was broken into and food was taken. On 20 October, parties of police were positioned around his home, expecting Graham to return to the Growcott farm. In the middle of the night, after being spotted by two police constables and a local civilian carrying his rifle and ammunition belts, an injured Graham was shot by Auckland Constable James D'Arcy Quirke with a .303 rifle from a distance of 25 metres as he crawled through a patch of scrub. After being shot, he was surrounded by almost a hundred police and army personnel, reportedly telling one of them that he "could have shot some more". He died the following morning at approximately 5:25 a.m. at Westland Hospital, Hokitika, the same hospital where Constable Best had succumbed to his injuries. He was buried at Hokitika Cemetery. Constable Quirke reported that Graham told him he was intending to give up that night. Later that month, the Graham property was burnt to the ground and Mrs Graham and her children left the area. In popular culture There have been several biographical accounts of his life and the murders published since the tragedies occurred. In 1968 the Australian drama series Homicide based episode 180, "Dead or Alive", on the case, with the Graham character being played by Brian Wenzel. Unlike real life, the Graham character is captured alive, with the detectives wondering at the end of the episode whether he would be found insane or sentenced to death. In 1974 Nightwood Films produced a 26-minute documentary concerning the manhunt. This film is the only audio-visual record of many of the participants' recollections. It was also the first time the large cache of photographs taken during the manhunt by Home Guardsman Dave Stevenson were made public. A 1981 British-New Zealand film, Bad Blood, was made about Stanley Graham and his chain of killings, as well as the dimensions of historical context and social injustice involved. Australian actor Jack Thompson played Graham. See also List of massacres in New Zealand References Notes Sources Andrew Brown (scriptwriter; producer); Mike Newell (director): Bad Blood (feature film; docudrama), Sydney, Hoyts, 1981. [Some sources say 1982.] Internet Movie Database, Bad Blood (1981) [details of the above film], 1990–2016. External links Stanley Graham murders at crime.co.nz 1900 births 1941 deaths Mass murder in 1941 1941 in New Zealand Deaths by firearm in New Zealand New Zealand farmers New Zealand spree killers People