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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…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Gone Fishing turns a disputed conviction into a precise examination of witness changes, police records and the limits of courtroom certainty.
Gone Fishing follows Amy Maas and Adam Dudding as they reconsider Gail Maney's murder conviction and the disappearance of Deane Fuller-Sands. Its serialized reporting makes a tangled case legible without sanding down the uncertainty.
Gail Maney's storage locker is where your appetite for a tidy verdict goes to be tested.
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A tightly reported appellate update that turns witness drift and contamination claims into compelling procedural listening.
Gone Fishing returns to the Gayle Maney case through a Court of Appeal hearing in Wellington, where three judges are weighing a record full of changing witness accounts.
A restrained courtroom true crime opener that lays out the Polkinghorne murder trial step by step.
Philippa Tolley opens the second season of The Trial with a steady account of the murder trial of Philip John Polkinghorne, beginning with the death of Pauline Hanna and following the case from the first police call through the Crown's argument.
A measured courtroom mystery built from witness testimony and everyday detail.
The Trial opens with a disappearance and keeps its footing in ordinary details: fish and chips, phone calls, a missed dinner, then the courtroom account of what happened to Michael McGrath.
A follow-up that keeps the case moving through files, recollections, and the weight of earlier conclusions.
Gone Fishing - One Year On returns to the Auckland disappearance of Dean Fuller Sands, but the real interest is in what follows after a true-crime series lands: the case keeps shifting, Gail Maney keeps working through her files, and Tim McKinnell arrives as the new…
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
UFO disclosure with teeth.
Bleak news, deadpan jokes, no broadcast polish.
Australian investigations, followed from the ground up.
A retrospective series examining New Zealand's experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, featuring interviews with key decision-makers and frontline workers.
Hosts Amy Moss and Adam Dutting of Gone Fishing deliver a bonus update on Gail Maney's Court of Appeal hearing in Wellington, New Zealand, 35 years after Dean Fuller-Sands went missing.
This episode introduces the second season of The Trial, a Stuff Audio podcast hosted by Philippa Tolley, which follows the murder trial of Auckland eye surgeon Philip John Polkinghorne in real time.
A news podcast episode discussing the Lauren Dickerson murder trial verdict and its implications for mental health and the criminal justice system in New Zealand.
This is episode one of The Trial, a Stuff podcast by Michael Wright, introduced via the Gone Fishing feed.
One year after the release of the Gone Fishing podcast, hosts Adam Dudding and Amy Marse return with a catch-up episode on Gail Maney's ongoing fight to overturn her murder conviction for the 1989 death of Dean Fuller Sands.
Gone Fishing follows Gail Maney's search through a storage unit for court documents, diaries, and a prison memoir about her murder conviction.
This episode begins the story of Gail Maney, who was imprisoned for 15 years for a crime she denies, starting with her childhood and a fire incident.
This episode investigates the murder of Deane Fuller-Sandys and the conviction of Gail Maney, exploring the timeline and evidence of the case.