In The Dark

S1 E7: This Quiet Place

Soon after the abduction and murder of Jacob Wetterling in 1989, Stearns County sheriff's investigators came face to face with his killer, Danny Heinrich, who would confess to the crime 27 years later. Then they let him go. It wasn't the first time that had happened in Stearns County.

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 Condé Nast. “The Runaway Princesses,” a four-part series that asks why the women in Dubai’s royal family keep trying to run away, came out in January. In the Dark is a two-time Peabody Award winner and, in 2019, became the first podcast to win a George Polk Award, one of the top honors in journalism. The program has also received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Share your thoughts on In The Dark. As a token of our appreciation, you will be eligible to enter a prize drawing up to $1,000 after you complete the survey. <a href="https://selfserve.decipherinc.com/survey/selfserve/222b/76152?pin=1&amp;uBRANDLINK=4&amp;uCHANNELLINK=2">https://selfserve.decipherinc.com/survey/selfserve/222b/76152?pin=1&amp;uBRANDLINK=4&amp;uCHANNELLINK=2</a>