The Lundy Family Murders: An Impossible Crime | #433

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In 2000, Christine Lundy and her seven-year-old daughter Amber were brutally hacked to death in their New Zealand home. Their husband and father, Mark Lundy, had a seemingly watertight alibi: he was over 90 miles away.

But that didn’t stop the New Zealand courts from convicting him. Twice.

With a controversial case built on junk science, shifting timelines, and a microscopic speck of what prosecutors called ‘brain tissue’ (but might have just been lunch), the Lundy saga was New Zealand’s answer to Making a Murderer.

Was an innocent man wrongfully convicted? Or did the police catch a killer who thought he’d pulled off the perfect crime?

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