murder

One of three men charged with murdering 23-year-old James Ellis last year has pleaded guilty.

Police investigating the murder of a security guard at a west Auckland building site have revealed more details about the four men seen in the area when he died, including what one of them told a taxi driver as they left.

Police have charged a 31-year-old unemployed Whanganui man with the murder of veteran journalist Derek Round.

A man who flew from Brisbane to murder his estranged wife in Auckland on Valentine's Day in 2011 has been jailed for at least 17 years.

A man has been charged with the murder of Sharyn Wilkinson-Foley who was found dead in a Nelson house on Thursday.

A 21-year-old hitchhiker accused of attacking a good samaritan who offered him a place to stay for the night has been charged with murder.

Former Iraqi soldier Najeeb Dawood has pleaded guilty to murdering his wife at their Wellington home.

A 44-year-old man has been charged with murder after a body was found in a car parked in Nelson yesterday afternoon.

A man has been charged with murdering his stepfather in Sydney's south.

It seems a mystery worthy of Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's fictional Belgian detective: a lord goes missing from his chateau, leaving behind a spent cartridge and a trail of blood. His body is discovered 15 days later, buried in a forest.