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Beyond the Darklands is a New Zealand true crime television series that airs on TVNZ's TV One. It is narrated and presented by clinical psychologist Nigel Latta, with each episode focusing on a certain criminal. The show has run for five seasons. Inspiration for the series came from Latta's 2003 book Into the Darklands: Unveiling the Predators Among Us, which dealt with Latta's work as a forensic psychologist. An Australian series of the same name based on the New Zealand show has been running since 2009. The TVNZ series was previously shown in Australia on the ci channel on Foxtel.
2011
Nigel Latta takes a look at the life of Paul Joseph Dally. The man who abducted and killed 13-year-old Karla Cardno.
The life of Gavin Hawthorn, one of New Zealand's deadliest drink drivers.
Nigel Latta looks at the life of George Baker, who beat 17-year-old Liam Ashley to death in the back of a prison van.
Nigel Latta looks at the life of Joseph Reekers who murdered Auckland hairdresser Marie Jamieson in 2001.
Shannon Flewellen is serving a life sentence for the brutal killing of Korean backpacker Jae Hyeon Kim.
Forensic psychologist Nigel Latta explores the mind and motivations of Steven Williams who brutally beat his six-year-old stepdaughter, Coral Burrows, to death in 2003.
2012
The man charged with killing deaf woman Emma Agnew, allegedly told his girlfriend he raped and killed her, did not regret it and would do it again.
Nigel investigates the life of Brad Callaghan. A young, successful engineer who, seemingly out of the blue, beat the mother of his child, Carmen Thomas, to death, then proceeded to dismember her body.
Dean Wickliffe is a repeat offender who has twice-escaped from a maximum security prison. Nigel asks why punishment hasn't deterred Wickliffe from a life of crime, and what could.
Nigel Latta looks at the life of Cyndi Fairburn, who killed her ex-partner by colliding with another car while he clung to her car bonnet.
Nigel Latta looks at two brothers, Ron Mark and Tui Mark, whose lives turned out very differently.
Nigel Latta looks at the death of 3 year-old Nia Glassie.
Nigel Latta looks at the life of convicted murderer and paedophile Peter Holdem. Nigel tries to understand Holdem and other sexual abusers, and examines if they are ever redeemable.
Nigel investigates the life of Jason Somerville, an illiterate loner and necrophiliac, who murdered two women and hid their bodies under the floorboards of his home.
Nigel Latta looks at how normal people cope when faced with a real life nightmare - losing a loved one through a violent crime.
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2009
When six-year-old Coral Burrows went missing on September 9, 2003, the nation stopped. For 10 days, people flocked to Featherston from all around New Zealand to search for the little girl who had failed to return from school. The truth, when it was revealed, was dreadful. Coral had been bludgeoned to death by one of the few people she should have been able to trust, her stepfather Steven Williams. He then stuffed her in a sack and threw her in a clump of toi toi. Williams blamed his brutality on the drug P, claiming he’d spent the three nights before Coral’s disappearance continuously smoking methamphetamine. However, as Beyond the Darklands reveals, the reality is far more complicated and sinister than that.
Bernard McGrath was born in Christchurch and entered the Australasian Catholic Order of St John of God as an eighteen year-old. In Sydney he underwent religious training and qualified as a teacher. In 1974 Brother McGrath returned to New Zealand to teach at the Order’s school for special needs boys, Marylands School, in Christchurch. However soon after he began working at Marylands, he started sexually abusing the boys in his care. Clinical Psychologist Nigel Latta examines why Brother Bernard McGrath started abusing children, how he managed to silence his victims for, and how he continued to abuse for over two decades.
How could a seventeen year-old boy execute two defenseless men in cold blood? In March 2002 Ese Faleali’i robbed the Pizza Delivery Company in Pakuranga in Auckland. Marcus Doig’s boss had already handed over the night’s takings when, for no apparent reason Faleali’i shot Marcus in the back of the head. A week later Faleali’i held up an ASB Bank. Teller John Vaughan obeyed all Faleali’i’s demands, when without warning or provocation Faleali’i leaned over the counter and shot John in the head.
Not only did he kill two people, he spent almost his entire life persecuting those around him. But he would only ever pick on people smaller than him. Tauranga 24-year-old Natasha Hayden and toddler Aaliyah Morrissey were two such people. Curran strangled Natasha in 2005. Then, when he was on bail for killing her, he murdered his neighbour’s neighbour’s two-year-old, Aaliyah Morrissey. Beyond the Darklands’ forensic psychologist Nigel Latta has worked with criminals for 18 years and describes Curran as one of the worst bullies he has come across.
The murder of Reporoa farmer Beverley Bouma in 1998 shocked New Zealand. It was the first time the idea of “home invasion” seeped into the public consciousness. Suddenly no one was safe in their own homes – and everyone was asking: what sort of criminal would terrorize innocent victims and murder a defenseless woman in cold blood? Beyond the Darklands clinical psychologist Nigel Latta probes the background of Poumako. It’s the story of someone who wanted to be a “big man”.
When Graeme Burton killed Karl Kuchenbecker in the hills above Wainuiomata there was a national outcry; Burton had been released from prison on parole for another murder just a few months before. Clinical Psychologist Nigel Latta explores Burton’s development as he began to exhibit psychotic behaviour, which eventually led to murder. In Beyond the Darklands, Clinical Psychologist Nigel Latta explores Burton’s development as he began to exhibit psychotic behaviour, which eventually led to murder. Burton was just twenty-one when he stabbed Paul Anderson to death in May 1992 in Wellington. His prison term was marked by violence and drug abuse but after 2002, when he was first eligible for parole, Burton’s record was clean and in 2006 the Parole Board released him.
2008
Bell was convicted of the murders of three people while on parole in 2001.
In 1987, Mikus raped and murdered six-year-old Teresa Cormack in Napier. This episode examines Mikus's own traumatic background at the hands of his father, who was also convicted of rape and accused of sex offences against young girls.
This episode deals with Paul Bailey, a multiple sex offender who abducted, raped, and murdered 15-year-old Kylie Smith in Owaka, South Otago in 1991.
Notorious international drugs smuggler, Clark (a.k.a. "Mr Asia") was convicted in 1981 of murdering his former business partner, Martyn Johnstone.
A repeat sexual offender, Hotene was jailed for the rape and murder of journalist Kylie Jones while on parole in 2001.
2010