July 8, 2010. New Zealand. Scott Guy was fatally shot at the gates of his family farm on July 8th, 2010. Months later his brother-in-law Ewen Macdonald was arrested and charged with murder. The trial that followed revealed growing tensions between the two men, disagreements over farm management, and Ewen’s shocking criminal record.

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