ST. PAUL, Minn. — Nine months after being left in the dark by the parent company of Minnesota Public Radio, the award-winning true crime podcast “In the Dark” has found a new home with the New Yorker magazine and Conde Nast Entertainment.
Conde Nast announced this week that the staff of the St. Paul-based podcast — including co-creators Madeleine Baran and Samara Freemark — will initially work with the the New Yorker’s reporters and editors to produce and distribute the third season of “In the Dark” as part of the publisher’s expanding audio division. The podcast staff are likely to work on additional narrative series across the publisher’s magazine portfolio.
To date, “In the Dark” has produced two full series, the first based on the disappearance of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling in 1989 in St. Joseph, Minn., and the second centered on the murder case against Curtis Flowers, a Black man sentenced to die after being tried six times for the killings of four people at a Mississippi furniture store.
