David Bain at the time of the murders.
 | James McNeish comments in his book: “My book is the story of a trial and an investigation of why the murders occurred. As far as I know The Mask of Sanity is the first psychological study of a convicted killer written in New Zealand. I became interested in the case after I read in the newspaper that young Stephen had to fight with an older brother for his life – as it seemed. By then David Bain had been arrested. It didn’t make sense. I got churned up inside – I remember what I was like as a kid at Stephen’s age. I decided to attend the trial in Dunedin and subsquently covered it for a British newspaper. At the end of the 3-week trial nobody, least of all the jury, had any idea why the murders had occurred. Normally in a murder case the mechanics are clear at the outset – you know what happened, who did it and (usually) why. Here both the “who” and the “why” were a mystery. And the reason we didn’t know “who” was because we had no idea of “why”. I decided to find out why – the motive. That’s why I wrote the book. |
http://www.crime.co.nz/c-files.aspx?ID=88
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain_family_murders
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