New Zealand police investigate how a man hid his 3 children in a forest for years without discovery

On Tuesday, a day after Tom Phillips was shot dead by the police and his children — now aged 9, 10 and 12 — were recovered from the wilderness existence they had inhabited since December 2021, the story didn’t have a simple ending, officials said.

For a moment, I thought the kids helped shoot their dad

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