Gone Fishing

Stuff | RNZ

| 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.

Episodes

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

Jul 11, 2024

5 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

Sep 29, 2019

31 min

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

Jun 29, 2018

1 hr

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

Jun 28, 2018

51 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

Jun 27, 2018

48 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

Jun 26, 2018

43 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

Jun 25, 2018

47 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

Jun 24, 2018

41 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

Jun 24, 2018

44 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 24, 2018

33 min