5 Best Investigative Podcasts New Zealand Edition 2025

1. GUILT

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*FREE Episodes Released every Monday during active seasons. Paid Brevity Subscribers get Early Release, Ad Free Listening and Bonus Episodes (Follow link below)**In this hit investigative podcast, Ryan Wolf investigates some of Australasia's most enduring unsolved criminal cases.Season FiveIn November of 2021, while the world was in lockdown. Dave Davan, a farmer in the rural far north community of Herekino found two bottles of wine in his mailbox. Assuming they were a gift he drank them, little did he know one bottle had been laced with the deadly poison Paraquat...MORE Host Ryan Wolf
Producer/Network Brevity Studios
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Location Auckland, New Zealand
Apple Rating 4.6/5Facebook 4.3KInstagram 18.9K Avg Length 42 min Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. The Deadline Report - Ben Vidgen Investigates

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The Deadline Report - Ben Vidgen Investigates. A double shot of reality.
Host Ben Charles Vidgen
Producer/Network Fresh FM
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Location New Zealand
Avg Length 29 min Get Email Contact

3. DELVE

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DELVE SERIES 7 - FRACTURED SEASON 2: In this hard-hitting second season, Melanie Reid and her team take the x-rays that were used to convict a young mother and put them before international experts. Their findings challenge the Starship doctors' original diagnosis, and ask whether there is a troubling pattern with a medical hypothesis that has led to wrongful convictions around the globe. Fractured Season Two doesn't just tell one family's story, it reveals a chilling phenomenon that could have far-reaching consequences...MORE Host Melanie Reid
Producer/Network newsroom.co.nz
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Location Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Apple Rating 4.6/5 Avg Length 31 min Get Email Contact

4. Gone Fishing

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| Winner Best Podcast NZ Radio Awards 2019 | | Winner Gold Medal  New York Festivals Radio Awards 2019 | | Winner Best Investigative Radio/Audio Series  The AIBs 2019 | Gail Maney was sent to prison on her son's birthday. The police said she'd put a hit on a man who stole drugs from her. She went to jail for 15 years. She's consistently denied having anything to do with the disappearance of Deane Fuller-Sandys. In fact, she says, she never even met him. She isn't sure he was murdered at all. She thinks he'd just … gone fishing...MORE Hosts Amy Maas, Adam Dudding
Producer/Network Stuff | RNZ
Email ****@fairfaxmedia.co.nz
Location Greater Wellington, New Zealand
Apple Rating 4.5/5Facebook 359.1KTwitter 93.9KInstagram 107.4K Avg Length 30 min Get Email Contact

5. True Crime New Zealand (NZ)

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True Crime New Zealand is a kiwi based true crime podcast. It is storytelling based with no opinion, just facts. We are trying to give the big picture of these crimes with context as well as investigating what happened subsequently and how the crime affected the wider community of NZ.www.truecrimenz.comMORE Producer/Network True Crime New Zealand
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Location New Zealand
Apple Rating 4.5/5Facebook 10KTwitter 108Instagram 564 Avg Length 30 min Get Email Contact