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Cash for convictions: Police offer more than $1.65 million in rewards

Anna Leask
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Senior Journalist - crime and justice·NZ Herald·
14 mins to read

Police have offered more than $1.65 million in reward money since 1999 in a bid to solve some of the country's most enduring cold-case crimes.

But barely any cases have been solved as a result, and only a handful of people have made any money by coming forward.

In the last 20 years there have been 34 cases - mostly murders - where police have offered a cash reward as an incentive for people to come forward with information that

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