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Remains could be gang member or missing taxman

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Remains could be gang member or missing taxman

NZPA
April 21, 2010, 10:17 am

It could be up to two weeks before DNA tests that may identify skeletal human remains found near Te Urewera National Park in the Bay of Plenty are complete.

There has been speculation that the remains could be those of a tax investigator who disappeared in 1956, or the victim of a 1982 gang murder.

Detective Sergeant John Wilson, of Rotorua CIB, told NZPA today that it was unlikely to be the body of 18-year-old Mona Blades, who disappeared while hitch-hiking from Hamilton to Hastings on May 31, 1975.

The body was found during the weekend in a recently logged plantation forest at Matera, about 10km southeast of Murupara, and Mr Wilson said it was thought to be decades old.

There were some fragments of fabric found with the body which was recovered yesterday when a scene examination was completed.

Mr Wilson said the circumstances in which the remains were found made it unlikely the death was natural.

He said that the remains were likely to be those of Hemi Tapson, murdered 28 years ago by a rival gang member, or tax investigator Pat Fisk, who disappeared in more than 50 years ago.

Police had contacted the families of both men.

The remains have been taken to Auckland for a post mortem examination and ESR will attempt to extract DNA to identify the body.

Murupara gang member Tamiana Tamiana, 38, was found guilty in 1997 of murdering Mr Tapson, having confessed 14 years after the killing.

Mr Wilson said Tamiana helped police try to find Mr Tapson's body where he and others had buried it, but it had not been found.

Mr Fisk's widow, Maureen Thomas, 86, said yesterday that she would never give up hope of finding out what had happened to him. The family believed he was murdered after uncovering a scam, she said.

An Inland Revenue inquiry officer based in Tauranga, 37-year-old Pat Fisk went on a routine assignment to the remote Murupara forestry area on December 5, 1956, and never returned.

His departmental car, a 1954 blue-grey Vauxhall, was found undamaged in a clearing off the road bordering the rugged Ureweras.

The area known as "The Summit" -- the top of the pass between Te Whaiti and Ruatahuna -- was the sort of peaceful spot he habitually stopped at for lunch on his travels.

The sandwiches his wife packed for him were open on the seat, and on the floor of the car was a Thermos and a cup three-quarters filled with tea.

Work files were scattered over the back and front seats. The driver's door was open and the petrol tank half full, but the keys were missing. There was no sign of a struggle.

The last known sighting and conversation with him was about midday on December 5 at the Pekepeke Quarry in the forest near Murupara.

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Pat Fisk?  see http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10413602&pnum=0


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