Season two of The Boy in the Water: The Reinvestigation

On an unusually hot night in January 2019, a little boy’s lifeless body was found face up in a small town’s sewage oxidation pond.
To the police, it was an open and shut case: three-year-old Lachlan Jones had run away from his home in the Southland town of Gore, climbed a fence to the ponds, fallen in and drowned.
Case closed, no suspicious circumstances.
But for Lachie’s father, Paul Jones, and his supporters, his son’s death left more questions than answers.
Could he have walked that far? Would he have headed to the sewage ponds? Why do none of the witness sightings times match? And how is it possible for a small boy to have no marks on his bare feet after traversing 1.2 kilometres over rough terrain?
Season one of Newsroom’s chart-topping investigative podcast, The Boy in the Water, explored these questions in an attempt to unravel the case.
Now season two takes listeners right inside the courtroom throughout the five-week coronial inquest into the little boy’s death.
Melanie Reid and her team have travelled to Invercargill to follow each day’s events and hear the voices of the key people involved in this case as they give evidence.
Listen to each episode as it is uploaded.
Both seasons of The Boy In The Water are available on Newsroom, Apple, Spotify and wherever you listen to your podcasts.