In the early hours of June 20, 1994, police in Dunedin, New Zealand received a chilling emergency call from 22-year-old David Bain.
“They’re dead, they’re all dead,” a distraught David wept to the operator.
The university student and part-time paper delivery boy had just returned from his morning shift to his family home on 65 Every Street, Andersons Bay.
Inside the old, creaking house lay the bodies of David’s entire family – patriarch Robin, 58, his wife Margaret, 50, Arawa, 19, Laniet, 18, and 14-year-old Stephen. Every one of them had been violently murdered, seemingly shot to death.
When police arrived at the scene, they discovered evidence of a struggle involving the Bain’s youngest son, Stephen, who had been strangled as well as shot. A message was found typed on…
