Podcast Wednesday: In The Dark Season 2

didic (68)in #podcasts • 6 years ago

It's been a year and a half since the Peabody award winning first season of In The Dark, a documentary podcast series in the style of Serial, with one reporter following one crime. The first season was the story of the kidnapping and murder of 11 year old Jacob Wetterling. That season which was originated as the investigation of an unsolved murder, changed when the murderer confessed and led police to the boy's remains, weeks before the premier. The change made that season stronger, as it focused instead on the impact on the community and on the problematic ways in which the Sherrif's department handled the investigation.

Season 2, which begun this week and already has two episodes, deals with Curtis Flowers, a man who has been tried six times for the same ctime. A man who is currently on death row. The show focuses on the district attorney, the man who put Flowers on trial after each of the first five convictions was thrown out on appeal.

Series host and lead reporter Madeleine Baran does a tremendous job in laying out the evidence, not to the crime, but to the problematic behaviour of the district attorney. The second episode takes one part of the prosecution's case, the witnesses to Flowers' route on the morning of the murder, and just breaks it apart, talking with witnesses and including tapes of their interviews with the investigator for the prosecution. Each episode's page has tons of supporting information and other material that could not be put on the podcast due to time constraints.

At this point, we the listeners have no idea as to the prosecutors motives, and Baran has not been allowed to speak with Flowers. One can hope that as the season progresses, we'll get more insight into that, and that public outrcy may lead to her being allowed to talk to him. And, the way it seems right now, one certainly hopes the podcast will help shed light on the full story, so that it doesn't stat, as the title suggests, in the dark.

I strongly recommend binging the first season to those who feel up to it (it is deeply disturbing, all the moreso for being entirely factual) and joining this second season. This is excellent investigative journalism, and it deserves your attention.

#podcast #inthedark #documentary #podcastwednesday

6 years ago in #podcasts by didic (68)

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williamdidi (47) 6 years ago

sounds cool. will check it out!

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soyrosa (74) 6 years ago

Sounds like a podcast I should not listen to before going to bed :-/ Especially smaller communities can be heavily impacted by crimes, resolved or not, like these.