| 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.
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16 Aug 2024
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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29 Sept 2019
Gone Fishing – One Year On
2019 update: More stories emerge, another witness recants and Gail Maney finds new allies in her fight to prove she’s innocent.
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29 Jun 2018
Part eight: Gone fishing
A key witness comes forward with new information that could vindicate Gail Maney, and the lead detective reflects on where his investigation might have gone wrong.
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28 Jun 2018
Part seven: The trials of Gail Maney
As Gail Maney and three others go on trial for murder, flaws in the prosecution case come to light.
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27 Jun 2018
Part six: The man with the black eyes
The media called him a “stone cold killer”, but the truth about Stephen Stone is a bit more complicated than that.
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26 Jun 2018
Part five: Liar, liar
Two historic murder investigations merge into one. But how can police figure out what actually happened, when their key witnesses keep changing their stories?
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25 Jun 2018
Part four: The forest
A terrified witness contacts police. Revelations about a young woman’s murder force detectives to reconsider everything they thought they knew about the Deane Fuller-Sandys case.
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24 Jun 2018
Part three: Good westie, bad westie
Gail Maney had a tough West Auckland upbringing, but she wasn’t a bad kid. Then in the 1990s she slid into a life of hard drugs, petty crime and prostitution. But does that really mean she’s a killer?
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24 Jun 2018
Part two: The fisherman
For years, Deane Fuller-Sandys was thought to have drowned while fishing at Whatipu. But did police get it right when they later decided Deane was the Larnoch Road “body in the boot”?
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24 Jun 2018
Part one: The fire
Gail Maney has served 15 years in jail for ordering the 1989 murder of young Auckland tyre-fitter Deane Fuller-Sandys. But she says she never knew him. In fact, she thinks he wasn’t even murdered.
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22 Jun 2018
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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Apple Podcasts (US)
4.5 / 5
97 ratings
Spotify
4.7 / 5
103 ratings
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