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Season 4: When Rhoda Nathan's lifeless body was discovered in her hotel room, it was assumed she'd had a heart attack. The autopsy proved otherwise: Nathan, 67, had been viciously beaten to death, punched so hard by her assailant that two of her teeth had been knocked out. Days later, a hotel employ...
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Coming Sept. 3: Binge Untested for free!
On Sept. 3, you’ll be able to binge the entire season of USA TODAY's new show "Untested" – for free. As the story unfolds, you’ll get an insider’s vie...
Introducing Untested
A detective’s dogged pursuit of justice links two rape accusations 800 miles apart, and puts her on the path to catch a sexual predator. She’ll bring...
Coming Soon: Untested
He terrorized women. He slipped through the cracks. But one detective refused to give up. Untested, an exclusive true crime podcast series from WITNES...
Introducing Murder on Music Row
From The Tennessean, Murder on Music Row is an eight-part true crime investigative podcast and an eight-part narrative series that will be released ea...
Introducing Where Secrets Go to Die
A downstate man moves to Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula, then vanishes. Suspicions spread from the neighbor he was staying with, to the girlfriend...
Introducing Unsolved, Season 4
Season four of Unsolved delves into the disappearance of Alexis Patterson, a 7-year-old girl who disappeared on her way to school in 2002. At first, t...
Chapter 8: A new trial
After spending nearly three decades on Ohio's death row, Elwood Jones finally got a new day in court -- which resulted in his conviction being overtur...
The Homegoing
Seven years have passed since DNA evidence led to William Virgil’s release from prison. A lot can change in seven years — and yet, so much can stay ma...
Chapter 7: What Now?
As adamant as police and prosecutors are that they properly handled the case against murder suspect Elwood Jones, a judge is expected to weigh whether...
Chapter 6: Deserving of Death?
Hamilton County, Ohio, is known nationwide as having one of the highest capital punishment rates per capita – and a recent 25-year study shows that ra...
Chapter 5: The (Supposed) Confession
More than a decade after Elwood Jones was convicted of killing Rhoda Nathan, he learned that a woman had stepped forward saying she knew who the real...
Chapter 4: If Not Elwood, Who?
While investigators testified at trial that Elwood Jones was always their best and only real suspect in the 1994 slaying of Rhoda Nathan, the police f...
Chapter 3: The Investigation
Investigating any crime scene requires finesse, but in the case of Rhoda Nathan’s 1994 beating death, at least some of the detectives arriving at the...
Chapter 2: The A-Hole
The prosecutor handling the case against Elwood Jones had some choice words to describe the suspect on national television. In this episode, we explor...
Chapter 1: The Crime
When Elaine Shub opened the door to the hotel room she was sharing with her best friend of 48 years, she saw such a gruesome sight that she collapsed...
Introducing Accused Season 4: The Impending Execution of Elwood Jones
When Rhoda Nathan's lifeless body was discovered in her hotel room, it was assumed she'd had a heart attack. The autopsy proved otherwise: Nathan, 67,...
Quick update & introduction
Work on Accused was sidelined by the pandemic but is getting back on track. Also, Amber introduces "Crimes of the Centuries."
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Introducing The Sneak: Murders at Whiskey Creek
How did Jack Roland Murphy go from world-champion surfer to notorious jewel thief? How did it all go wrong and end in at least two murders in the murk...
BONUS EPISODE: Lessons Learned
Though officials with the Fernald uranium plant lied and covered up the danger their workers faced, Fernald is actually held up as a role model for ot...
Chapter 8: The nuclear wrap-up
Long after David Bocks’ children and grandchildren are dead, the legacy of his employer will remain, encased in concrete and buried deep beneath the e...
Chapter 7: A variance in views
Two coworkers tell police that David Bocks seemed depressed on his last day of work. Or is it just one?
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Chapter 6: Last day laid bare
David Bocks’ final shift is pieced together through police statements and time cards.
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Chapter 5: The king of conspiracies
In the 1990s, an indie reporter tried to expose Fernald and link managers to David Bocks’ death. His theories sounded outrageous, but some of them pro...
BONUS EPISODE: Artistic Aftershocks
A look at how the atomic bombs that ended World War II left an imprint on pop culture that lasts to this day.
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Chapter 4: The truth about Fernald
While managers and government officials outwardly assured Fernald workers that everything was safe at the plant, internal documents show many knew tha...
Chapter 3: The Cold War creeps
As the world was embroiled in a race to stockpile nuclear weapons, little towns throughout the U.S. became hubs for cancer-linked plants.
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Chapter 2: Testing the suicide theory
Police dismissed the 1984 disappearance of David Bocks as a suicide, but the physics of the death make that theory seem unlikely. (Link updated Jan. 2...
Chapter 1: Disappearing dad
A 39-year-old father of three goes to work and disappears. That’s strange enough. Adding in where he works makes this case more than strange. It’s the...
Introducing Accused Season 3
Accused Season 3 returns on December 3rd.
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Accused recommends The City
Accused Host Amber Hunt details where you can find Season 3 of Accused soon. Another great podcast from the USA TODAY Network, The City, is available...
Aftermath: I wasn't going to leave her
Best friends Carmen Alegria and Angelica Soto did everything together — and that includes saving each other from a gunman on a rampage.
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Aftermath: Some people have a spirit of resilience
From the Accused podcast team, Aftermath is an episodic look at survivors of gun violence. Episodd 1 focuses on neglectful parents and neighbors who l...
Coming Tuesday, May 22: Aftermath, a new podcast from the Accused team
Chapter 8: After Innocence
Since his release from prison, William Virgil’s life has been on hold. So has Retha Welch’s murder investigation.
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Chapter 7: The battle continues
William Virgil finds dedicated allies in the Kentucky Innocence Project, fierce opposition in the Commonwealth’s Attorney, and hope in new DNA testing...
Chapter 6: If not Virgil, Who?
Newport police overlooked several interesting people worthy of scrutiny in this murder case, including one man they’d encountered themselves.
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Chapter 5: The lie
After years of insisting a key witness perjured himself, William Virgil finds proof — but does the truth matter?
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Chapter 4: The missing witness
It appears more than one of the witnesses in Retha Welch’s murder case didn’t come clean on the stand. Someone knew more than his testimony implied.
Chapter 3: The case unfolds
With physical evidence and eyewitnesses on their side, police begin compiling a case against William Virgil — but does it hold up under scrutiny?
Chapter 2: The hooded figure
Retha Welch’s boyfriend says he was mad enough to kill her the last time they were together — but he points police to a hooded figure in her hallway a...