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In 1999, Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Maryland, went missing. When her body was found a month later, Adnan Syed, her ex-boyfriend, was arrested and convicted of strangling her.

The true crime genre of podcasts has exploded since Serial broke through in 2014, with no signs of slowing down. From series ...

It is difficult to remember a time when podcasts did not rule the internet. Podcasting really took hold during the pandemic, for obvious reasons, and now it seems like there is a podcast for anything, ...

The legal battle over Adnan Syed’s conviction, scrutinized a decade ago in the hit podcast “Serial,” keeps twisting and turning, even after prosecutors freed him from more than 23 years in prison for ...