From The New Yorker Radio Hour: Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets
Tue, 11 Mar 2025
Alice Munro, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was perhaps the most acclaimed short-story w...
Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the Future of American War-Crimes Prosecutions
Fri, 22 Nov 2024
Donald Trump’s selection of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense caught the attention of the In t...
Bonus: Your Season 3 Questions, Answered
Tue, 12 Nov 2024
Was it scary to knock on all those Marines’ doors? What was it like to report in Iraq? Is it still...
Bonus: “Cleared by Fire”
Fri, 27 Sep 2024
For the past year, the Interactives Department at The New Yorker has been working alongside In the D...
Episode 9: Patient #8
Tue, 17 Sep 2024
For years, we’d thought what everyone thought: that there were twenty-four civilians killed by Mar...
Episode 8: On Trial
Tue, 10 Sep 2024
The case against the squad leader, Frank Wuterich, finally goes to trial. To find online-only featu...
Episode 7: Innocent in My Eyes
Tue, 03 Sep 2024
The conflicting narratives about what happened in Haditha make their way through the opaque inner wo...
Episode 6: The Full Picture
Tue, 27 Aug 2024
Startling new information emerges from deep within the investigation files. Then the In the Dark tea...
Episode 5: Four Brothers
Tue, 20 Aug 2024
Was it a face-off with insurgents or the murder of four innocent brothers? We investigate what happe...
Episode 4: What They Saw
Tue, 13 Aug 2024
Two conflicting stories about what happened that day emerge—one from the Marines involved in the k...
Episode 3: Sounds Like Murder
Tue, 06 Aug 2024
We travel around the U.S. to find the Marines who were on the ground in Haditha on the day of the ki...
Episode 2: I Have Questions
Tue, 30 Jul 2024
A trip to a Marine Corps archive reveals a clue about something that the U.S. military is keeping se...
Episode 1: The Green Grass
Tue, 30 Jul 2024
A man in Haditha, Iraq, has a request for the In the Dark team: Can you investigate how my family wa...
Start Listening to Season 3 Today
Tue, 23 Jul 2024
Episodes 1 and 2 of our new season are coming out on July 30th, but subscribers can listen to episod...
Trailer
Tue, 16 Jul 2024
A crime committed. A crime forgotten. A crime unpunished.Season 3 of In the Dark, coming July 30th. ...
The Runaway Princesses, Episode 4: Hostage
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
Secret recordings reveal what happened to Latifa after armed men stormed the yacht she was hoping ...
The Runaway Princesses, Episode 3: A Nice Lunch
Tue, 13 Feb 2024
Latifa has made it to international waters, but she’s not out of danger. Her father has powerful f...
The Runaway Princesses, Episode 2: Escape
Tue, 06 Feb 2024
Princess Latifa is desperate to help her sister Shamsa, who’s been captured, drugged, and imprison...
The Runaway Princesses, Episode 1: Sisters
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
As sex workers flee Sheikh Mohammed’s U.K. estate bruised and weeping, no one is held to account. ...
Trailer: The Runaway Princesses
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
The wives and daughters of Dubai’s ruler live in unbelievable luxury. So why do the women in Sheik...
An Announcement
Thu, 09 Mar 2023
Big news! In the Dark has a new home and a new team of partners. The podcast now comes to you from T...
S2 E20: Curtis Flowers
Wed, 14 Oct 2020
During three years investigating the Curtis Flowers case, we’d talked to nearly everyone involved:...
S2 E19: Freedom
Fri, 04 Sep 2020
After 24 years, the case against Curtis Flowers is finally over. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn F...
Coronavirus in the Delta E6: Delta State
Thu, 11 Jun 2020
College football is practically a religion in Mississippi. And for the players, it's life. As Covid-...
Coronavirus in the Delta E5: Geno
Thu, 28 May 2020
As the coronavirus swept into the Mississippi Delta, a judge in the small city of Indianola decided ...
Coronavirus in the Delta E4: Watermelon Slim
Thu, 21 May 2020
In the middle of a pandemic, with so many people suffering alone, it seemed an appropriate time to h...
Coronavirus in the Delta E3: The Hospital
Thu, 14 May 2020
The doctors and nurses at Greenwood Leflore Hospital brace for the pandemic, cordoning off their ICU...
Coronavirus in the Delta E2: Parchman
Wed, 06 May 2020
How do you self-isolate when your home is a single room that you share with 107 men? That's what inm...
Coronavirus in the Delta E1: Greenville
Thu, 30 Apr 2020
A storm hits Greenville just in time for Easter. Two pastors and a mayor clash over how to do church...
Coronavirus in the Delta: The Trailer
Thu, 23 Apr 2020
A new limited-run series from In the Dark, reporting on Covid-19 in the Mississippi Delta. Episodes ...
S2 E18: The Recusal
Mon, 06 Jan 2020
District Attorney Doug Evans has prosecuted Curtis Flowers for 23 years and six trials. Now he says ...
S2 E17: Home
Sun, 22 Dec 2019
After almost 23 years, Curtis Flowers is no longer behind bars. For his family, it's a long-awaited ...
