

The duo say they documented various manipulations, distortions and justifications that they say produced a disparity between what people did and what they were punished for. For the latest season, Koenig and reporter Emmanuel Dzotsi - an Ohio native and former “This American Life” fellow - spent more than a year in the city, looking at small criminal cases like marijuana possession and disorderly conduct and more serious ones including felonies. Producers said they chose Cleveland because they were given an unusual level of access to record inside courtrooms, judges’ chambers, hallways and attorneys’ offices. Now, with season 3, “Serial” tells the stories of ordinary cases as they wind through the justice system in Cleveland. The first two seasons of “Serial” have been downloaded more than 340 million times. (The show led to a judge’s ruling granting Syed a retrial, which remains pending.) Season 2 of “Serial” documented the story of Bowe Bergdahl, a U.S. In the first season, Sarah Koenig narrated an investigation into the 2000 conviction of Adnan Syed for the murder of his girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, in Baltimore. When “Serial” first launched in 2014, the spinoff of NPR’s “This American Life” became an overnight podcasting success. Instead of telling a single story over the course of the show, as the first two seasons did, the third run will follow many different stories with some spanning two or even three episodes. 20, with subsequent episodes to be released weekly on Thursdays. The first two episodes of “Serial” season 3 will debut Sept. The team behind podcast hit “ Serial” are premiering the latest season of the investigative series - digging into the inner workings of Cleveland’s criminal-court system - later this month.
