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Casefile True Crime

Case 16: Chris & Cru Kahui

Casefile True Crime

Casefile Presents

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.741.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2016

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Cru Kahui were twins, aged just three months old when they died in hospital, both suffering from traumatic brain injury. Their death was the result o a severe impact, either from direct blows or being hit, thrown or slammed against a hard surface.

Violent shaking was another possible cause, and couldn’t be ruled out. What was clear was that the twins' injuries weren’t accidental…

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Chris and Kruka who he were twins aged just three months old when they died in hospital,

0:49.1

both suffering from traumatic brain injury. Their death was a result of severe impact,

0:54.7

either from direct blows or being hit, thrown or slammed against the hard surface.

1:01.3

Violent shaking was another possible cause and couldn't be ruled out.

1:06.7

What was clear was that the twins injuries weren't accidental. Their death was a result of

1:11.6

somebody using deliberate force against them. It was determined the injuries were most likely

1:16.5

inflicted at the same time by the same person. The twins had been murdered.

1:21.1

So who was responsible?

1:39.1

Christopher Kuhui and Kruka Kuhui were born at the National Women's Hospital Auckland, New Zealand,

1:45.3

on the 20th of March 2006. The twins were later transferred to Middlemore Hospital.

1:52.4

Their mother was Maxine a king, 29 years old, and their father was Kruka Kuhui, 21 years old.

1:59.7

They had one other child together already, Shane Kuhui, who was 13 months of age at the time.

2:07.8

Kruka and Maxine's relationship was informal and brief, but it had led to the birth of three

2:12.2

children in just over a year. I'll be it, the twins birth was unplanned, unexpected and unwanted.

2:22.0

Both Kruka and Maxine were raised in abusive households, filled with alcohol-fueled violence.

2:27.9

Maxine is mother left after being badly beaten by Maxine's father one night. She went to hospital

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