Chasing Ghosts
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Chasing Ghosts
Chasing Ghosts is a NZ Herald true crime series, looking at some of the most notable cases from our past. In the new season, The Puppeteer, David Fisher re-investigates the case of a serial catfisher he exposed in 2011, after discovering there is more to the story. In the original Chasing Ghosts, An...
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25 episodes
NZH Presents - Rainbow Warrior: A Forgotten History
40 years ago, two bombs went off in Auckland's harbour when French agents targeted a Greenpeace ship. It was meant to be a warning against anti-nuclea...
Episode 5: Unmasking The Puppeteer
For the first time in 13 years, David Fisher sits down with Natalia Burgess to talk about her catfishing. While he gains new insight into her life, ho...
Episode 4: Understanding Natalia
Warning: This episode contains discussion around suicide.
In 2011, after outing her for her catfishing, David Fisher sat down with Natalia Burge...
Episode 3: Mothers and Daughters
While Natalia is best known for catfishing teen boys and young men into relationships, she has also used the photos she has stolen to trick at least t...
Episode 2: Sorry's Just A Word
In 2022, David Fisher receives an email from Crystal Jenner, a New Zealand woman living in Australia. She has approached him as her last hope after si...
Episode 1: The Death of Laura West
In December 2010, the announcement on Facebook that Laura Jane West has died in a car crash devastates her online friends, and has ramifications in re...
Coming Soon: Chasing Ghosts - The Puppeteer
Season of Chasing Ghosts - The Puppeteer - begins October 1st.
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NZH Presents - Accused: The Polkinghorne Trial
On Easter Monday 2021, Paulina Hanna was found dead at the Remuera home she shared with her husband of 30 years, Philip Polkinghorne.
For 16 mon...
Episode Four: The Saga of Silver Ring
Elizabeth Fraser's testimony at the coronial hearing into Donald's death sparks huge interest in Christchurch - but can she be blamed for his death? A...
Episode Three: The Widow and the Mistress
The spotlight falls on Elizabeth Fraser as the investigation continues, but who was she and why would she want to kill her own husband? And who was th...
Episode Two: The Murder Commission
When Fraser's body is discovered, the murder investigation begins, but as Christchurch police struggle to find his killer, outsiders are brought in -...
Episode One: The Death of Donald Fraser
On November 16th, 1933, Donald Fraser was shot dead in his bed at the Racecourse Hotel. But who was the controversial publican, and why would anyone w...
Trailer - Murder at the Racecourse Hotel
The new series of Chasing Ghosts premieres November 4th. New episodes every Saturday in November
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Part Two: Waiting for Answers
In the years after Goy's death, an extended police investigation and multiple coronial inquiries looked into the circumstances of her death and the ac...
Part One: The Day of the Dive
In February 2015, Goy Thongsi went on a diving expedition in Christchurch with four men she hardly knew. Within a few hours of setting out onto the wa...
Chasing Ghosts - Below the Surface: Coming Soon
Listen to Part One February 18th, and Part Two February 25th.
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Episode Three: Ripple effect
The lives of the three families at the centre of the case remain intertwined. And a new bid to overturn Scott Watson's conviction is reviving memories...
Episode Two: The case against Scott Watson
Two decades on, two key questions continue to spark fierce debate: Was Scott Watson the mystery man? And were Ben and Olivia dropped at his boat, or a...
Episode One: 1/1/98
What happened in the early hours of January 1, 1998? We revisit the scene of the crime on the boat where the prosecution successfully argued Scott Wat...
Episode Six: Bring Her Home
A quarter of a century has failed to dull the pain of Amber-Lee’s disappearance for her family. Can you help their desperate search for closure? WARNI...
Episode Five: Persons Of Interest
It didn’t take long for police to focus on a small group of suspects. At the time, one name attracted particular attention. In this episode he breaks...
Episode Four: Sensing Nothing
After Nicola Cruickshank put her faith in the “psychic detectives” of TV show Sensing Murder, she became fixated on one man. WARNING: This podcast con...
Episode Three: Little Girl Lost
With a history of drugs and crime, Nicola Cruickshank has had her critics. She decides to face the flak head-on, hoping to put the focus back on the h...
Episode Two: Not In That Lake
Amber-Lee went missing near a large body of water. It was the obvious place to start the search. But police soon started to wonder whether something m...
Episode One: 17/10/92
Full of optimism about a new life, Nicola Cruickshank and her family spent an idyllic spring Saturday with friends. Then tragedy struck. WARNING: This...