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| 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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  • Aug 16, 2024 · 24 min

    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #9
    Sep 29, 2019 · 29 min

    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #8
    Jun 29, 2018 · 1 hr

    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #7
    Jun 28, 2018 · 50 min

    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #6
    Jun 27, 2018 · 47 min

    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #5
    Jun 26, 2018 · 42 min

    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? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #4
    Jun 25, 2018 · 46 min

    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #3
    Jun 24, 2018 · 39 min

    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? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #2
    Jun 24, 2018 · 42 min

    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”? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • #1
    Jun 24, 2018 · 31 min

    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Jun 22, 2018 · 3 min

    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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