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Episode publication activity over the past year

Last Checked: 2025-05-25 17:32:36

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...