Serial

Serial

By Serial Productions & The New York TimesSociety & CultureNewsTrue Crime
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    18th

    on True Crime

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    Followers

  • Typical duration

    45 min

    per episode

  • If it hooks

    67%

    finish an episode

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Serial episodes

  • METRO - Heavy is the Head that Refuses to Share the Crown

    In New York, the competition is famously brutal. Even if you get to the top, you have to fight to stay there. In this episode, Sarah Koenig looks at two battles for control: one, on a small college campus; the other, inside the city’s biggest political party.

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    50 min
  • METRO - Karat and Schtick

    TraxNYC, a store in New York’s diamond district, doubles their business in the wake of a video depicting the store’s owner in a full-on brawl with a rival jeweler. But Sarah Koenig wants to know: At TraxNYC, how much is real and how much is for show?

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    41 min
  • Special Preview: METRO with Sarah Koenig - Ep. 1

    In this first episode of the new podcast “METRO with Sarah Koenig,” Sarah goes on a whirlwind tour of New York City to find out what New Yorkers are worrying about. Crime? Sure. The new mayor? Yes. Their weak, little handshakes? All the time.

    To learn more about upcoming episodes of METRO and get a look behind the scenes, find us on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook by searching “Serial Productions”.

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    18 min
  • The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 5

    Days before the execution, the defense team scrambles to respond to an unexpected ruling, while the lead lawyer makes what may be his final visit to David Wood on death row. Everyone waits to find out Wood’s fate.

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    40 min
  • The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 4

    To justify sentencing David Wood to death, prosecutors argued that he was a convicted rapist turned serial killer. And yet, Wood has insisted all along that isn’t true. We head to death row to hear him tell us why. But not before a victim of his earlier crimes has her say about the kind of person she believes he is.

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    Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at [email protected]

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    31 min
  • The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 3

    In the final weeks before the execution date, the defense team has to decide just how far it’s willing to push people to save David Wood’s life. The team’s deliberations lead to a key witness on his deathbed … and the mother of one of the Desert Killer’s victims.

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    44 min
  • The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 2

    The way the state constructed the case, there’s no one big shiny piece of evidence for the defense to knock down. Instead, there are a million little threads to pull at. With less than two months until the execution, the lawyers comb through the evidence one last time, and a new witness offers unexpected revelations.

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    Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at [email protected]

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    46 min
  • The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 1

    In 1992, David Wood became El Paso’s most notorious convicted serial killer. He has been on death row ever since. More than 30 years later, his lawyers have just a few months  to argue his innocence and stop his execution.

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    42 min
  • The Last 12 Weeks - Trailer

    In 1992, David Wood was convicted of murdering young women and girls and burying them in the desert outside El Paso. He has been on death row ever since. “The Last 12 Weeks” takes you behind the scenes as a capital defense team races against the clock to stop an execution 30 years in the making.

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    3 min
  • The Idiot - Chapter 5

    Allen will almost certainly be released in a few years. What should M.’s family do with a guy who refuses to own up to his own crime? Can he be re-integrated into the family? Should he be?

    While M. has grown increasingly compassionate toward Allen, they learn their family has been moving in the opposite direction. Meanwhile, Priscilla has been trying to make a life without Allen. But Allen’s mom has other plans.

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    To learn more about upcoming episodes of METRO and get a look behind the scenes, find us on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook by searching “Serial Productions”.

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    29 min

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