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.
60 episodes transcribedAlice Munro, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was perhaps the most acclaimed short-story writer of our time. After her death, last...
Donald Trump’s selection of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense caught the attention of the In the Dark team. Hegseth, formerly a weekend c...
In the Dark presents the first episode of “Sold a Story,” an award-winning investigative podcast that is changing how children are taught to...
Was it scary to knock on all those Marines’ doors? What was it like to report in Iraq? Is it still possible for any Marines to face consequen...
For the past year, the Interactives Department at The New Yorker has been working alongside In the Dark on a remarkable visual exploration of...
For years, we’d thought what everyone thought: that there were twenty-four civilians killed by Marines in Haditha on November 19, 2005. But m...
The case against the squad leader, Frank Wuterich, finally goes to trial. To find online-only features, visit newyorker.com/season3. And to g...
The conflicting narratives about what happened in Haditha make their way through the opaque inner workings of the military justice system, un...
Startling new information emerges from deep within the investigation files. Then the In the Dark team gets a big break. To find online-only f...
Was it a face-off with insurgents or the murder of four innocent brothers? We investigate what happened in the final house the Marines entere...
Two conflicting stories about what happened that day emerge—one from the Marines involved in the killings, and another from a very different...
We travel around the U.S. to find the Marines who were on the ground in Haditha on the day of the killings. To get episodes early and ad-free...
A trip to a Marine Corps archive reveals a clue about something that the U.S. military is keeping secret. To get episodes early and ad-free,...
A man in Haditha, Iraq, has a request for the In the Dark team: Can you investigate how my family was killed? To get episodes early and ad-fr...
Episodes 1 and 2 of our new season are coming out on July 30th, but subscribers can listen to episodes early. If you aren’t currently a New Y...
Secret recordings reveal what happened to Latifa after armed men stormed the yacht she was hoping would bring her to freedom."The Runaway Pr...
Latifa has made it to international waters, but she’s not out of danger. Her father has powerful forces at his command."The Runaway Princesse...
Princess Latifa is desperate to help her sister Shamsa, who’s been captured, drugged, and imprisoned on her father’s orders. She makes a plan...
As sex workers flee Sheikh Mohammed’s U.K. estate bruised and weeping, no one is held to account. British authorities look the other way afte...
Big news! In the Dark has a new home and a new team of partners. The podcast now comes to you from The New Yorker—the legendary home of extra...
