The Marlborough Sounds hold one of New Zealand’s biggest mysteries: what happened to Ben Smart and Olivia Hope in the early hours of new year’s day 1998? Scott Watson, was behind bars for two counts of murder. He was convicted, even though no bodies were ever recovered, there was no crime scene and no murder weapon. Watson always proclaimed his innocence. Twenty years after that fateful morning, the mystery man might have been identified, as the final piece in this haunting puzzle. Or was it?

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