Out of the Dark

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Title

Out of the Dark

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NZ On Screen

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NZ On Screen

Description

This documentary follows the police investigation that lead to the capture and imprisonment of South Auckland rapist Joseph Thompson. He was the first serial rapist convicted in New Zealand. Using re-enactments and in depth interviews with police, the Keith Hunter-directed doco examines how the relatively new technology of DNA matching and criminal profiling led to the arrest of Thompson in 1995. Viewers are not spared details of his long-lasting and brutal rampage which targeted girls as you...

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Video

Date created

1996

URL

https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/out-of-the-dark-1996

Related subjects

joseph thompson / police interview / crime / rape / semen / forensic science / senior constable alf filipaina / reuben riki / elizabeth farrell / detective inspector john manning / sue vintiner / constable rachael hanna / detective sergeant dave henwood / detective russell lamb / tony kake / crime scene / blood / hospital / examination bed / dr teuila percival / starship hospital / dr selina green / south auckland help foundation / criminal profiling / “crime international” / david cantor / detective senior sergeant brett simpson / marauder rapist / power reassurance rapist / frank van der zwaag / fingerprints / detective constable gerry whitley / detective senior sergeant peter mitford-burgess / detective sergeant richard middleton / surveillance / constable richard ayers / detective mata john / nz on air / new zealand on air

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