AA Thomas

Okay, so a job comes into work and they are looking for footage of the Harvey Crewe murders that happened in Purakewa, and I'm like, I remember when that happened, I remember it being on the news, I remember the footage on the news.

So I start doing the research and all of a sudden the dates are coming up. The re-trial was in 1973 and I was 3 years old so the murders must have happened even earlier - and they did, they are like 1971 or something and so, I am suddenly confused. Why do I remember murders that happened before I was one year old. Then a workmate says "What are you working on?" and I'm "the Harvey Crewe murders" and she's "Oh, that movie, remember that movie that we had to see at school?" and all of a sudden, I'm seeing what's happening. It's the movie I remember - I remember the movie and I think I remember the movie because, it was the first time something that happened in New Zealand was good enough to be made into a movie, well, that's what I'm thinking in my head when I was like eight when the movie came out. So I realise what I'm remembering is the movie.