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Season 2 -
In May 2014, a U.S. Special Operations team in a Black Hawk helicopter landed in the hills of Afghanistan. Waiting for them were more than a dozen Taliban fighters and a tall American, who looked pale and out of sorts: Bowe Bergdahl. Bergdahl, a U.S. soldier, had been a prisoner of the Taliban for nearly five years, and now he was going home.
President Obama announced Bergdahl’s return in the Rose Garden, with the soldier's parents at his side. Bergdahl's hometown of Hailey, Idaho, planned a big celebration to welcome him back. But then, within days—within hours of his rescue, in fact—public reaction to his return flipped. People started saying Bergdahl shouldn’t be celebrated. Some of the soldiers from his unit called him a deserter, a traitor. They said he had deliberately walked off their small outpost in eastern Afghanistan and into hostile territory.
Hailey canceled its celebration. The army launched an investigation. Finally, in March, the military charged Bergdahl with two crimes, one of which carries the possibility of a life sentence. Through all of this, Bergdahl has been quiet. He hasn’t spoken to the press or done any interviews on TV. He’s been like a ghost at the center of a raucous fight.
Now, in Season Two, we get to hear what he has to say.
For this season, Sarah Koenig teams up with filmmaker Mark Boal and Page 1 to find out why one idiosyncratic guy decided to walk away, into Afghanistan, and how the consequences of that decision have spun out wider and wider. It’s a story that has played out in unexpected ways from the start. And it’s a story that’s still going on.
Episodes - All available on iTunes for free - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/serial/id917918570 or streamed at their website - http://serialpodcast.org/
Episodes release every wednesday.
Evidence referenced in each episode are in the links below.
Episode 1 - Dustwun (44 mins), 10th December
https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/1/dustwun
Episode 2 - THE GOLDEN CHICKEN (59 mins), 17th December
https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/2/ ... en-chicken
Episode 3 - ESCAPING (53 mins), 24th December
https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/3/escaping
Episode 4 - THE CAPTORS (45 mins), 7th January
https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/4/the-captors
Episode 5 - MEANWHILE, IN TAMPA (54 mins), 21st January
https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/5/ ... e-in-tampa
Episode 6 - 5 O'CLOCK SHADOW (1hr), 4th February
https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/6/5-oclock-shadow
Season 1 -
What is Season 1's case?
On January 13, 1999, a girl named Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland, disappeared. A month later, her body turned up in a city park. She'd been strangled. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. The case against him was largely based on the story of one witness, Adnan’s friend Jay, who testified that he helped Adnan bury Hae's body. But Adnan has always maintained he had nothing to do with Hae’s death. Some people believe he’s telling the truth. Many others don’t.
Sarah Koenig, who hosts Serial, first learned about this case more than a year ago. In the months since, she's been sorting through box after box (after box) of legal documents and investigators' notes, listening to trial testimony and police interrogations, and talking to everyone she can find who remembers what happened between Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee fifteen years ago. What she realized is that the trial covered up a far more complicated story, which neither the jury nor the public got to hear. The high school scene, the shifting statements to police, the prejudices, the sketchy alibis, the scant forensic evidence - all of it leads back to the most basic questions: How can you know a person’s character? How can you tell what they’re capable of? In Season One of Serial, she looks for answers.
Episodes - All available on iTunes for free - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/serial/id917918570 or streamed at their website - http://serialpodcast.org/
Expected to be about 12 episodes for Season 1. Episodes release every Thursday.
Evidence referenced in each episode are in the links below.
Episode 1 - The Alibi (53 mins), 3rd October
http://serialpodcast.org/season-one/1/the-alibi
Episode 2 - The Breakup (36 mins), 3rd October
http://serialpodcast.org/season-one/2/the-breakup
Episode 3 - Leakin Park (28 mins), 9th October
http://serialpodcast.org/season-one/3/leakin-park
Episode 4 - Inconsistences (34 mins), 16th October
http://serialpodcast.org/season-one/4/inconsistencies
Episode 5 - Route Talk (43 mins), 23rd October
http://serialpodcast.org/season-one/5/route-talk
Episode 6 - The Case Against Adnan Syed (43 mins), 30th October
http://serialpodcast.org/season-one/6/t ... adnan-syed
Episode 7 - The Opposite of the Prosecution (33 mins), 6th November
http://serialpodcast.org/season-one/7/t ... rosecution
Episode 8 - The Deal with Jay (44 mins), 13th November
http://serialpodcast.org/season-one/8/the-deal-with-jay
Episode 9 - To Be Suspected (48 mins), 20th November
http://serialpodcast.org/season-one/9/to-be-suspected
Episode 10 - The Best Defense is a Good Defense (54 mins), 4th December
http://serialpodcast.org/season-one/10/ ... od-defense
Episode 11 - Rumors (41mins), 11th December
http://serialpodcast.org/season-one/11/rumors
Episode 12: Finale - What We Know (55mins), 18th December
http://serialpodcast.org/season-one/12/what-we-know
SEASON ONE: UPDATE
DAY 01, ADNAN SYED’S HEARING (16 mins), 4th February 2016
https://serialpodcast.org/season-one/ad ... ds-hearing
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