan Gordon Woodford, of Bedford St, Mossburn left his home on foot Saturday morning April 20, 1985 and was never seen or heard of again.
Weeks of searching by police, family members and volunteers, taking in all rivers in the area and a shoulder-to-shoulder search of the Takitimu mountains, found nothing.
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