Qualla: Raurimu Massacre https://qualla.com/raurimu-massacre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Raurimu Massacre https://qualla.com/raurimu-massacre Raurimu Massacre: Introduction https://qualla.com/raurimu-massacre/ Raurimu barely exists on most maps. A scattering of holiday lodges and a few permanent homes tucked into the bush-clad hills south of Lake Taupo, it is the kind of place people come to disappear into the quiet of the central North Island. On 8 February 1997, that quiet was shattered when a 24-year-old man named Stephen Anderson walked through a family lodge with a single-shot shotgun and killed six people, wounding four others. The massacre remains one of the five deadliest mass shootings in New Zealand's history, and the questions it raised about mental health care, firearms licensing, and community safety still resonate.

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/c/h/9/raurimu-massacre-wp/rch9-raurimu-massacre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Raurimu Massacre: A Morning of Violence https://qualla.com/raurimu-massacre/ Anderson had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia two years earlier, but he had stopped taking his prescribed medication and was a regular cannabis user. He was under the care of the Capital & Coast District Health Board's community mental health team, yet the system meant ...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/c/h/9/raurimu-massacre-wp/rch9-raurimu-massacre-aftermath-and-reckoning.mp3 0:06 4 full Raurimu Massacre: A Place That Remembers https://qualla.com/raurimu-massacre/ Raurimu itself remains what it was before that February morning: a small, quiet settlement in the volcanic heartland of the North Island, surrounded by native bush and the rugged terrain of the central plateau. The Raurimu Spiral, a marvel of railway engineering that climbs 122 m...

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