In this special bonus episode, we bring you Melanie Reid’s keynote speech to the annual NZ Law Society Conference in Invercargill, a candid behind-the-scenes insight into what it was really like to be at the coalface of this extraordinary case.

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Bonus episode: Pyrrhic victory

Dec 28th, 2023 20m 39s

In this special bonus episode we talk to Peter Ellis' sister, Tania, about what has happened since the Supreme Court quashed her brother’s convictions. A year on, has his family received an apology from the government for the miscarriage of jus

Episode 8: The girl who retracted

Dec 29th, 2022 25m 20s

What has life been like for the girl described as the most credible and compelling witness who then retracted and said the abuse never happened - only to be disbelieved and ignored by the same establishment? And in this heartbreaking final epis

Episode 7: The author vs everyone

Dec 29th, 2022 22m 26s

An incendiary new book on the Christchurch Civic Creche case incriminates an establishment that refuses to look at the big picture – not just the police and the investigators, but the judiciary and parliament as well. It reveals flawed processe

Episode 6: Prison

Dec 29th, 2022 31m 42s

As Peter Ellis sits in prison, developments in the case keep coming. A year after he is convicted, the star child witness retracts her testimony saying she was never abused by Ellis at all. Meanwhile a prominent conservative politician does a U

Episode 5: The trial

Dec 29th, 2022 28m 27s

It is June 1993 and the night before the verdict in a case that has consumed the nation with its far-fetched claims of satanic rituals and children being sexually abused with needles and sticks. Accused childcare worker Peter Ellis spends it wi

Episode 4: Four women arrested

Dec 29th, 2022 25m 55s

The belief that a ring of child sex abusers made up of a young gay creche worker and four women living normal suburban lives seizes the imaginations of Christchurch’s establishment. Police raid the homes of the women, trawling a backyard goldfi

Episode 3: Police and panic

Dec 29th, 2022 25m 6s

Up to five children a day are being seen at the police Child Abuse Unit, some put through multiple evidential interviews. The panic spreads through the families, and parents are ballistic with fear - a frenzy being led by therapists and police.

Episode 2: Peter Arrested

Dec 29th, 2022 24m 3s

When Detective Colin Eade and a core group of parents call an urgent meeting, the flames of fear become a bonfire – Eade is convinced Ellis is not acting alone and that at least 10 other offenders are also involved.Presented by award-winning Ne

Episode 1: Unbelievable

Dec 29th, 2022 24m 51s

In this shocking first episode, we take you into early 1990s Christchurch with its conservatism, white power gangs - and claims that satanic cults and ritual abuse might be occurring under everyone’s noses. Presented by award-winning Newsroom I

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