About the Podcast

In the Dark is an investigative podcast from APM Reports. Season One: The investigation into the abduction of Jacob Wetterling yielded no answers for 27 years. We investigate how law enforcement mishandled one of the most notorious child abductions in the country and how those failures fueled national anxiety about stranger danger, led to the nation's sex-offender registries and raise questions about crime-solving accountability. Season Two: Curtis Flowers has been tried six times for the same crime. For 21 years, Flowers has maintained his innocence. He's won appeal after appeal, but every time, the prosecutor just tries the case again. What does the evidence reveal? And how can the justice system ignore the prosecutor's record and keep Flowers on death row? In the Dark is a recipient of the 2016 Peabody Award.

About the Host

Madeleine Baran and Samara Freemark

Madeleine Baran is an award winning journalist who has been at the forefront breaking some of the biggest stories. She has taken on tough and heart-breaking investigations of trusted institutions that had led to change or accountability. Her lead reporting on the Twin Cities clergy-abuse scandal woke up an entire community to abuses of children and of power. She was nationally recognized and received many honors, such as the prestigious Alfred I. duPont Award and a Peabody Award. Samara Freemark joined American Public Media in 2013. Before that she covered veterans’ issues for the Public Insight Network and worked as a reporter and producer with Radio Diaries, where she helped ordinary people tell extraordinary stories. Her work at Radio Diaries received the George Foster Peabody Award. Freemark has also worked as an environmental reporter, and as a staffer in the newsroom of WUOM Ann Arbor.

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