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125 episodes
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Date created
2014/09/11
Latest episode
2026/06/18
Average duration
30 min.
Release period
17 days
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Our newest podcast, “The Preventionist” is out now. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts. Serial Productions makes narrative podcasts that have transformed the medium. Sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter to find out about new shows, get behind the scenes stories, and see photos and videos you can’t see on a podcast. To get full access to Serial Productions shows, and to other New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts. Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at [email protected] "Serial" began in 2014 as a spinoff of the public radio show "This American Life." In 2017, we formed Serial Productions when we launched the podcast “S-Town.” Since then, Serial Productions has produced every season of “Serial” along with shows like “Nice White Parents,” “The Trojan Horse Affair,” “The Coldest Case in Laramie,” “The Retrievals” and more. In 2020, we joined the New York Times Company. Our shows have reached many millions of listeners and have won nearly every major journalism award for audio, including the first-ever Peabody Award given to a podcast.
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The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 5
2026/06/18
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.
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The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 4
2026/06/18
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 earlier crimes has her say about the kind of person she believes he is.
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The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 3
2026/06/18
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 Killer’s victims.
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The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 2
2026/06/18
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 evidence one last time, and a new witness offers unexpected revelations.
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The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 1
2026/06/18
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.
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The Last 12 Weeks - Trailer
2026/06/16
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 clock to stop an execution 30 years in the making.
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The Idiot - Chapter 5
2026/03/26
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, they learn their family has been moving in the opposite direction. Meanwhile, Priscilla has been trying to make a life without Allen. But Allen’s mom has other plans.
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The Idiot - Chapter 4
2026/03/26
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 believe everything Allen says, but over the course of their conversations, M. comes to feel for their cousin. And they think they understand what drove him to go so far.
Our newest podcast, “The Idiot” is out now. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts.
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The Idiot - Chapter 3
2026/03/26
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 star witness, but his attempts to defend himself fall flat in court. M. begins to wonder why they loved seeing Allen humiliated on the stand.
Our newest podcast, “The Idiot” is out now. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts.
To get full access to this and other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts.
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The Idiot - Chapter 2
2026/03/26
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 Priscilla’s two-year odyssey, a journey that includes surviving a brutal attack and shocking arrests in Zimbabwe, only to reach the U.S. and have Allen take the boy again.
Our newest podcast, “The Idiot” is out now. Search for it wherever you get your podcasts.
To get full access to this and other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts.
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The Idiot - Chapter 1
2026/03/26
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’s home in Cape Cod with his mother and 5-year-old son. He says he has separated from his wife, whom he has left behind in Moscow. M. suspects this could be a kidnapping, but their family seems to disagree.
But finally Allen does something so bad, even M.’s family can’t ignore it.
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The Idiot - Trailer
2026/03/19
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 Allen as a fool, a pompous ‘international businessman’ who bragged about shady deals. But then Allen is arrested for trying to put a hit out on his ex-wife, and M. cannot wrap their head around the news. He’s just an idiot, right? Not a would-be murderer?
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The Preventionist - Ep. 1
2025/10/30
The story of how this extraordinary situation in the Lehigh Valley came to light — because it almost didn’t.
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The Preventionist - Ep. 3
2025/10/30
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.
The Preventionist - Ep. 2
2025/10/30
One pediatrician’s path to Pennsylvania, and the rise of a powerful new field in child medicine.
Podcast reviews
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Ron Vodka 2026/09/22
Disappointment Warning
Are you looking for a true crime podcast in which a gutsy and determined investigative journalist searching for the truth saves an innocent man from d...
boxofoddities2 2026/09/17
5 Stars
Only for season 1. Will there ever be another good season? Probably not.
RSEUPMDMI 2026/09/14
No Journalistic Standards
The Preventionist torpedoed any journalistic credibility Serial had.
Xstarbursts 2026/09/09
Season 1: No care for the victim
Sloppy writing, research, and weirdly enamored by a charismatic murderer. Awful!!
MoidaMittens 2026/09/04
Unsubscribing because of The Preventionist
I wonder if, looking back, they would do The Preventionist season differently. The fall from grace into a style of journalism that doesn’t cite a sing...
iLaurel16 2026/08/30
Season 14 is horribly inaccurate
The hosts of this particular season. Maybe it’s Dana? Do a horrible job here. There is so much of an agenda and true lack of knowledge in the medical ...
Chupacabra83 2026/08/30
Waste of time
Just a teaser episode then you have o pay a subscription to hear the rest of the story
DE30222906 2026/08/16
Greedy
I can’t believe this is behind a paywall. That is so far from the intent of the original Serial it’s ridiculous
Exhibitck 2026/08/08
STOP MAKING US PAY
Stop making a subscribe to everything
seflou 2026/08/07
Unsubscribe
Unsubscribing because of “The Preventionist” - so biased and lousy reporting
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