F
OR NEARLY a week, the New
Zealand press had been reporting
on the police investigation into the
death of Natacha Hogan, 21, whose
body had been found in Auckland’s
Pigeon Park near Karangahape Road.
She had been battered to death with
rocks.
Then a shocking and significant letter
arrived at the offices of the New Zealand
Herald.
“To all you stupid f----, I’m writing to
you f----- cause those pigs do not have
a f------ clue,” the letter read. “I don’t
even think they can read. I thought they
would have caught me by now.”
The note, full of spelling mistakes and
profanities and signed with the initials“NBK” – a presumed reference to the
1994 movie Natural Born Killers – and
a badly drawn star, gloated on the death
of sex worker Natacha. “Satan is telling
me to kill all the bastards,” it said.
The letter claimed Natacha, known
to her friends as Twiggy, was the killer’s
fourth victim, though this proved to be
bravado. And it threatened that there
would be more victims to come.
“It seemed like it had a feel of being
genuine,” said the newspaper reporter
who first saw the letter. “I rang the
guy in charge of the case and he sent
someone straight away to pick it up
because it said stuff the killer would
know.”
Six days earlier, in the early hours of
October 19th, 1996, Hayden Poulter,
35, out of his mind on a cocktail of
alcohol, cannabis and LSD, wandered
in and out of bars along Karangahape
Road “looking for a bitch to kill.”
He met Natacha, who had been plying
her trade that night, at about 5 a.m.
and offered her $60 for oral sex. The
streets were busy, full of supporters still
celebrating the All Blacks’ victory inthe first rugby league test against Great
Britain at Auckland’s Ericsson Stadium.
Natacha agreed to Poulter’s terms
and suggested they use his car, a Toyota
Corolla, parked nearby. Poulter told hisvictim he preferred the park and, as
they walked into the cemetery next to it,
Poulter removed his heavy Jack Daniel’s
belt buckle.
He first struck Natacha six times on
the side of the head with the buckle,
splitting it, and then began strangling
her. “The bitch wouldn’t die,” he told
police later. Poulter then struck her with
an 24 lb rock, raped her and slammed
a 72 lb rock down on her head to finish
her off.
After he had killed and mutilated
Natacha, Poulter grabbed her purse and
ran off. He drove his car west across
the Waitakere Regional Park along PihaNew Zealand was horriied by the crimes of sex-killing mutilator
Hayden Poulter in the mid-90s. With good reason...
Case report by
DonalD Carne“There’s A Voice In My Head Called Hell – And It Tells Me To Kill” Murder Most Foul 53“THere’S a VoICe
In MY HeaD CalleD
HELL – anD IT TellS
Me To KIll”
Hayden Poulter- he murdered
three people in
october 1996.
Background,
Karangahape
road, auckland
He irst struck Natacha
on the side of the head
with the heavy Jack
Daniel’s belt buckle,
then he struck her
with a rock and
raped her