New Zealand Probes What May Be First South Pole Murder
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Evidence of what police believe could be the first recorded murder at the South Pole was heard at an inquest in New Zealand yesterday. Rodney Marks, 32, an astrophysicist who died in 2000 at the Scott-Amundsen polar research station, may have been poisoned, police said.
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