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Blood delivers oxygen to our tissues. It fights off infections. It courses through our veins. But can it help us catch a murderer? A little-known arm of forensic science, known as bloodstain pattern analysis, believes it can. On this week’s episode, Pamela Colloff, a senior reporter at ProPublica and writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine, takes us through her investigation into the case of Joe Bryan, a high school principal serving 99 years in prison for the murder of his wife. His conviction was based largely on expert testimony surrounding bloodstain patterns prosecutors argued placed Joe at the scene of the crime.
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House of Grendel (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 3.0
FasterFasterBrighter (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Slow Driver (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Castillo (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Eleven (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Gaddy (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Plaster Combo (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Lowbrow (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Lacquer Groove (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Tessa Weinberg reported this episode. IRE Editorial Director Sarah Hutchins edits the podcast. We are recorded in the studios of KBIA at the University of Missouri.
After Hurricane Harvey devastated homes and businesses in southeast Texas, construction workers began the long process of rebuilding. But when payday came, some found their checks were short or that they didn’t get one at all. An investigation from The Dallas Morning News and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting found that Texas officials did little to protect workers, both legal and undocumented, from wage theft. On this episode, reporter James Barragán takes us through his investigation into worker exploitation after the storm.
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Great is the Contessa (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Cases to Rest (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Headlights/Mountain Road (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Wisteria (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Cloud Line (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Wax Paper Jewel (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Abby Ivory-Ganja reported this episode. Tessa Weinberg is our host. IRE Editorial Director Sarah Hutchins edits the podcast. We are recorded in the studios of KBIA at the University of Missouri.
Sometimes seeing is believing. But in Texas, at least, it’s not always that easy. Thanks to an obscure loophole in the Texas Public Information Act, law enforcement agencies can withhold evidence, including dash cam footage and recordings, if a suspect didn’t go through the court process. On this week’s episode, Josh Hinkle and Sarah Rafique of TV station KXAN discuss their investigation into the law’s unintended effects. Information in cases involving dead suspects — including deaths in police custody — can remain confidential, even to family of the deceased.
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Building the Sled (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 3.0
Roundpine (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
The Records (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Greyleaf Willow (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Slow Line Stomp (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Then A Gambling Problem (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Lamprey (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Tessa Weinberg reported this episode. IRE Editorial Director Sarah Hutchins edits the podcast. We are recorded in the studios of KBIA at the University of Missouri.
More than 1.4 million people in the U.S. alone have fallen victim to a mail scam centered around a psychic named Maria Duval. Officials around the world have tried to shutter the multimillion-dollar scheme with little success. It was unclear if the scam’s namesake was even a real person. So, CNN investigative reporters Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken decided to follow the fraud back to its source and uncover its leaders. Their reporting took them through a maze of shell companies, to a Brazilian surfing school and even the South of France.
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The Records (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Our Digital Compass (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Slow Line Stomp (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Sunday Lights (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Parisol (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Stately Shadows (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
The Confrontation (Podington Bear) / CC BY-NC 3.0
Julie Christie reported this episode. IRE Editorial Director Sarah Hutchins edits the podcast. Blake Nelson draws our episode art. We are recorded in the studios of KBIA at the University of Missouri.
We’ve often wondered what happens with the investigations featured on the podcast. So, we decided to check in with three newsrooms featured on previous episodes and find out. Brian Rosenthal will share the impact of his Houston Chronicle investigation into Texas special education. Journalists at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting share an exciting discovery about the identity of Mountain Jane Doe. And the Associated Press reporters behind the 2015 investigation “Seafood from Slaves” take us through their latest investigation.
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Algea Trio (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Great is the Contessa (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Jog to the Water (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
The Records (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Cloud Line (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Lakeside Path (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Rate Sheet (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Abby Ivory-Ganja reported this episode. Tessa Weinberg is our host. IRE Editorial Director Sarah Hutchins edits the podcast. We are recorded in the studios of KBIA at the University of Missouri. Special thanks to KERA in Dallas for use of their studio.
