Gone Fishing
Gone Fishing is an eight-part investigative podcast series from Stuff and RNZ. It examines the case of Gail Maney, who was imprisoned for 15 years for her alleged involvement in the disappearance of Deane Fuller-Sandys. Journalists Amy Maas and Adam Dudding investigate the evidence, exposing flaws in the police timeline and raising questions about police conduct. The series won multiple awards including Best Podcast at the NZ Radio Awards.
Episodes
Trailer: Quarantine Nation
A lethal virus. A drastic lockdown. A nation turned upside down.
From the makers of acclaimed podcasts The Commune, True Story and Witi Underwater, this eight-part narrative series revisits the Covid-19 pandemic with the benefit of hindsight and powerful interviews. Adam Dudding and Eugene Bingham delve into what really happened – and what it taught us about ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Ada
