The Lundy Family Murders: An Impossible Crime | #433
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | I'm Anna. I'm Saruti. And welcome to red-handed, down under. Kind of. I can't remember if we decided that we could say that or not? I think yes. I think it counts. |
| 0:21.3 | Well, what definitely triple counts is that we came across this case was I was in the pub. |
| 0:26.7 | Yes. |
| 0:27.3 | As usual. |
| 0:28.2 | And a listener, I cannot remember her name. |
| 0:32.0 | And I feel awful. |
| 0:33.2 | But it began with an S, I'm almost sure. |
| 0:35.2 | Good enough. |
| 0:36.0 | And she was talking about how the show has helped her after moving here from New Zealand and feeling really lonely, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. |
| 0:43.6 | And then on her table were some other Kiwis. |
| 0:46.4 | And I do what I always do when I meet New Zealanders. |
| 0:48.9 | And I'm like, do you think David Bain did it? |
| 0:51.2 | And the reaction is either straight onto a really interesting conversation or how |
| 0:56.7 | the fuck do you know about David Bain. Anyway, then they said, oh, and the Lundy 3-Hundee. And I was like, |
| 1:03.9 | I don't know what that is. And now it's now. Yeah. So here it is. So what is the Lundy 300? |
| 1:10.5 | I'll tell you when we get to it. |
| 1:11.7 | Okay, right. |
| 1:12.6 | I'm ready. |
| 1:14.6 | Today, we are taking you to the lush rolling green hills of New Zealand, |
| 1:19.6 | somewhere that you're more likely to associate with hobbits than homicide. |
| 1:23.5 | But behind the tidy suburban streets of Palmerston North in August 2000, a dark story was |
| 1:30.3 | waiting to unfold. Mark and Christine Lundy's modest home on Caramere Avenue was just like |
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