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• 2026-06-18 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. To find out about new show Transcript →
• 2026-06-18 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 evide Transcript →
• 2026-06-18 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 Transcript →
• 2026-06-18 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 earli Transcript →
• 2026-06-18 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. To find out about new shows from Ser Transcript →
• 2026-06-16 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 clo Transcript →
• 2026-03-26 The Idiot - Chapter 1 For decades, M. simply disliked Allen. They saw him as a fool, a pompous “international businessman” who bragged about shady deals and drove fancy cars while living in Eastern Europe and Africa. But one day Allen suddenly shows up at their father’ Transcript →
• 2026-03-26 The Idiot - Chapter 2 M. seeks out Allen’s ex-wife, Priscilla, who tells her side of the story. It begins with a whirlwind romance but quickly turns to chart Allen’s betrayal: taking her son from Russia and stranding Priscilla and her daughter in Moscow. What follows is Transcript →
• 2026-03-26 The Idiot - Chapter 3 M. attends Allen’s trial in San Francisco. The FBI’s star witness, an agent who went by “David," plays his undercover recordings of Allen. They reveal how Allen’s scheme to deport Priscilla turned into a murder-for-hire plot. Allen is his own Transcript →
• 2026-03-26 The Idiot - Chapter 4 Allen finally agrees to talk … and talk and talk, for 35 hours of interviews. M. wants to understand Allen on his own terms, to try and figure out how this scion of bohemian intellectuals ended up hiring someone to kill his ex. It’s hard for M. to b Transcript →
• 2026-03-26 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, t Transcript →
• 2026-03-19 The Idiot - Trailer The New York Times writer M. Gessen is widely known for their award-winning writing about totalitarianism, terrorism and the erosion of human rights. Now, M. is examining a more personal target: their least favorite cousin, Allen. For decades, they saw Transcript →
• 2025-10-30 The Preventionist - Ep. 1 The story of how this extraordinary situation in the Lehigh Valley came to light — because it almost didn’t. Our newest podcast, “The Preventionist” is out now. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts. To get full access to this and other Transcript →
• 2025-10-30 The Preventionist - Ep. 2 One pediatrician’s path to Pennsylvania, and the rise of a powerful new field in child medicine. Transcript →
• 2025-10-30 The Preventionist - Ep. 3 What’s the harm of “better safe than sorry” in cases where abuse is ambiguous? One mother’s story is our answer to that question. Transcript →
• 2025-10-16 The Preventionist - Trailer In the summer of 2023, reporter Dyan Neary received a tip about a problematic doctor in Pennsylvania. Families were claiming that when they sought medical care for their children, this pediatrician falsely accused them of abuse, and their children were Transcript →
• 2025-08-07 The Retrievals S02 - Ep. 1 Clara is a labor and delivery nurse, so she has a pretty good idea of what to expect when she delivers her own twins at the same hospital where she works. But she wasn’t prepared for this. Our newest podcast, “The Retrievals, Season 2” is out now Transcript →
• 2025-08-06 The Retrievals S02 - Ep. 2 What went wrong with Clara’s delivery? And can Heather get doctors to talk about it? Transcript →
• 2025-08-07 The Retrievals S02 - Ep. 2 What went wrong with Clara’s delivery? And can Heather get doctors to talk about it? Our newest podcast, “The Retrievals, Season 2” is out now. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it here: lnk.to/retrievals2 To get full acce Transcript →
• 2025-08-07 The Retrievals S02 - Ep. 3 Pain during a cesarean section isn’t a new problem. But for a long time, it’s been a hidden one. In England, a patient named Susanna not only brings the problem to doctors’ attention, but also tries to solve it. Our newest podcast, “The Retriev Transcript →