Amanda Gillies
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first heard Apr 2026
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Thank you to Rory Fallon.
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This episode was produced by Gwen McClure and engineered by William Saunders.
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I'm Amanda Gillies.
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Mā te wā.
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Police have called him Pure Evil and New Zealand's Charles Manson.
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For years he was the unnamed man lurking in the background of one of the country's most infamous murder cases.
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Now James Henry Wilson can finally be identified.
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Hi, I'm Amanda Gillies, and today on The Detail, we examine the life and crimes of James Henry Wilson, the convicted killer at the centre of one of New Zealand's biggest whodunit murders.
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In 1987, publican Chris Bush was found shot dead in his Red Fox tavern, but it took some 34 years to find James Wilson guilty of pulling the trigger.
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Yet even after his conviction, his identity remained a secret.
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That finally changed last week with the overturning of his conviction by the Supreme Court.
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Today I sit down with Stuff senior journalist Tony Wall, who has long investigated James Wilson and spoken to the family of his victims and the police who have dealt with him.
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But first, my colleague and producer of the detail, Alexia Russell.
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She was a rookie police reporter in Auckland when Chris Bush was killed in his tavern and outlines for us what happened back on that night in 1987.
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You were a rookie police reporter back then.
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How
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How big was the story?
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And not just for Auckland, but New Zealand.
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In 2017, 30 years after the killing, a breakthrough.
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Police arrested and charged two men, one of them James Wilson and the other Mark Hoggart.
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