In The Dark

By The New YorkerSociety & Culture Documentary True Crime

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In The Dark episodes

October 13 The Journey Update: The D.A. Brings Charges
Three weeks after we released “The Journey,” Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang were arrested, and local prosecutors charged them in a child-abuse case. The F.B.I. is now looking into the couple, and new details have emerged about what happened inside their mansion.

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31 min
October 13 The Journey, Episode 5: The Children
Will the children be returned to the couple’s mansion? As the judge reaches a decision, Ava examines a confidential court file and makes a startling discovery.

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56 min
October 09 Season 2 Update: Curtis Flowers Has Died
We received tragic news this week from Winona, Mississippi. Curtis Flowers was found dead in his home at age fifty-six.
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9 min
October 06 The Journey, Episode 4: The Courts
One of the surrogates secretly takes home the baby she carried. And, in an unprecedented circumstance, it seems like she might have the chance to keep her.

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56 min
September 29 The Journey, Episode 3: The Industry
It takes a village to create such a large family. Ava uncovers how the stunning lack of regulation in the surrogacy industry enabled the couple’s plans.

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59 min
September 22 The Journey, Episode 2: Intended Parents
Ava investigates what is going on inside the Arcadia mansion. What is the couple actually up to? And why do they want so many kids?

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59 min
September 15 The Journey, Episode 1: Gifts
A woman in Texas agrees to carry a child for a wealthy couple in California. She thinks she’s helping a family in need. Then she becomes a whistle-blower.

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1 hr
September 08 Trailer: The Journey
Why did a mysterious couple collect babies in a Los Angeles mansion? A five-part series from In the Dark, hosted by the New Yorker staff writer Ava Kofman, investigates.

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3 min
November 25, 2025 Blood Relatives, Episode 6
Jeremy Bamber has a new opportunity to clear his name. But will the British justice system acknowledge that it might have gotten this famous case wrong?

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47 min
November 18, 2025 Blood Relatives, Episode 5
A puzzling clue leads Heidi to a new witness. His story about a phone call made from inside Whitehouse Farm on the morning of the crime threatens the entire case against Jeremy Bamber.

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41 min

About In The Dark

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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 in 2024, it released “The Runaway Princesses,” a four-part series that asks why the women in Dubai’s royal family keep trying to run away. Season 3, released in 2024, asked why no one was punished for the killings of twenty-five civilians in Haditha, Iraq.