Serial

After the worst happens at Guantánamo, the warden tries to explain it to the outside world – and to himself.

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A new warden comes to Guantánamo and decides to make some changes. A prison’s a prison, he thinks. How hard could this be?

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The case against a young airman gets even weirder when the government pulls in two fresh investigators. Part 2: A bride, an FBI agent, and a polygraph machine.

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An Arabic-speaking airman is sent to Guantánamo to translate, and soon finds himself at the center of a major scandal. Part 1: Suspicion swallows evidence.  

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In 2002, an elite interrogation team secretly staged Guantánamo’s most elaborate intel operation — to try to get a single detainee to talk.

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Maybe you have an idea in your head about what it was like to work at Guantánamo, one of the most notorious prisons in the world. Think again.

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From Serial Productions and The New York Times, Serial Season 4 is a history of Guantánamo told by people who lived through key moments in Guantánamo’s evolution, who know things the rest of ...

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The state of Ohio decides where Joshua belongs.

https://serialpodcast.org/season-three/9/some-time-when-everything-has-changed

A teenager decides to cooperate.

https://serialpodcast.org/season-three/8/a-madmans-vacation

If you listen closely to the trash-talking, you start to get the message.

https://serialpodcast.org/season-three/7/the-snowball-effect

Life after you put a cop in jail.

https://serialpodcast.org/season-three/6/you-in-the-red-shirt

Don’t tell the judges, but the prosecutors have the most power in the building.

https://serialpodcast.org/season-three/5/pleas-baby-pleas

What happens when the right evidence points to the wrong man?

https://serialpodcast.org/season-three/4/a-bird-in-jail-is-worth-two-on-the-street

The smell of raw marijuana + acting nervous + hands in pockets = ?

https://serialpodcast.org/season-three/3/misdemeanor-meet-mr-lawsuit

When a judge believes he knows you better than you know yourself.

https://serialpodcast.org/season-three/2/youve-got-some-gauls

A young woman at a bar is slapped on the butt. So why’s she the one in jail?

https://serialpodcast.org/season-three/1/a-bar-fight-walks-into-the-justice-center

The Season Two finale: What is Bowe’s fault, and what isn’t?

https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/11/present-for-duty

Are you hearing what I’m hearing?

https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/10/thorny-politics

You don’t make peace with your friends. 

https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/9/trade-secrets

Woulda, coulda, shoulda…

https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/8/hindsight-part-2

It makes sense if you’re Bowe Bergdahl.

https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/7/hindsight-part-1

Why did Bowe Bergdahl walk off? 

https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/6/5-oclock-shadow

CIA, FBI, YouTube, the Portland PD? There was no handbook for getting Bergdahl back.

https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/5/meanwhile-in-tampa

What's happening on the other side of the door?

https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/4/the-captors

Bergdahl’s first year in captivity starts with an escape and ends with an escape. In between, he learns necessary, twisted lessons of survival.

https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/3/escaping

On the move with Bergdahl, the Taliban slip past the U.S. Army’s massive effort to find him. During those days and weeks, each side is asking, what is Bergdahl worth to us?

https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/2/the-golden-chicken

In the middle of the night, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl grabs a notebook, snacks, water, some cash. Then he quietly slips off a remote U.S. Army outpost in eastern Afghanistan and into the dark, open de...

https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/1/dustwun

It’s Baltimore, 2022. Adnan Syed has spent the last 23 years incarcerated, serving a life sentence for the murder of Hae Min Lee, a crime he says he didn’t commit. He has exhausted every lega...

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February 2016: Sarah Koenig ducks back into the Adnan Syed case for a few days. There’s a hearing in Baltimore—a court proceeding that’s been nearly sixteen years in the making. Syed’s at...

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February 2016: Sarah Koenig ducks back into the Adnan Syed case for a few days. There’s a hearing in Baltimore—a court proceeding that’s been nearly sixteen years in the making. Syed’s at...

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February 2016: Sarah Koenig ducks back into the Adnan Syed case for a few days. There’s a hearing in Baltimore—a court proceeding that’s been nearly sixteen years in the making. Syed’s at...

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On January 13, 1999, Adnan Syed was a hurt and vengeful ex-boyfriend who carried out a premeditated murder. Or he was a bewildered bystander, framed for a crime he could never have committed. Af...

https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/12/what-we-know

Almost everyone describes the 17-year-old Adnan the same way: good kid, helpful at the mosque, respectful to his elders. But a couple of months ago, Sarah started getting phone calls from people...

https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/11/rumors

Adnan’s trial lawyer was M. Cristina Gutierrez, a renowned defense attorney in Maryland – tough and savvy and smart. Other lawyers said she was exactly the kind of person you’d want defend...

https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/10/the-best-defense-is-a-good-defense

New information is coming in about what maybe didn’t happen on January 13, 1999.  And while Adnan’s memory of that day is foggy at best, he does remember what happened next: being question...

https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/9/to-be-suspected

The state’s case against Adnan Syed hinged on Jay’s credibility; he was their star witness and also, because of his changing statements to police, their chief liability. Naturally, Adnan’s ...

https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/8/the-deal-with-jay

Adnan told Sarah about a case in Virginia that had striking similarities to his own: one key witness, incriminating cell phone records, young people, drugs - and a defendant who has always mainta...

https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/7/the-opposite-of-the-prosecution

The physical evidence against Adnan Syed was scant - a few underwhelming fingerprints. So aside from cell records, what did the prosecutors bring to the jury, to shore up Jay's testimony? Sarah w...

https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/6/the-case-against-adnan-syed

Adnan once issued a challenge to Sarah. He told her to test the state’s timeline of the murder by driving from Woodlawn High School to Best Buy in 21 minutes. It can’t be done, he said. So Sa...

https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/5/route-talk

A few days after Hae’s body is found, the detectives get a lead that opens the case up for them. They find Jay at work late one night and bring him down to Homicide. At first, he insists he doe...

https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/4/inconsistencies

It’s February 9, 1999. Hae has been missing for three weeks. A man on his lunch break pulls off a road to pee, and stumbles on her body in a city forest. His odd recounting of the discovery mak...

https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/3/leakin-park

Their relationship began like a storybook high-school romance: a prom date, love notes, sneaking off to be alone. But unlike other kids at school, they had to keep their dating secret, because th...

https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/2/the-breakup

It's Baltimore, 1999. Hae Min Lee, a popular high-school senior, disappears after school one day. Six weeks later detectives arrest her classmate and ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, for her murder. He ...

https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/1/the-alibi