In The Dark

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000

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Alice Munro, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was perhaps the most acclaimed short-story w...

Fri, 22 Nov

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Donald Trump’s selection of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense caught the attention of the In t...

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000

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Was it scary to knock on all those Marines’ doors? What was it like to report in Iraq? Is it still...

Fri, 27 Sep

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For the past year, the Interactives Department at The New Yorker has been working alongside In the D...

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0000

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For years, we’d thought what everyone thought: that there were twenty-four civilians killed by Mar...

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0000

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The case against the squad leader, Frank Wuterich, finally goes to trial. To find online-only featu...

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0000

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The conflicting narratives about what happened in Haditha make their way through the opaque inner wo...

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0000

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Startling new information emerges from deep within the investigation files. Then the In the Dark tea...

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0000

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Was it a face-off with insurgents or the murder of four innocent brothers? We investigate what happe...

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0000

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Two conflicting stories about what happened that day emerge—one from the Marines involved in the k...

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0000

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We travel around the U.S. to find the Marines who were on the ground in Haditha on the day of the ki...

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:01:00 -0000

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A trip to a Marine Corps archive reveals a clue about something that the U.S. military is keeping se...

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0000

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A man in Haditha, Iraq, has a request for the In the Dark team: Can you investigate how my family wa...

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:05:00 -0000

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Episodes 1 and 2 of our new season are coming out on July 30th, but subscribers can listen to episod...

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0000

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A crime committed. A crime forgotten. A crime unpunished.Season 3 of In the Dark, coming July 30th. ...

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:00:00 -0000

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 Secret recordings reveal what happened to Latifa after armed men stormed the yacht she was hoping ...

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 10:00:00 -0000

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Latifa has made it to international waters, but she’s not out of danger. Her father has powerful f...

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 10:00:00 -0000

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Princess Latifa is desperate to help her sister Shamsa, who’s been captured, drugged, and imprison...

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:00:00 -0000

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As sex workers flee Sheikh Mohammed’s U.K. estate bruised and weeping, no one is held to account. ...

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:00:00 -0000

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The wives and daughters of Dubai’s ruler live in unbelievable luxury. So why do the women in Sheik...

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:00:00 -0000

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Big news! In the Dark has a new home and a new team of partners. The podcast now comes to you from T...

Wed, 14 Oct

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During three years investigating the Curtis Flowers case, we’d talked to nearly everyone involved:...

Fri, 04 Sep

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After 24 years, the case against Curtis Flowers is finally over. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn F...

Thu, 11 Jun 2020 05:00:00 -0000

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College football is practically a religion in Mississippi. And for the players, it's life. As Covid-...

Thu, 28 May 2020 05:00:00 -0000

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As the coronavirus swept into the Mississippi Delta, a judge in the small city of Indianola decided ...

Thu, 21 May 2020 05:00:00 -0000

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In the middle of a pandemic, with so many people suffering alone, it seemed an appropriate time to h...

Thu, 14 May 2020 05:00:00 -0000

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The doctors and nurses at Greenwood Leflore Hospital brace for the pandemic, cordoning off their ICU...

Wed, 06 May

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How do you self-isolate when your home is a single room that you share with 107 men? That's what inm...

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 05:00:00 -0000

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A storm hits Greenville just in time for Easter. Two pastors and a mayor clash over how to do church...

Thu, 23 Apr 2020 06:00:00 -0000

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A new limited-run series from In the Dark, reporting on Covid-19 in the Mississippi Delta. Episodes ...

Mon, 06 Jan

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District Attorney Doug Evans has prosecuted Curtis Flowers for 23 years and six trials. Now he says ...

Sun, 22 Dec

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After almost 23 years, Curtis Flowers is no longer behind bars. For his family, it's a long-awaited ...

Mon, 16 Dec

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After nearly 23 years locked up, Curtis Flowers has a chance to get out on bail -- if his lawyers ca...

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 05:00:00 -0000

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It's been 11 days since the U.S. Supreme Court threw out Curtis Flowers' conviction. But the story d...

