Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Blood Relatives, Episode 4
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A bloody Bible, propped at an unlikely angle. A manor, locked from the inside. And a silencer, hidde...
Blood Relatives, Episode 3
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One day, Heidi gets a call from Wakefield Prison, where Jeremy Bamber remains locked up, forty years...
Blood Relatives, Episode 2
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Heidi visits an unlikely group of detectives: the victims’ extended family. Their sleuthing upende...
Blood Relatives, Episode 1
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On August 7, 1985, five family members were shot dead in their English country manor, Whitehouse Far...
Trailer: Blood Relatives
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Five family members, murdered. A sixth in prison for life. It’s one of Britain’s most infamous c...
Season 2 Update: Five Years Later
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After nearly twenty-three years behind bars, Curtis Flowers was freed, in part due to In the Dark’...
From The New Yorker Radio Hour: Rachel Aviv on Alice Munro’s Family Secrets
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Donald Trump’s selection of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense caught the attention of the In t...
Bonus: Your Season 3 Questions, Answered
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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”
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
For the past year, the Interactives Department at The New Yorker has been working alongside In the D...
Episode 9: Patient #8
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
For years, we’d thought what everyone thought: that there were twenty-four civilians killed by Mar...
Episode 8: On Trial
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The case against the squad leader, Frank Wuterich, finally goes to trial. To find online-only featu...
Episode 7: Innocent in My Eyes
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The conflicting narratives about what happened in Haditha make their way through the opaque inner wo...
Episode 6: The Full Picture
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Startling new information emerges from deep within the investigation files. Then the In the Dark tea...
Episode 5: Four Brothers
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Was it a face-off with insurgents or the murder of four innocent brothers? We investigate what happe...
Episode 4: What They Saw
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Two conflicting stories about what happened that day emerge—one from the Marines involved in the k...
Episode 3: Sounds Like Murder
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Episodes 1 and 2 of our new season are coming out on July 30th, but subscribers can listen to episod...
Trailer
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A crime committed. A crime forgotten. A crime unpunished.Season 3 of In the Dark, coming July 30th. ...
The Runaway Princesses, Episode 4: Hostage
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Secret recordings reveal what happened to Latifa after armed men stormed the yacht she was hoping ...
The Runaway Princesses, Episode 3: A Nice Lunch
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Princess Latifa is desperate to help her sister Shamsa, who’s been captured, drugged, and imprison...
The Runaway Princesses, Episode 1: Sisters
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
As sex workers flee Sheikh Mohammed’s U.K. estate bruised and weeping, no one is held to account. ...
Trailer: The Runaway Princesses
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The wives and daughters of Dubai’s ruler live in unbelievable luxury. So why do the women in Sheik...
An Announcement
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
During three years investigating the Curtis Flowers case, we’d talked to nearly everyone involved:...
S2 E19: Freedom
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After 24 years, the case against Curtis Flowers is finally over. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn F...
Coronavirus in the Delta E6: Delta State
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
College football is practically a religion in Mississippi. And for the players, it's life. As Covid-...
Coronavirus in the Delta E5: Geno
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
As the coronavirus swept into the Mississippi Delta, a judge in the small city of Indianola decided ...
Coronavirus in the Delta E4: Watermelon Slim
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The doctors and nurses at Greenwood Leflore Hospital brace for the pandemic, cordoning off their ICU...
Coronavirus in the Delta E2: Parchman
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A new limited-run series from In the Dark, reporting on Covid-19 in the Mississippi Delta. Episodes ...
S2 E18: The Recusal
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
District Attorney Doug Evans has prosecuted Curtis Flowers for 23 years and six trials. Now he says ...
S2 E17: Home
22 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After almost 23 years, Curtis Flowers is no longer behind bars. For his family, it's a long-awaited ...
S2 E16: A Hearing
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After nearly 23 years locked up, Curtis Flowers has a chance to get out on bail -- if his lawyers ca...
S2 E15: Revelations
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It's been 11 days since the U.S. Supreme Court threw out Curtis Flowers' conviction. But the story d...
S2 E14: The Decision
21 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On Friday, June 21, after months of deliberation, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its opinion in ...
S2 E13: Oral Arguments
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After nearly nine years of appeals of his sixth trial, Curtis Flowers finally had his case argued be...
S2 E12: Before the Court
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We answer your questions and report on a fire in Winona. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.pr...
S2 Update: SCOTUS Takes the Case
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Curtis Flowers' appeal. Now the justices will examine if D...
S1 Update: The Wetterling File
20 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Season 1 of our podcast, we reported that the Jacob Wetterling case was a botched investigation. ...
S2 Update: Back to Winona
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Two months after the season ended, we return to Winona to see what has changed. Turns out, a lot. Cu...
S2 E11: The End
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
For the last episode of the season, we went to meet Jeffery Armstrong, who, a few years after Curtis...
S2 E10: Discovery
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Prosecutors have always said that Curtis Flowers was the only serious suspect in the Tardy Furniture...
S2 E9: Why Curtis?
19 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After re-examining the case, we'd found no direct evidence linking Curtis Flowers to the murders at ...
S2 E8: The D.A.
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After investigating every aspect of the Curtis Flowers case, we were nearly ready to present what we...
S2 E7: The Trials of Curtis Flowers
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
There's one critical aspect of the Curtis Flowers case that we haven't looked at yet -- the makeup o...
S2 E6: Punishment
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Odell Hallmon, the state's key witness in the Curtis Flowers case, is serving three consecutive life...
S2 E5: Privilege
22 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
No witness has been more important to the prosecution's case against Curtis Flowers than Odell Hallm...
S2 E4: The Confessions
15 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Over the years, three inmates have claimed that Curtis Flowers confessed to them that he killed four...
S2 E3: The Gun
08 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Investigators never found the gun used to kill four people at Tardy Furniture. Yet the gun, and the ...
S2 E2: The Route
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The case against Curtis Flowers relies heavily on three threads of evidence: the route he allegedly ...
S2 E1: July 16, 1996
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On the morning of July 16, 1996, someone walked into a furniture store in downtown Winona, Mississip...
Season Two: The Trailer
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
02 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The sentencing of Danny Heinrich on Nov. 21, 2016, brought to a close the 27-year investigation into...
S1 E9: The Truth
25 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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?
18 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In November 2012, a police officer named Tom Decker was shot and killed in Cold Spring, Minn., after...
S1 E7: This Quiet Place
11 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Soon after the abduction and murder of Jacob Wetterling in 1989, Stearns County sheriff's investigat...
S1 E6: Stranger Danger
04 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the 1970s and early '80s, missing children weren't considered a policing priority. You couldn't e...
S1 E5: Person of Interest
27 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Dan Rassier now wishes he'd insisted that police search his family's St. Joseph farm top to bottom t...
S1 E4: The Circus
20 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
13 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The closest you can get to a conversation with Jacob Wetterling about his abduction is to talk to Ja...
S1 E2: The Circle
07 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When Jacob Wetterling was taken, authorities launched what would turn into one of the largest search...
S1 E1: The Crime
07 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The abduction of Jacob Wetterling, which made parents more vigilant and led to the first national re...
Season One: The Trailer
29 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After he disappeared nearly 27 years ago, Jacob Wetterling's remains have been found. Why did it tak...