Report: Police Seek Woman In New Zealand Death Metal Murder Case
April 21, 2011, 13 years ago
According to Stuff.co.nz, the identity of the killer in Wellington’s gruesome death-metal murder case remains a mystery, despite an alleged confession from a man who is now dead.
Police are yet to close the Matthew Hall case – which they say hinges on finding an unidentified woman who spent Valentine’s Day evening with the man who reportedly confessed.
The man, Timothy Parlane, was heard in his bedroom at his Petone home with the woman around 11pm the night before Hall was murdered.
Hall, 35, the lead singer in Wellington death-metal group Backyard Burial, was stabbed to death while asleep at his Broderick Rd home in Johnsonville on February 15.
Police have called Parlane a "person of interest" in the case and are now trying to pinpoint his movements in the hours and days before the murder.
He was hit and killed by a train on March 4, before police had finished questioning him. Parlane allegedly confessed to the murder to a female friend before his death.
The officer in charge of the investigation, Detective Senior Sergeant Dave Thornton, said police had made inquiries into what the friend had told them, but more work was needed on the case.
He was adamant Parlane was not the only "person of interest" to detectives.
Read more at Stuff.co.nz.
