Newsroom’s electrifying new podcast takes you inside a small town harbouring a big mystery. After the lifeless body of three-year-old Lachie Jones is found floating in an oxidation pond in the Southland town of Gore, police rule his death a tragic accident. But nothing is what it seems. Newsroom’s investigations editor Melanie Reid has spent three years covering this case, revealing multiple flaws in the police investigation and uncovering new evidence that casts serious doubt about the circumstances surrounding Lachie’s death. In The Boy in the Water, Reid unravels the case – and the secrets – in an attempt to find out what really happened to little Lachie Jones. The Boy In The Water is coming soon to newsroom.co.nz and wherever you get your podcasts.

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Officials jump to an early and dubious conclusion when a three-year-old boy's body is found floating in a town's sewage ponds.

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The mystery surrounding the death of Lachie Jones deepens after our team sends lung tissue samples to an international forensic pathologist.

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The whole town gets drawn into the case as the local council is charged in relation to Lachie's death.

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Volatile relationships and police call-outs - what was going on leading up to Lachie’s death?

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Mysterious and tragic circumstances surround the night Lachie’s body was found.

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The twists and turns continue when we hear the police statements of Lachie’s mother, brother and a teenager who lived on the street.

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Inside the small town Gore courtroom - the disappointment, the heartache and Paul Jones tells it like it is.

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