The District show

The District

Summary: The District is a seven-part podcast from the Stuff Circuit investigative team. It’s a story about injustice, but mostly it’s a story about people. People who are trying to get on with their lives, but can’t. It centres on an infamous unsolved murder case, in a rural district of New Zealand: examining the colourful characters involved and their unending search for justice, the kicks in the guts, the suspicions, and the fresh clues - could they hold the answer to New Zealand’s most notorious cold case? The District is also about another strange death; another family gripped by a sense of injustice, desperately seeking answers. The two cases end up colliding in the most unexpected way. Injustice is like a disease. There’s always a starting point, patient zero. But it never stops there.

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 Introducing: What's Wrong With You? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:38:53

New from Stuff: a podcast that tackles the big questions about life with a disability. All you wanted to know and more about sex, religion, mobility carparks - and how to fend off outrageous questions from strangers.

 Introducing: Once a Panther | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:51:19

Stuff presents Once a Panther, a major new podcast series: On June 16, 1971, a radical group of Pasifika and Māori men and women confronted state-sanctioned racism to form the Polynesian Panther Party. Like their seafaring ancestors before them, the Polynesian Panthers guided their people to a new horizon - but instead of stormy seas, they navigated a red-blooded nation raging with rugby, racism and beer. Stuff Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher RSS

 Introducing: HE'LL BE RIGHT | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:30:19

Join John Daniell and Glenn McConnell as they try to figure out what it means to be a man in New Zealand in 2021. A special taster episode from the new Stuff podcast He'll Be Right. More info - www.stuff.co.nz/hellberight

 Coming soon: Stuff's new climate-change podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:01:16

Solving the climate crisis is going to take big ideas, and we don't have time to muck around. So Stuff is launching the One Hot Minute video series, where each guest gets 60 seconds to share their big idea about climate change. And then, in the companion One Hot Minute podcast, Eloise Gibson, Stuff's climate change editor, digs deeper. In each episode, she talks to a climate-change change-maker about the big ideas from their One Hot Minute video. Launching soon! For more details see www.stuff.co.nz/onehotminute.

 Introducing: Coronavirus NZ | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58

Each day Stuff journalists Adam Dudding and Eugene Bingham take a closer look at the Covid-19 pandemic from a New Zealand perspective. Subscription links at player.whooshkaa.com/shows/coronavirus-nz. For more Coronavirus coverage see www.stuff.co.nz.

 Bonus Episode 3 - The Other Murder | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:02

The District centred around a controversial unsolved murder tracing back almost 50 years - but it turns out there was another murder in the district dating back even further. Producers Eugene Bingham and Paula Penfold discuss this intriguing case - which has spooky echoes in the Crewe murders. 9biu9iz9

 Bonus Episode 2 - The Gun | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:15

A crucial witness who emerged in The District has had a surprising change of mind about some of his recollections. Producers Eugene Bingham and Paula Penfold reveal this new twist - which centres on a gun - and discuss the implications.

 Bonus Episode 1 - The Aftermath | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:14:51

Following the release of The District, plenty of people came forward with feedback and theories. Producers Eugene Bingham and Paula Penfold discuss some of them - and reveal some new information.

 Episode Seven - The End of the Ride | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:30:53

Answers to some of the key questions are proving elusive - or is the silence telling in itself? We talk to the man who started this all off and discover he has secrets. How can any of this bring closure for the families desperately seeking justice?

 Episode Six - Old Leads, Fresh Leads | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:03

We're on the hunt for answers about one of those guns. And tensions rise as we track down a key witness. Is he the villain he's been built up as? Does he have the answers we need?

 Episode Five - More Sleeping Dogs | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:25:45

Guns, guns, and more guns. And this time, the way the police deal with yet another mystery rifle, is utterly confounding. Plus - and this is awkward - could the murderer be someone we've come to know well?

 Episode Four - The Tale of Ted Tickle | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:27:30

Accusations fly about who had connections and motive for the murders. We learn of strange omissions from the police file. We discover another mystery gun. And what does a larger-than-life character and former rodeo identity have to do with the murders?

 Episode Three - The Review | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:46

The police launch the "review to end all reviews" of their investigation. A farmer finds a gun not far from the crime scene - and he gives it to us! Could it be the murder weapon?

 Episode Two - The Brother | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:58

A secret witness, police corruption, an unsolved murder, and mysterious goings-on around Lynette's brother's death. Are they linked? And Lynette introduces us to another family fighting injustice - for almost 50 years.

 Episode One - The Sister | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:18:50

We meet Lynette Stevens who, in the process of investigating the death of her brother, finds an intriguing connection to one of New Zealand's most notorious cold case murders.

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