Peter Plumley-Walker

Peter Plumley-Walker was found with his wrists and ankles bound floating below the Huka Falls. The cricket umpire had met his end after seeking the services of a teenage dominatrix.

Wallace Chalmers

Detective Inspector Wallace Chalmers was fatally shot when called to the scene of a firearms incident near Waitakere, Auckland in January 1963. Another policeman in attendance at the incident was also shot.

Augustus Edward Braithwaite

Braithwaite’s fame rests on his unrequested and unwitting role as the victim in one of the first, if not the first, murders to be solved with the assistance of fingerprint evidence. The parallels with the later use of DNA as an infallible tool in criminal justice are uncanny.