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- Serial is an investigative podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig that examines one story per season told week by week. The first season looks at the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee in Maryland. The second season looks at the story of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl who was held prisoner in Afghanistan by the Taliban. The third season looks at criminal cases in the Cleveland justice system.
- TV Series
- Follows the story of a Tennessee county that was arresting and illegally jailing children for almost two decades.
- Kim Barker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times, revisits an unsolved murder that took place while she was in high school in Laramie, Wyoming, nearly 40 years ago.
- Nice White Parents is a podcast about the six decade old relationship between white parents and the public schools in their neighborhoods. It is hosted by Chana Joffe-Walt.
- Dozens of women seeking to become mothers came to a fertility clinic at Yale. A (five-part) narrative series about the shocking events that unfolded there.
- A story of lies, family, America, and what Covid revealed, as well as what it destroyed.
- From the makers of Serial and The New York Times, a five-part series about allegations of election fraud, and the powerful forces that fuel them.
- Sarah Koenig examines the story of Adnan Syed who was convicted of the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. She gives some background of the case and begins her investigation by following up on several dormant leads and rechecking alibis.
- Sarah Koenig discusses Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee relationship which was kept secret from their parents. After Lee, ends the relationship her friends speculate about Syed's behavior some thinking him he was fine with it while other think he was angry.
- Sarah Koenig examines the testimony of 'Mr. S" who discovered the body of Hae Min Lee three weeks after she disappeared. The detectives who question him find his account suspicious before a background check reveals a number of bizarre behaviors.
- Sarah Koenig examines how an anonymous tip leads detectives to search Adnan Syed's phone records. They, then, track down a marijuana dealer Jay Wilds who claims that Syed confessed to killing Lee and then forced him to help bury the body. The police claim to cooperate the story with cell phone records.
- Sarah Koenig drives the route that prosecutors claim Adnan Syed took to day of Hae Min Lee's murder. She goes from the high school to the Best Buy parking lot where Jay claims he was shown the body. Although the time-line is possible, there are questions about whether call logs and cell tower pings back Jay's story.
- Sarah Koenig examines the evidence against Adnan Syed. This includes Jay's testimony, a palm print on a map, and cell phone records. She speculates on how the murder could have taken place if Syed was responsible, but she also examines some evidence that does not quite fit the prosecutor's narrative.
- Sarah Koenig talks to Deirdre Enright the Director of Investigations for the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law. She and a group of students examine the case against Adnan Syed and argue that the evidence against him remains thin.
- Sarah Koenig looks more closely at Jay's account of events. She talks to jury members and a homicide detective who tells them the investigation was better than average. Koenig and a producer meet with Jay, but he refuses an interview. They speak to one of Jay's friends and are left with further questions.
- Sarah Koenig considers new information about a crucial call in the case. She discusses contradictory stories about a pay phone in front of Best Buy. She also talks to a witness who claims to have spoken to Hae Min Lee on the day of the murder and another witness who say Adnan Syed in the library the day of the murder.
- Sarah Koenig examines whether anti-Muslin sentiment factored into the trial of Adnan Syed. The prosecution argues that Syed would flee to Pakistan if bail was granted and that the murder was a religiously-motivated honor killing. His first trial ends in a mistrial, but the second trial goes poorly with Syed 's lawyer perhaps mishandling the case.
- Sarah Koenig looks into some negative rumors she heard about Adnan Syed. She examines how his arrested affected people in his religious community. Syed admits to taking money from the mosque, but he did have a positive reputation as a peacemaker. Sarah talks to a psychologist about whether he might be a sociopath.
- Sarah Koenig looks back at the case and concludes after a year of research that she still doesn't know what happened Hae Min Lee. She discusses information that she discovered since the podcast began. She looks over the evidence and concludes that neither Jay nor Syed's story fit the evidence. She also discusses Syed's petition for an appeal.
