PremiumPatrons at the Red Fox Tavern in Maramarua, northern Waikato. Publican Chris Bush was murdered when two men burst in and shot him dead in 1987. Photo / NZH
A Supreme Court ruling this week meant James Henry Wilson could finally be unmasked as one of the accused men – ultimately acquitted - in one of New Zealand’s most infamous murders that remains a mystery. Two masked men entered the Red Fox Tavern on Labour Weekend in 1987, one
Herald archives, evidence gathered in the police investigation, as well as interviews with key detectives who worked on the cold case over four decades.







