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.
Takes on a docu-drama feel as the listener realises there is no intent to make any genuine attempt to answer the questions and inconsistencies it poses.
2018-12-16
What’s the point?
I got to the end and wondered what this podcast was trying to achieve. A poorly researched look at one of New Zealand’s most well-known murders? It’s just a lot of chatting with damaged people. How did his podcast help them or progress our understanding of the case?