Sounds Like Murder: The Scott Watson case (Part 1)

The disappearance of Olivia Hope and Ben Smart from a party on New Year's Eve, 1997, sparked one of New Zealand's biggest and most controversial police investigations. Their bodies were never found, but detectives believe they found the killer: Scott Watson. In part one of this two-part series, Eugene Bingham and Adam Dudding examine the critical evidence – hairs from a tiger-print blanket, hotly disputed eyewitness accounts, and the hunt for a mysterious missing ketch.If you value this kind of storytelling and want to help us keep making it, you can become a Long Story Short supporter at LSSpodcast.com. You’ll get early, ad-free access to episodes, and we’ve got some subscriber-only bonus content in the pipeline as well. You can also sign up to our free newsletter so you’ll hear from us each time a new story drops. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.