ATC Plus *Preview*: What happened to 3-year-old Lachie Jones?
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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This is a preview of a full-lenth bonus episode for Australian True Crime Plus subscribers. To listen to all of our bonus episodes, plus early and ad-free access to every episode of the podcast, you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts.
In 2019, three-year-old New Zealand boy Lachie Jones was found dead in an oxygenation pond near his home, with police ruling it an accidental drowning.
His father, unconvinced by the official finding, sought the help of investigative journalists Melanie Reid and Bonnie Sumner, hosts of Delve: The Boy in the Water.
In this subscriber-only episode of Australian True Crime, they share insights from the long-awaited inquest inside the Coroners Court.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a preview of a full-length bonus episode available for subscribers of Australian True Crime Plus. |
| 0:06.7 | Subscribers get access to all of our bonus episodes, as well as early and add free access to every episode of the podcast. |
| 0:18.7 | On a warm evening in 2019, three-year-old New Zealand boy Lockheed Jones was found deceased in an oxygenation pond, about a kilometre from his house. |
| 0:28.9 | Local police quickly declared it an accidental drowning, but the boy's father was unconvinced and remained so. |
| 0:36.4 | He pursued the help of seasoned investigative journalists Melanie Reid and Bonnie Sumner. |
| 0:41.5 | The show is called Delve, the Boy in the Water, and in the most recent season, they took us, |
| 0:47.2 | their listeners, inside the coroner's court for a long-awaited inquest. |
| 0:51.8 | Melanie Reid and Bonnie Sumner join us on this special |
| 0:54.3 | subscriber-only episode of Australian True Crime to talk about the case. |
| 0:59.0 | This is Australian True Crime. We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which |
| 1:03.7 | this podcast is created, the Wurundri Woi Warang people of the Koolin Nation. |
| 1:09.4 | And a warning, this episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence. |
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