| Winner Best Podcast – NZ Radio Awards 2019 | | Winner Gold Medal – New York Festivals Radio Awards 2019 | | Winner Best Investigative Radio/Audio Series – The AIBs 2019 | Gail Maney was sent to prison on her son’s birthday. The police said she’d put a hit on a man who stole drugs from her. She went to jail for 15 years. She’s consistently denied having anything to do with the disappearance of Deane Fuller-Sandys. In fact, she says, she never even met him. She isn't sure he was murdered at all. She thinks he’d just … gone fishing. In this eight-part series, Amy Maas and Adam Dudding investigate the case against Maney. They unravel the conflicting and shifting accounts of key witnesses. They expose major flaws in the police timeline. And they raise disturbing questions about police conduct in the case.
It ain't over until it's over
Miscarriage of justice? Twenty five years after being found guilty of murder, a new attempt by Gail Maney to clear her name looks promising.
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8/16/2024 • 24 minutes, 8 seconds
Introducing: The Trial - Philip Polkinghorne
On Easter Monday 2021, police were called to the home of a successful professional couple in the affluent Auckland suburb of Remuera. They found the body of Pauline Hanna.
In his emergency call, her husband, Philip Polkinghorne, said she killed herself. Sixteen months later he was charged with her murder. As this podcast is released, he's currently on trial at the High Court in Auckland.
Stuff's groundbreaking series returns to take you inside the Polkinghorne trial: Hear the witnesses, follow the evidence, wait for the verdict.
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8/2/2024 • 28 minutes, 53 seconds
Something big...
Season two of Stuff's multi-award winning podcast The Trial is coming very soon.
Police are called to the multi-million dollar home of a successful couple to find the body of Pauline Hanna, also known as Pauline Polkinghorne. A year and a half later, eye surgeon Philip John Polkinghorne is charged with murdering his wife, a charge he denies.
The Trial, season two, available soon wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to Stuff Extra on Apple or Spotify to be the first to hear new episodes.
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7/31/2024 • 1 minute, 3 seconds
Bonus - Gone Fishing case breakthrough
There has been a major development in the case of one of New Zealand’s hugely popular true crime podcasts - Gone Fishing produced by Stuff and RNZ.
The crown has admitted there was a miscarriage of justice in the trials that saw Gail Maney and Stephen Stone convicted of the murder of Deane Fuller-Sandys.
Maney and Stone were convicted in 1999 of killing the West Auckland tyre fitter, but the Crown now says there were grave problems with the evidence heard in two trials, in 1999 and the year 2000.
The case will go to the Court of Appeal next month.
Private investigator Tim McKinnel, who was involved in the podcast Gone Fishing, talked to Newsable about the case and the influence of the podcast Gone Fishing
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7/11/2024 • 5 minutes
Newsable: The implications of the Lauren Dickason trial
Introducing Newsable: Stuff's daily news podcast all about what everyone’s talking about!
The Lauren Dickason trial highlighted some issues we don’t discuss much in New Zealand - the mental health of mothers, for example.
Today, Kristina Grace, founder of the Mothers Helpers support group, urges people to be kinder to mums who might need help. And law expert Professor Chris Gallavin tackles the legal fallout - including whether current justice rules are fit for purpose.
For more information about Mothers Helpers, click here.
WARNING: This podcast covers issues that may be distressing for some, including mental health. For free help, text or call 1737, 24 hours.
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8/21/2023 • 16 minutes, 46 seconds
Introducing Newsable - Why The Trial podcast faces legal challenges
Introducing Newsable: Stuff's daily news podcast about what everyone’s talking about!
Today, something for the true crime fans - behind the scenes of the legal challenge to Stuff's podcast The Trial, which is about the murder trial of David Benbow.
If you like what you hear, search for Newsable in your podcast player, or follow us on Instagram and Tiktok @newsablenz
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6/15/2023 • 20 minutes, 44 seconds
Introducing: The Trial - The disappearance of Michael McGrath
Listen to the first episode of Stuff’s major new podcast, The Trial. In May 2017, 49-year-old builder Michael McGrath disappeared, almost without trace. No crime scene was ever found. No weapon was ever found. No body was ever found. So how could his longtime friend be arrested and charged with murder?
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3/29/2023 • 35 minutes, 15 seconds
Gone Fishing - Trailer
Gail Maney was sent to prison on her son’s birthday.
The police said she’d put a hit on a man who stole drugs from her. She went to jail for 15 years.
She’s consistently denied having anything to do with the disappearance of Deane Fuller-Sandys. In fact, she says, she never even met him. She doesn’t think he was murdered at all. She thinks he’d just … gone fishing.
In this series, Amy Maas and Adam Dudding investigate the case against Maney. They unravel the conflicting and shifting accounts of key witnesses. They expose major flaws in the police timeline. And they raise disturbing questions about police conduct in the case.
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