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Podcast season 2 · True Crime

In the Dark S2

In the Dark · APM Reports

A model investigative season: rigorous enough to challenge the official case and humane enough to keep the people harmed by it in view.

LR score 94 · 1 published rating

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Work
Self-contained season 2
Release
Complete
Episodes
20 verified main-run episodes
Count scope
This is a verified main-run count, not an all-published feed total; bonus, update, trailer, and epilogue items may be excluded.
Facts reviewed
July 21, 2026
Editorial review
July 22, 2026

Listening Record verdict

Why we recommend it

The reporting does more than retell the Curtis Flowers prosecutions; it examines how evidence, racial bias, and prosecutorial power reinforced one another, making the season especially useful for listeners who value method over sensational revelation.

Best for: Listeners seeking patient reporting about wrongful conviction, prosecutorial power, and the mechanics of reinvestigation.

Not for: Listeners looking for a light mystery or an escape from detailed discussion of racism, murder, and capital punishment.

Strengths

  • Builds its case through painstaking reinvestigation rather than recap.
  • Connects individual evidence failures to broader institutional power.

Caveats

  • The subject matter is emotionally demanding and includes sustained attention to racial injustice and the death penalty.

Sensitivity guidance: Contains detailed discussion of murder, racism, wrongful conviction, and capital punishment.

Editorial signals

Story, reporting, and tone

  • wrongful conviction
  • institutional failure
  • prosecutorial power
  • reinvestigation
  • evidence-led
  • systems reporting
  • methodical
  • grave
  • humane

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