In The Dark
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In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, is an award-winning investigative-journalism podcast that started in 2016. Its first season looked at the mysterious abduction of Jacob Wetterling in rural Minnesota and the lack of accountability that sheriffs face when they fail to solve cases. Season 2 examined the case of Curtis Flowers, who was tried six times for the same crime. In 2020, In the Dark released a special report on the coronavirus pandemic in the Mississippi Delta. In 2023, In the Dark joined The New Yorker and Condé Nast. “The Runaway Princesses,” a four-part series that asks why the women in Dubai’s royal family keep trying to run away, came out in January.
In the Dark is a two-time Peabody Award winner and, in 2019, became the first podcast to win a George Polk Award, one of the top honors in journalism. The program has also received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.
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S1 E1: The Crime
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09/07/16 • 34 min
The abduction of Jacob Wetterling, which made parents more vigilant and led to the first national requirement that states track sex offenders via registries, took place before moonrise on a warm October night in 1989.
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S1 E3: The One Who Got Away
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09/13/16 • 44 min
The closest you can get to a conversation with Jacob Wetterling about his abduction is to talk to Jared Scheierl. Scheierl was walking home from an ice skating rink in Cold Spring in January 1989 when a man who turned out to be Danny Heinrich forced him into a car, assaulted him, and let him go, uttering some chilling parting words: "If they come close to finding out who I am, I'll find you and kill you." That was nine months before Jacob's abduction.
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S1 E2: The Circle
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09/07/16 • 38 min
When Jacob Wetterling was taken, authorities launched what would turn into one of the largest searches for any missing person in the history of the United States. But that first night, law enforcement didn't cover all the basics.
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Episode 1: The Green Grass
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07/30/24 • 42 min
A man in Haditha, Iraq, has a request for the In the Dark team: Can you investigate how my family was killed?
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S1 E5: Person of Interest
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09/27/16 • 47 min
Dan Rassier now wishes he'd insisted that police search his family's St. Joseph farm top to bottom the night Jacob Wetterling was abducted. That way, they would have known there was nothing to find. And it would have been harder for them to come back 21 years later to search with backhoes and declare him a "person of interest" in the case.
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S1 E7: This Quiet Place
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10/11/16 • 40 min
Soon after the abduction and murder of Jacob Wetterling in 1989, Stearns County sheriff's investigators came face to face with his killer, Danny Heinrich, who would confess to the crime 27 years later. Then they let him go. It wasn't the first time that had happened in Stearns County.
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S1 E6: Stranger Danger
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10/04/16 • 36 min
In the 1970s and early '80s, missing children weren't considered a policing priority. You couldn't even enter missing child information into the FBI's national crime database. But that changed quickly.
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S1 E4: The Circus
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09/20/16 • 36 min
The Wetterling abduction story kept getting bigger as the case served as a conduit for public fear and grief. Capitalizing on a growing sense that pedophiles lurked in every shadow, the likes of Maury Povich and Geraldo Rivera joined the cause with sensational retellings of the crime and its consequences.
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S2 E1: July 16, 1996
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05/01/18 • 42 min
On the morning of July 16, 1996, someone walked into a furniture store in downtown Winona, Mississippi, and murdered four employees. Each was shot in the head. It was perhaps the most shocking crime the small town had ever seen. Investigators charged a man named Curtis Flowers with the murders. What followed was a two-decade legal odyssey in which Flowers was tried six times for the same crime. He remains on death row, though some people believe he's innocent. For the second season of In the Dark, we spent a year digging into the Flowers case. We found a town divided by race and a murder conviction supported by questionable evidence. And it all began that summer morning in 1996 with a horrifying crime scene that left investigators puzzled.
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Episode 3: Sounds Like Murder
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08/06/24 • 40 min
We travel around the U.S. to find the Marines who were on the ground in Haditha on the day of the killings.
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FAQ
How many episodes does In The Dark have?
In The Dark currently has 67 episodes available.
What topics does In The Dark cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary and Podcasts.
What is the most popular episode on In The Dark?
The episode title 'S1 E1: The Crime' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on In The Dark?
The average episode length on In The Dark is 36 minutes.
How often are episodes of In The Dark released?
Episodes of In The Dark are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of In The Dark?
The first episode of In The Dark was released on Aug 29, 2016.
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