In the Dark is een bekroonde podcast over onderzoeksjournalistiek die begon in 2016. Het eerste seizoen draait om de mysterieuze ontvoering van Jacob Wetterling in het landelijke Minnesota en het gebrek aan verantwoordelijkheid van sheriffs wanneer zaken onopgelost blijven.
In seizoen 2 staat de zaak van Curtis Flowers centraal, die maar liefst zes keer voor hetzelfde misdrijf werd berecht. In 2020 bracht In the Dark een speciale reportage uit over de coronapandemie in de Mississippi Delta. In 2023 sloot de podcast zich aan bij The New Yorker en Condé Nast.
In januari verscheen “The Runaway Princesses,” een vierdelige serie die onderzoekt waarom de vrouwen in de koninklijke familie van Dubai steeds opnieuw proberen te ontsnappen. In the Dark heeft tweemaal de Peabody Award gewonnen en was in 2019 de eerste podcast die de prestigieuze George Polk Award ontving. Het programma heeft daarnaast ook de Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award en de Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award op zijn naam staan.
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 in 2024, it released “The Runaway Princesses,” a four-part series that asks why the women in Dubai’s royal family keep trying to run away. Season 3, released in 2024, asked why no one was punished for the killings of twenty-five civilians in Haditha, Iraq.
In the Dark won the Pulitzer Prize for audio for Season 3. The podcast is a three-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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One day, Heidi gets a call from Wakefield Prison, where Jeremy Bamber remains locked up, forty years after the murders. He’s one of the nation’s most reviled villains. But he insists he’s innocent.
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