In the Dark

APM Reports' In the Dark won a Peabody Award for Season 2, which investigated Curtis Flowers — a Black man tried six times for the same crime in Mississippi by the same prosecutor. Reporter Madeleine Baran's investigation was so thorough that it was cited by the US Supreme Court when they overturned Flowers' conviction in 2019. Season 1 examined the abduction of Jacob Wetterling, leading to a confession after 27 years. This is investigative journalism that changes outcomes — the podcast as accountability mechanism.