Fri, 21 Jun

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On Friday, June 21, after months of deliberation, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its opinion in ...

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 05:00:00 -0000

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After nearly nine years of appeals of his sixth trial, Curtis Flowers finally had his case argued be...

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 05:00:00 -0000

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We resume Season Two with the U.S. Supreme Court weighing Curtis Flowers' case. We preview oral argu...

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 06:00:00 -0000

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We answer your questions and report on a fire in Winona.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.pr...

Fri, 02 Nov

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Curtis Flowers' appeal. Now the justices will examine if D...

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 21:52:00 -0000

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In Season 1 of our podcast, we reported that the Jacob Wetterling case was a botched investigation. ...

Tue, 18 Sep 2018 05:00:00 -0000

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Two months after the season ended, we return to Winona to see what has changed. Turns out, a lot. Cu...

Tue, 03 Jul 2018 05:00:00 -0000

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For the last episode of the season, we went to meet Jeffery Armstrong, who, a few years after Curtis...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 05:00:00 -0000

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Prosecutors have always said that Curtis Flowers was the only serious suspect in the Tardy Furniture...

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 05:00:00 -0000

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After re-examining the case, we'd found no direct evidence linking Curtis Flowers to the murders at ...

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 05:00:00 -0000

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After investigating every aspect of the Curtis Flowers case, we were nearly ready to present what we...

Tue, 05 Jun 2018 05:00:00 -0000

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There's one critical aspect of the Curtis Flowers case that we haven't looked at yet -- the makeup o...

Tue, 29 May 2018 05:00:00 -0000

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Odell Hallmon, the state's key witness in the Curtis Flowers case, is serving three consecutive life...

Tue, 22 May 2018 05:00:00 -0000

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No witness has been more important to the prosecution's case against Curtis Flowers than Odell Hallm...

Tue, 15 May 2018 05:00:00 -0000

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Over the years, three inmates have claimed that Curtis Flowers confessed to them that he killed four...

Tue, 08 May 2018 05:00:00 -0000

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Investigators never found the gun used to kill four people at Tardy Furniture. Yet the gun, and the ...

Tue, 01 May 2018 06:00:00 -0000

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The case against Curtis Flowers relies heavily on three threads of evidence: the route he allegedly ...

Tue, 01 May 2018 05:00:00 -0000

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On the morning of July 16, 1996, someone walked into a furniture store in downtown Winona, Mississip...

Mon, 16 Apr

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Curtis Flowers has been tried six times for the same crime. For 21 years, Flowers has maintained his...

Fri, 02 Dec

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The sentencing of Danny Heinrich on Nov. 21, 2016, brought to a close the 27-year investigation into...

Tue, 25 Oct 2016 05:00:00 -0000

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When Danny Heinrich confessed in court on Sept. 6 to abducting and murdering Jacob Wetterling and as...

Tue, 18 Oct 2016 05:00:00 -0000

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In November 2012, a police officer named Tom Decker was shot and killed in Cold Spring, Minn., after...

Tue, 11 Oct 2016 05:00:00 -0000

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Soon after the abduction and murder of Jacob Wetterling in 1989, Stearns County sheriff's investigat...

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 05:00:00 -0000

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In the 1970s and early '80s, missing children weren't considered a policing priority. You couldn't e...

Tue, 27 Sep 2016 05:00:00 -0000

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Dan Rassier now wishes he'd insisted that police search his family's St. Joseph farm top to bottom t...

Tue, 20 Sep 2016 05:00:00 -0000

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The Wetterling abduction story kept getting bigger as the case served as a conduit for public fear a...

Tue, 13 Sep 2016 05:00:00 -0000

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The closest you can get to a conversation with Jacob Wetterling about his abduction is to talk to Ja...

Wed, 07 Sep

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When Jacob Wetterling was taken, authorities launched what would turn into one of the largest search...

Wed, 07 Sep

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The abduction of Jacob Wetterling, which made parents more vigilant and led to the first national re...

Mon, 29 Aug

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After he disappeared nearly 27 years ago, Jacob Wetterling's remains have been found. Why did it tak...