S4 | Fractured Season 1 | Ep 8: Going International

The defence cross-examination of the Starship Hospital pediatrician reveals a startling discrepancy at the heart of the case. For months the police and doctors repeatedly reported the baby had 13 to 1...

3 Juni 37min

Speaking to Melanie, the couple say the police took advantage of Dan’s cooperative nature, and they describe the Crown’s medical experts as forming part of a self-supporting establishment that refuses...

2 Juni 25min

The prosecution’s key medical witness, Starship radiologist Dr Russell Metcalfe, pushes our camera outside the court. Inside the courtroom, he is unequivocal - the baby’s fractures were “almost certai...

1 Juni 1h 10min

The judge sends the jury out as lawyers argue over a controversial paper that warns of a false certainty pervading child protection units, which the authors say is leading to wrongful accusations and ...

27 Maj 44min

The Dunedin endocrinologist slams the evidence from the American experts, and tells the court he would not go to the States to get a second opinion on the bones: “We would get a local opinion from a l...

26 Maj 49min

The police video of Dan’s arrest is played to the jury. You be the judge: was this a genuine search for answers, or did they zero in on him from the beginning? Sign up to DELVE+ to get early access to...

25 Maj 45min

An eyebrow-raising plea deal lands just one week into the trial, offering Dan a way out – if he agrees, it would all be over. Jess and Dan are forced into making a huge decision: walk away now, or ris...

20 Maj 30min

With an older child born with club feet and no explanation for their second baby’s injuries, Jess is desperate to have their baby genetically tested – will she and Dan find the answers they’re searchi...

19 Maj 36min