An anonymous tip led the Los Angeles Times to a shocking revelation about the University of Southern California’s medical school dean, an internationally renowned physician. Faculty and staff had complained for years about dean Carmen Puliafito’s conduct, but it wasn’t until the Times uncovered his secret drug use and partying that he was removed from the university. On this week’s episode, Paul Pringle of the L.A. Times takes us through his investigation into the dean’s double life.
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Noe Noe (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Club Count (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Circle Deserrat (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
A Certain Lightness (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Faithless Constellation (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Seamless (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
FasterFasterBrighter (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Taylor Blatchford reported this episode. Tessa Weinberg is our host. IRE Editorial Director Sarah Hutchins edits the podcast. Blake Nelson draws our episode art. We are recorded in the studios of KBIA at the University of Missouri.
February 14, 2018 started out as a relatively calm day for Florida’s Sun Sentinel newsroom. Then, Nikolas Cruz walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with a semiautomatic rifle. Before the day was done, 17 people would be dead and 17 more would be wounded in one of the deadliest school shootings in modern American history. On this week’s episode, reporters Megan O’Matz and Brittany Wallman discuss how they investigated Cruz’s background amid the chaos of breaking news. Interviews, leaked documents and records requests revealed that officials had been warned of the shooter’s troubled past.
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Kalsted (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Tyrano Theme (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Slow Dial (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Warm Fingers (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Low Light Switch (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Tessa Weinberg reported this episode. IRE Editorial Director Sarah Hutchins edits the podcast. Blake Nelson draws our episode art. We are recorded in the studios of KBIA at the University of Missouri.
If you’re walking down the street in San Francisco, it’s impossible to ignore. On any given day there are nearly 7,500 homeless people on the city’s streets. It’s an issue many of America’s largest cities are struggling to keep up with. But some have found a cheap solution to reduce their homeless populations: one-way bus tickets out of town. On this week’s episode, we talk with The Guardian’s Alastair Gee and Julia Carrie Wong about their 18-month nationwide investigation that revealed the extent to which cities were abandoning their homeless.
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Vernouillet (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
El-Tajo (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Fifteen-Street (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Ultima-Thule (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Feathersoft (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
KeoKeo (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Gaddy (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Myrian (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Villano (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Tessa Weinberg reported this episode. IRE Editorial Director Sarah Hutchins edits the podcast. Blake Nelson draws our episode art. We are recorded in the studios of KBIA at the University of Missouri.
If someone dies under suspicious circumstances, it’s a medical examiner’s job to figure out what happened. But in New Jersey, 40 years of neglect has made it difficult for forensic pathologists to do their jobs. The result: grieving families without answers and potentially innocent people behind bars. On this week’s episode, Stephen Sterling and Sean Sullivan of NJ Advance Media take us through their investigation into New Jersey’s broken system.
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KeoKeo (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Drifting Spade (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Line-Exchange (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Thread of Clouds (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Ultima-Thule (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Waterbourne (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Abby Ivory-Ganja reported this episode. Tessa Weinberg is our host. IRE Editorial Director Sarah Hutchins edits the podcast. Blake Nelson draws our episode art. We are recorded in the studios of KBIA at the University of Missouri.
A 1982 Virginia law meant to reduce recidivism had a pretty simple concept: Three strikes and you’re out. Or, in prison terms, you’re in for good. On this week’s episode, we talk with Virginian-Pilot reporter Tim Eberly about his three-month investigation into the law. Tim interviewed 41 “three-strikers” and found that the majority had never been to prison before and hadn’t harmed anyone in their crimes, and for that, they were serving more time than many murderers. Hear how Tim’s reporting could change the lives of hundreds of inmates affected by the law.
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Springtime (Podington Bear) / CC BY-NC 3.0
Lumber Down (Blue Dot Sessions) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Clair De Lune (Felt Piano, Rhodes, and Drum Machine Arr.) (Podington Bear) / CC BY-NC 3.0
Relinquish (Podington Bear) / CC BY-NC 3.0
Down and Around (Podington Bear) / CC BY-NC 3.0
Downtown (Podington Bear) / CC BY-NC 3.0
Tessa Weinberg reported this episode. IRE Editorial Director Sarah Hutchins edits the podcast. Blake Nelson draws our episode art. We are recorded in the studios of KBIA at the University of Missouri.
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