EPITAPH: SERIES II. THE FIRST WHITE WOMAN ? / GUILTY OF LOVE

Year: 1999
Reference: F41221
Media type: Moving image

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Year: 1999
Reference: F41221
Media type: Moving image

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Series: EPITAPH
Place of production: New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories: Television
Duration: 0:23:11
Broadcast Date: 21/04/1999
Production company: GREENSTONE PIICTURES
Credits: Presenter: Paul Gittins
The First White Woman?’ Director: John Milligan
‘Guilty Fo Love’ Director: Sean Rundle
Producer: John Harris
Production Assistant: Kim Willis
Director: Kim Willis
Associate Producer: Philippa Mossman
Production Assistant: Emily Cockett
Production Assistant: Denene Marten
Production Co-Ordinator: Mandy Harris
Location Manager: Jared Connon
Director of Photography: Michael O'Connor
Camera Assistant: Jed Wardley
Online Editor: Alex Wilson
Offline Editor: Christine Munro
Sound: Andrew Ennever
Sound Mix: Terry Murphy
Art Director: Sam Storey
Writers: John Milligan
Writers: Bill Payne
Writers: Sean Rundle
Researcher: Trevor Conn
Researcher: Pamela Gillespie
Researcher: Sean Rundle
Archivist: Bridgid Davis

“The First White Woman?”
Hannah Letheridge King’s grave says she was the first white woman born in New Zealand, but Paul discovers you can’t always believe what you read on a headstone.

“Guilty of Love”
Freddie Foster was hanged in 1955, for the infamous milk bar murder in Queen Street Auckland. There’s no doubt he had been stalking his ex-girlfriend, Sharon Skiffington, but was it a cold blooded killing , or a publicity stunt gone wrong?

Darrell Skiffington: Sharon’s Brother
Anna Hoffmann: witness
retired Chief Superintendent Frank Gordon
Martyn Finlay (QC): Foster’s Defence Council
Peggy Finlay
Alec Grundy: Foster’s boyhood neighbour