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**Subscribe for early episodes and to hear every season ad-free.**SERIES 9 - DIAGNOSIS OF A CRIME: Imagine being told that what’s wrong with your child isn’t an illness or an accident, but a crime.From the team behindThe Boy in the WaterandFractured,Diagnosis of a Crimetakes you inside the lives of families torn apart by a medical diagnosis.Join us for Melanie Reid’s latest groundbreaking investigation, where medicine and law combine, and nothing is quite what it seems.SERIES 8 - THE BOY IN THE

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S7 | Fractured Season 2 | Ep 8: The Birthday Party

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2025/04/22

The last time Zita celebrated her daughter’s birthday was when she turned one. Since getting out of prison, Zita has made endless requests to be at her daughter’s sixth birthday party. Surely she will be allowed to go?Sign up to DELVE+ to get early access to new episodes and listen to all three seasons of our award-winning The Boy in the Water podcast, Season 1 of Fractured, the explosive Powder Keg and Satanic Panic: Peter Ellis, the Creche Case & Me, all ad-free. Presented by investigations

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S7 | Fractured Season 2 | Ep 7: The Norwegian...

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2025/04/15

Was the baby at the centre of this investigation put into a foster home and her mother sent to prison based on a flawed diagnosis? After reviewing all the medical files, a Norwegian brain surgeon speaks out.Sign up to DELVE+ to get early access to new episodes and listen to all three seasons of our award-winning The Boy in the Water podcast, Season 1 of Fractured, the explosive Powder Keg and Satanic Panic: Peter Ellis, the Creche Case & Me, all ad-free. Presented by investigations editor

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S7 | Fractured Season 2 | Ep 6: Face To Face

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2025/04/08

As the level of frustration with the bureaucracy reaches new heights host Melanie Reid’s patience is tested.And what chance does Zita have of getting to see her now 5 year old daughter in person?Sign up to DELVE+ to get early access to new episodes and listen to all three seasons of our award-winning The Boy in the Water podcast, Season 1 of Fractured, the explosive Powder Keg and Satanic Panic: Peter Ellis, the Creche Case & Me, all ad-free. Presented by investigations editor Melanie Reid

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S7 | Fractured Season 2 | Ep 5: Magical Thinking

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2025/04/01

In a gripping conversation with Canadian neuropathologist Dr Roland Auer, we unravel the unsettling truth behind one of medicine’s most controversial diagnoses. Why are so few experts speaking out? What if the science we've trusted is being misread, and innocent lives are paying the price?Sign up to DELVE+ to get early access to new episodes and listen to all three seasons of our award-winning The Boy in the Water podcast, Season 1 of Fractured, the explosive Powder Keg and Satanic Panic: Peter

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33:01

S7 | Fractured Season 2 | Ep 4: Can’t Be Easy

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2025/03/25

Melanie and Bonnie head to see Zita and Ravi - and are surprised Zita still has an ankle bracelet eight months after herrelease from prison. Zita, who hasn’t seen her daughter in person for more than three years, opens up about therelentless challenges she faces as she navigates the legal, medical and social welfare systems stacked against her.Sign up to DELVE+ to get early access to new episodes and listen to all three seasons of our award-winning The Boy in the Water podcast, Season 1 of

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39:20

S7 | Fractured Season 2 | Ep 3: The Voice Of The Fetus

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2025/03/18

An esteemed US obstetrician specialist upends Starship Hospital’s diagnosis of non-accidental injury when he analyses Baby K’s heart monitor tracings. He says the main injuries sustained by Baby K happened during labour and delivery - not parental abuse. You can watch the video from this episode on Newsroom.co.nzSign up to DELVE+ to get early access to new episodes and listen to all three seasons of our award-winning The Boy in the Water podcast, Season 1 of Fractured, the explosive Powder Keg and

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S7 | Fractured Season 2 | Ep 2: Fracture Or Suture

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2025/03/11

Could New Zealand’s leading children’s hospital have wrongly diagnosed Baby K’s skull fracture? In this eye-opening episode, a world-renowned biochemist and geneticist analyses the high-resolution CT scans, and his findings turn the whole case upside down.As mentioned in the episode, you can watch the video of Melanie Reid interviewing Professor Pals on Newsroom.co.nzSign up to DELVE+ to get early access to new episodes and listen to all three seasons of our award-winning The Boy in the Water