S2 E16: A Hearing
Mon, 16 Dec 2019
After nearly 23 years locked up, Curtis Flowers has a chance to get out on bail -- if his lawyers ca...
S2 E15: Revelations
Tue, 02 Jul 2019
It's been 11 days since the U.S. Supreme Court threw out Curtis Flowers' conviction. But the story d...
S2 E14: The Decision
Fri, 21 Jun 2019
On Friday, June 21, after months of deliberation, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its opinion in ...
S2 E13: Oral Arguments
Tue, 26 Mar 2019
After nearly nine years of appeals of his sixth trial, Curtis Flowers finally had his case argued be...
S2 E12: Before the Court
Tue, 19 Mar 2019
We resume Season Two with the U.S. Supreme Court weighing Curtis Flowers' case. We preview oral argu...
S2 Update: Q&A + A Fire in Winona
Tue, 27 Nov 2018
We answer your questions and report on a fire in Winona. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.pr...
S2 Update: SCOTUS Takes the Case
Fri, 02 Nov 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Curtis Flowers' appeal. Now the justices will examine if D...
S1 Update: The Wetterling File
Thu, 20 Sep 2018
In Season 1 of our podcast, we reported that the Jacob Wetterling case was a botched investigation. ...
S2 Update: Back to Winona
Tue, 18 Sep 2018
Two months after the season ended, we return to Winona to see what has changed. Turns out, a lot. Cu...
S2 E11: The End
Tue, 03 Jul 2018
For the last episode of the season, we went to meet Jeffery Armstrong, who, a few years after Curtis...
S2 E10: Discovery
Tue, 26 Jun 2018
Prosecutors have always said that Curtis Flowers was the only serious suspect in the Tardy Furniture...
S2 E9: Why Curtis?
Tue, 19 Jun 2018
After re-examining the case, we'd found no direct evidence linking Curtis Flowers to the murders at ...
S2 E8: The D.A.
Tue, 12 Jun 2018
After investigating every aspect of the Curtis Flowers case, we were nearly ready to present what we...
S2 E7: The Trials of Curtis Flowers
Tue, 05 Jun 2018
There's one critical aspect of the Curtis Flowers case that we haven't looked at yet -- the makeup o...
S2 E6: Punishment
Tue, 29 May 2018
Odell Hallmon, the state's key witness in the Curtis Flowers case, is serving three consecutive life...
S2 E5: Privilege
Tue, 22 May 2018
No witness has been more important to the prosecution's case against Curtis Flowers than Odell Hallm...
S2 E4: The Confessions
Tue, 15 May 2018
Over the years, three inmates have claimed that Curtis Flowers confessed to them that he killed four...
S2 E3: The Gun
Tue, 08 May 2018
Investigators never found the gun used to kill four people at Tardy Furniture. Yet the gun, and the ...
S2 E2: The Route
Tue, 01 May 2018
The case against Curtis Flowers relies heavily on three threads of evidence: the route he allegedly ...
S2 E1: July 16, 1996
Tue, 01 May 2018
On the morning of July 16, 1996, someone walked into a furniture store in downtown Winona, Mississip...
Season Two: The Trailer
Mon, 16 Apr 2018
Curtis Flowers has been tried six times for the same crime. For 21 years, Flowers has maintained his...
S1 Update: A Sentencing, A Demand, No Closure
Fri, 02 Dec 2016
The sentencing of Danny Heinrich on Nov. 21, 2016, brought to a close the 27-year investigation into...
S1 E9: The Truth
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
When Danny Heinrich confessed in court on Sept. 6 to abducting and murdering Jacob Wetterling and as...
S1 E8: What's Going on Down There?
Tue, 18 Oct 2016
In November 2012, a police officer named Tom Decker was shot and killed in Cold Spring, Minn., after...
S1 E7: This Quiet Place
Tue, 11 Oct 2016
Soon after the abduction and murder of Jacob Wetterling in 1989, Stearns County sheriff's investigat...
S1 E6: Stranger Danger
Tue, 04 Oct 2016
In the 1970s and early '80s, missing children weren't considered a policing priority. You couldn't e...
S1 E5: Person of Interest
Tue, 27 Sep 2016
Dan Rassier now wishes he'd insisted that police search his family's St. Joseph farm top to bottom t...
S1 E4: The Circus
Tue, 20 Sep 2016
The Wetterling abduction story kept getting bigger as the case served as a conduit for public fear a...
S1 E3: The One Who Got Away
Tue, 13 Sep 2016
The closest you can get to a conversation with Jacob Wetterling about his abduction is to talk to Ja...
S1 E2: The Circle
Wed, 07 Sep 2016
When Jacob Wetterling was taken, authorities launched what would turn into one of the largest search...
S1 E1: The Crime
Wed, 07 Sep 2016
The abduction of Jacob Wetterling, which made parents more vigilant and led to the first national re...
Season One: The Trailer
Mon, 29 Aug 2016
After he disappeared nearly 27 years ago, Jacob Wetterling's remains have been found. Why did it tak...