On 22 October 1989, in Minnesota, an 11-year-old boy, Jacob Wetterling, was taken by a man, in front of other children, and never seen again. For a start, it focuses on a child abduction. This is a podcast about an unsolved US murder case that took place in the late 1980s, painstakingly pieced together today by a female investigative reporter… It’s different to Serial in many ways, of course. The closest has been the TV equivalent Making a Murderer.īut now we have In the Dark. Nothing has quite captured listeners’ imaginations in the same way, however. More obviously, there has been an upsurge in true crime stories, both shows like Criminal, which looks at a different case every week, and podcasts that unpick old or cold cases ( Untold, LBC’s What Happened to Vishal?), to varying success. The clever, ruminative tone of presenter Sarah Koenig runs through many US podcasts, though perhaps it always did. It’s interesting to note its influence, though. I don’t like to mention the S word any more when it comes to podcasts – S meaning Serial (series 1) – as we’ve all moved on now, haven’t we? We’re happy living in our post-S world.
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