THE TRUTH HURTS
May 14, 2020
4 minutes
Words by Gail Shortland
When a mother and young daughter were hacked to death with an axe, the suspicion fell firmly on the head of the family – Mark Lundy.
Only, Mark was 180 miles away cheating on his wife.
So just how did the kitchen salesman wipe out his family in an attack so brutal that it would go down in history?
He cheated with a prostitute
The answer lay in a silent witness – a polo shirt.
The Lundy family lived in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Mark, then 43, was married to Christine, 38, and they had a daughter, Amber, seven, who was bright and outgoing.
Mark and Christine hadn’t been able
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