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BLACK HANDS - A family mass murder

Jul 23, 201701:43News & Politics

Coming soon from Stuff: A groundbreaking new podcast series on the most controversial murders in New Zealand history - the killing of five members of the Bain family in 1994.

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In 2012 Canadian judge Justice Binnie said David Bain was innocent on the balance of probabilities. Why?...

1. House of horrors

Jul 23, 2017 - 33:59

It's June 20, 1994. Police are called to a rundown home in Dunedin, New Zealand. They're not sure what to...

2. Mrs Bain, the Diary and the Devil

Jul 23, 2017 - 42:52

By any standard, this family was unusual, even bizarre. Mother Margaret Bain's complicated spiritual life...

3. A family's final days

Jul 23, 2017 - 38:08

From the outside, the Bain family seemed to have settled into a new life in Dunedin. Eldest son David was...

4. "The bastard killed his family"

Jul 23, 2017 - 35:34

The shootings appalled the country and deeply shocked the community and wider Bain family. Yet sole survi...

5. Incest, blackmail, murder

Jul 23, 2017 - 39:23

Motive has always been the most puzzling aspect of the Bain shootings. Neither Robin nor David seemed lik...

6. Bloodied fingerprints, broken glasses

Jul 23, 2017 - 33:35

Although police initially regarded the shootings as a murder/suicide, evidence began to mount against Dav...

7. The case against Robin

Jul 23, 2017 - 30:48

Could Robin have murdered his children and then taken his own life? Robin had blood and bruising on his h...