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227: Cold Case: The Crewe Murders | New Zealand

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 23 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In the quiet rural town of Pukekawa, New Zealand, tragedy struck in the winter of 1970, marking the beginning of one of the country's most infamous and enduring murder mysteries. Harvey and Jeannette Crewe, a young farming couple, were brutally murdered in their home, their lives cut short in circumstances that remain shrouded in mystery and controversy. Decades later, their deaths still resonate, casting a long shadow over the small community and raising questions about justice, truth, and the very fabric of New Zealand's judicial system.

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Resources
Book
The Crewe Murders – Inside New Zealand’s Most Infamous Cold Case
Documentary
The Project NZ - Who killed Jeanette and Harvey Crewe?
Life Sentence – The Crewe Murders
Web
Wikipedia
Articles
The Crewe Murders: New evidence in book on New Zealand’s most infamous cold case
Shock new twist in Crewe murders cold case: was top cop Bruce Hutton a killer?
A Moment In Crime podcast: The Crewe murders, New Zealand's most infamous cold case
The Crewe Murders book extract: Ross Eyre, the witness who never spoke reveals evidence dormant for decades

Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe
Narrated by Noel Vinson
Music: “Nordic Medieval” by Marcus Bressler
Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios

This True Crime Podcast was researched using open-source or archive materials.

Transcript

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0:31.9

On a rainy winter's night in June 1970, Harvey and Jeanettewe settled into their usual evening routine in their

0:39.4

Pukikawa farmhouse. After putting their 18-month-old daughter, Rochelle, to bed, the young

0:44.8

couple sat down to a simple dinner of flounder, potatoes, and peas. Farm paperwork and mail were

0:50.1

spread across the dining table as they ate, discussing the day's events. Later, they moved to the

0:55.8

warmth of their living room where a fire crackled in the hearth. Harvey, 28, took his usual armchair,

1:02.4

a stack of New Zealand Herald newspapers on the table beside him. Jeanette, 30, curled up on the

1:08.1

sofa to his left, picking up her knitting, a sweater she was making for her husband.

1:13.1

Neither could have known that these ordinary, peaceful moments would be their last.

1:18.6

As Rochelle slept soundly in her cot just meters away, an intruder was about to transform their quiet farmhouse into the scene of one of New Zealand's most

1:27.8

enduring murder mysteries, a crime that would remain unsolved for over half a century.

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