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S7 | Fractured Season 2 | Ep 1: Difficult

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2025/03/04

Step into the gripping world ofFractured, the monumental investigative podcast from award-winning investigative journalist Melanie Reid, as it returns for its second season. The truth is rarely simple. And inseason twothe shocking revelations will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about medicine, justice and the devastating power of a single diagnosis. What if a single flawed medical hypothesis has led to innocent parents being accused of unimaginable crimes? What if the

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S7 | Welcome to Season 2 of Fractured

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2025/02/20

Step into the gripping world ofFractured, the acclaimed investigative podcast from Melanie Reid, as it returns for its second season.In season 1 we uncovered the harrowing story of a controversial medical diagnosis from a New Zealand hospital, and the devastating chain of events that followed.A baby taken. A mother jailed. A family torn apart. And a couple facing deportation without their daughter.Crushed under the immense pressure of government departments working in unison, this is the story of

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S7 | Fractured Season 2 | Bonus Episode: The Syndrome

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2025/02/10

We’ll be launching season 2 of Fractured soon, but before we do, we are going to play you some extracts from a US documentary called The Syndrome. It’s a film that challenges the scientific validity of Shaken Baby syndrome and highlights the impact of wrongful convictions on families, featuring a group of doctors who consider the diagnosis to be junk science. It also reveals the history and politics behind Shaken Baby Syndrome in the US, drawing parallels with the discredited Satanic ritual abuse

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S7 | Fractured Season 2 | Bonus Episode: The Uplift

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2025/01/29

As we prepare for season two ofFractured, we are publishing this special bonus episode. In 2019, Melanie Reid and the Newsroom team released a groundbreaking video investigation that exposed the practice of newborns being taken directly from hospital birthing units in New Zealand. As with ourFracturedseries, we questioned the policies, practices and actions of our state agencies. This story sparked four inquiries into Oranga Tamariki and an urgent Waitangi Tribunal hearing. Now, for the first time,

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S6 | Ep 9: Satanic Panic: Peter Ellis, the Creche...

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2025/01/03

In this special bonus episode, we talk to Peter Ellis’ sister, Tania, about what has happened since the Supreme Court quashed her brother’s convictions. Has his family received an apology from the government for the miscarriage of justice? And what about Peter’s four women co-workers whose lives were turned upside down for decades when they were also charged with child abuse and then discharged in the early 1990s?To watch the video version of this episode,click here, and to read the most recent

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S6 | Ep 8: Satanic Panic: Peter Ellis, the Creche...

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2025/01/03

In this shocking final episode, the girl who retracted speaks out for the first time, and bittersweet justice at last. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S6 | Ep 7: Satanic Panic: Peter Ellis, the Creche...

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2025/01/03

Abook blows the case wide open andreveals the power and politics behind the case. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S6 | Ep 6: Satanic Panic: Peter Ellis, the Creche...

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2025/01/03

The top cop at the centre of the case admits to multiple affairs with complainant mothers and a social worker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S6 | Ep 5: Satanic Panic: Peter Ellis, the Creche...

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2025/01/03

An up close and personal look at what remains one of New Zealand’s most notorious High Court trials. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S6 | Ep 4: Satanic Panic: Peter Ellis, the Creche...

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2025/01/03

Police raid the suburban homes of four women creche workers, convinced they are part of an organised child abuse ring. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S6 | Ep 3: Satanic Panic: Peter Ellis, the Creche...

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2025/01/03

Panic spreads through the families - a frenzybeing led bytherapists and police. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S6 | Ep 2: Satanic Panic: Peter Ellis, the Creche...

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2025/01/03

Police are convinced Ellis is not acting alone, and the fear and paranoia go through the roof. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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S6 | Ep 1: Satanic Panic: Peter Ellis, the Creche...

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2025/01/03

In early 1990s Christchurch a young gay childcare worker faces bizarre accusations of child abuse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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