Lundy murders

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Mark Edward Lundy is a former travelling salesman who lived in Palmerston North with his wife Christine Marie Lundy, 38, and their 7-year-old daughter Amber Grace Lundy. On the morning of 29 August 2000, Mark Lundy (then aged 43) drove to Petone on business and checked in at the Foreshore Motor Lodge at around 5:00 pm. That evening, he had an encounter with a prostitute at the motel at about 11:45 pm, and she left around 12:48 am (on 30 August). He checked out at 8:09 in the morning. The murdered bodies of his wife and daughter were found about an hour later by Christine’s brother, Glenn Weggery who went to the Lundy home in Palmerston North around 9.00am. Both had been attacked with a tomahawk like implement (which was never found) leaving blood and tissue splattered on the ceiling and walls. Twenty-one hairs, presumably belonging to the attacker, were found under Christine Lundy's fingernails, but were never tested or analysed for DNA. Police initially had 60 suspects, one of whom committed...

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