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Wrongfully convicted New Zealander

Arthur Allan Thomas (born 2 January 1938)^[1] is a New Zealand man who was wrongfully convicted twice of the murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in June 1971. Thomas was raised on his parents' 272 acre farm at Mercer Ferry Road, near Pukekawa, eight miles away from the Crewe's farm.

On 22 June 1970, police received a phone call describing the Crewe's bloodstained house. When police arrived, they found the Crewe's 18 month old baby, Rochelle in a neglected state, but no dead bodies.

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Subsequently, there was considerable speculation as to whether the baby had been fed in the five days before she was found.^[2]

Mrs Crewe's body was found in the Waikato River two months later with bullet wounds to the head. Mr Crewe's body was also found in the river about a month after that. Initially, the police suspected Jeannette's father, Lenard Demler, who lived alone, had no alibi,^[3] and was labelled by on