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A doctor from Starship Children’s Hospital is questioned on all the big mysteries in the case including that Lachie was found face up, had no water in his lungs and had no external injuries.You can se...
· 48 min 42 sec
As the line-up of experts continues, we go on a crash course on the inner workings of the Gore sewerage ponds, and we hear yet another opinion on whether Lachie could have made it all the way out ther...
· 36 min 11 sec
In today’s episode, The Depot, three months after giving evidence in the first phase of the inquest, Michelle Officer presents a new sworn statement that changes her account of her movements at t...
· 26 min 26 sec
Robin Bates, lawyer for the police, goes into full Crown prosecutor mode, as he tries to dent the findings, methodology and conclusion in former forensic detective Karen Smith’s report.Sign up to DELV...
· 54 min 32 sec
Robin Bates, the lawyer representing the police, goes head to head with former forensic detective Karen Smith.Sign up to DELVE+ to get early access to new episodes and receive exclusive bonus mat...
· 43 min 1 sec
In today’s episode, Staged As An Accident, Karen Smith details timelines, distances, witness statements and the 111 call, and explains how she reached her conclusion that Lachie’s death was staged to...
· 28 min 30 sec
Karen Smith lays out the system failures, biases and exactly what went wrong with the investigation into Lachie’s death - and questions why the NZ police are so obstinate in this case.Sign up to DELVE...
· 32 min 55 sec
A forensic pathologist and a retired forensic detective, both Americans, give evidence in the Invercargill courtroom and fiercely defend their views – one emphatic Lachie drowned, the other who says h...
· 35 min 3 sec
The controversy steps up a notch when a Wellington based forensic pathologist enters the frame and is intractable on Lachie’s cause of death. Sign up to DELVE+ to get early access to ne...
· 39 min 26 sec
Speculation and hypothetical scenarios are thrown around the courtroom, as the absence of a forensic autopsy limits options.Sign up to DELVE+ to get early access to new episodes and receive exclu...
· 36 min 58 sec
Dr Martin Sage, the man who says he could have and should have done the forensic autopsy on Lachie, takes the stand. He gives a rare window into the reality of forensic autopsies and we find out what...
· 36 min 14 sec
Melanie Reid and her team make their way south for the second phase of the inquest, and on the first day a police dog expert is asked that if Lachie walked out to the ponds, why did the police dog not...
· 25 min 13 sec
Following a tip-off, Melanie Reid heads south and gets the Facebook messages, the phone and the explosive interview.The Boy in the Water is now part of our new investigative podcast channel, DELVE.&nb...
· 26 min 9 sec
US-based Andrea Zaferes, who has investigated thousands of ‘body found in water’ cases, tells Melanie Reid what stacks up and what doesn’t when investigating suspected drownings. You can also wat...
· 33 min 27 sec
On the last day of phase one of the inquest, Detective Inspector Stu Harvey is cross examined about witness statements that weren’t taken, the reliability of eyewitness identifications, and any lesson...
· 51 min 41 sec
The final witness to appear for this first phase of the inquest is the man who was in charge of the reinvestigation into Lachie’s death, Detective Inspector Stu Harvey.Sign up to DELVE+ here for...
· 45 min 46 sec
The police dog handler who found Lachie with his dog Gee gives his evidence in closed court.Sign up to DELVE+ here for Android and Spotify listeners to get early access to new episodes and receiv...
· 29 min 13 sec
Bill Little, who’s been in the job for more than 30 years, sets the record straight about process, protocol and who is responsible for what. Sign up to DELVE+ here for Android and Spotify li...
· 39 min 19 sec
The pathologist who conducted the post mortem on Lachie tells the inquest they didn’t even have the right equipment to do pediatric autopsies in Southland. Sign up to DELVE+ here for Android...
· 57 min 53 sec
A former police officer who worked under Senior Sergeant Cynthia Fairley refutes her assertion that he was in charge of the investigation into Lachie’s death.Sign up to DELVE+ here for Android an...
· 54 min 21 sec