Taranaki accomplices Mark Goodwin and Jan Yorke planned to murder two people in one night – only to discover that one of the women they thought they’d killed had risen from the dead. This is the story of that woman, Barbara Bishop.
Listen to the full episode from the new podcast series The Lip by journalist Megan McChesney.
Read more about the podcast series here.
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