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The Peter Boland case: The mystery of the missing 9yo boy - and why police have opened inquiry into cold case

By Noreen Hegarty
NZ Herald·
11 mins to read


It's one of New Zealand's oldest cold cases. Now, 62 years later, police are finally investigating the disappearance of a healthy 9-year-old boy. Noreen Hegarty tells the remarkable story.

Peter Boland is not a household name in New Zealand. Yet, if what happened to the 9-year-old back in August 1957 happened to any Kiwi kid today, his name would dominate news headlines and become part of the sad roll-call of missing children.

The young Auckland boy was hundreds of kilometres

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