It’s the 20th of June 1994, and the residents of Andersons Bay, in Dunedin, are waking up to a crisp, dark morning. Ice frosts the roads and despite it being after 7 o’clock the sun is still yet to appear in the sky. 

Three police officers stand alert on the doorstep of 65 Every Street, a ramshackle house home to the six members of the Bain Family. Eleven minutes earlier, a distressed call was made to emergency services from this location…

The officers try to gain access to the house. They kick the door but it doesn’t budge. Luckily there’s a stack of firewood on the veranda, they grab a piece and use it to break the glass pane, reaching through to let themselves inside.

As they enter they see a man on the floor in the foetal position. He’s crying. And as they inch closer he starts yelling ‘They’re all dead. My family is all dead.’

What they find will haunt New Zealand and stump investigators to this day. And will become the most controversial case New Zealand has ever seen…

CREDITS

Guest: Journalist Martin Van Beynan

• Author of Black Hands: Inside the Bain Family Murders
• Host of the BLACK HANDS - A Family Mass Murder podcast

Host & Executive Producer: Gia Moylan

Audio Producers: Rhiannon Mooney & Gia Moylan

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