- Sarah Koenig begins her examination of the case of Private Bowe Bergdahl who left his U.S. Army post in Afghanistan in 2009 in an effort to trigger a "DUSTWUN" manhunt. Bergdahl claims he wanted to expose poor leadership at his post, but he is instead captured by enemy fighters and disappears.
- Sarah Koenig examines the capture of Bowe Bergdahl and hears it recounted from Taliban that were present at the capture. She, then, speaks to U.S. soldiers who were part of the initial recovery efforts. They discuss some of their feelings about Bergdahl following his disappearance.
- Sarah Koenig talks about Bergdahl's attempts to escape after he was captured. His first attempt result in a brief bit of freedom, but he was later chained to a bed for three months as punishment. His next escape lasted eight days before he was injured falling off a cliff. He remains in captivity until he is released in 2014.
- Sarah Koenig examines Bergdahl's account of his captors since his account from captivity is confusing. She talks to David Rohde who was held captive by the Haqqani network for several months. He gives a clearer picture since he was accompanied by Afghan colleagues who could understand what his captors were doing.
- Sarah Koenig looks at the initial search for Bergdahl in the United States. His case was initially handled by two low-level intelligence analysts at CENTCOM in Tampa. An analyst recruits the Bergdahl family to assist and make the case more public.
- Sarah Koenig talks about the 380-page statement Bowe Bergdahl gave shortly after his return. Bowe was a good soldier initially, but he became disillusioned after training. When he got to Afghanistan, he became alienated from his commanders and came to believe that his commander's priorities were incorrect. He chose to leave the based after his battalion was scolded for a minor offense.
- Sarah Koenig examines the reasons why Bowe Bergdahl left the base. Bowe says that he left the base because his commanders were incompetent. Koenig discusses Bergdahl's psychological state noting that his stint in the Coast Guard ended because of depression. She wonders whether the army should have let him in.
- Sarah Koenig examines whether Bowe Bergdahl should have been accepted into the Army after his breakdown in the Coast Guard two years earlier. She talks to a psychologist and several of Bergdahl's friends about his paranoia. She discusses how many of the soldiers in his platoon think he should have been court-martialed.
- Sarah Koenig examines Bowe Bergdahl's release from the Taliban. It was conducted through a secret peace negotiation in Munich in 2010. The United States agreed to trade Bergdahl for two prisoners being kept in Guantanamo, but the negotiator passed away leaving everything on hold. Eventually after further negotiations, the Taliban agreed to release Bergdahl in return for five Taliban prisoners.
- Sarah Koenig examines the politics surrounding the Bowe Bergdahl case. When democrats characterized his service positively, conservative media interviewed soldiers from his platoon critical of him and criticized the Obama administration for negotiating with terrorists.
- Sarah Koenig examines the many questions that remain about the Bowe Bergdahl's case. She talks about how Bergdahl's Coast Guard friends cannot understand how he could have got into the Army given his breakdown. She discusses the military's desire to punish Bergdahl and whether people died in the search for him.
- Sarah Koenig observes criminal court system in Cleveland, Ohio. She looks at the case of a Anna a woman harassed at a bar by men she didn't know. Law enforcement gets involved and Anna accidentally ends up assaulting an officer. Anna goes through pretrial before pleads guilty. Koenig notes that the men harassing Anna were not arrested.
- Sarah Koenig looks at the many felony judges in Cuyahoga County. She discusses Judge Daniel Gaul and his unusual sentence methods and explores how he and other judges have the power to sentence people based more on their personal beliefs about justice than some systemic methodology.
- Sarah Koenig examines the case of Emirius Spencer who was beaten by off-duty police officers after he was found in possession of marijuana. She talks to attorneys, witnesses, and police officers while exploring the broader theme of the complexities and difficulties of community-police relations.
- Serial looks at the examines the stigma around not trusting the police in a community and the shooting death of five-month-old Avielle Wakefield in 2015.Davon Holmes was convicted of the crime, but claims he was not guilty. Avielle's father is interviewed and reveals that the community knows Holmes is innocent, but are simply to wary of law enforcement to come forward.