Update: the Crewe Murders
The New Zealand Herald reports that Rochelle will not give up looking for her parents’ murderer. She is disappointed to say the least in Prime Minister John Key’s refusal to launch an independent inquiry into the unsolved murders of her parents, Jeanette and Harvey Crewe, in 1970.
“The body of Mrs Crewe, 30, was recovered from the Waikato River in August 1970, her jaw badly broken. Her 28-year-old husband was found in the river a month later, weighed down by an axle. Both had been shot. After three months, the police were under huge pressure to solve the crime, and quickly found two pieces of evidence to implicate Mr Thomas, who lived on a farm 13km from the Crewes.”
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