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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's award-winning podcast "Breakdown," tells deeply human stories about the Georgia justice system. Season 11 explores how a young military couple found themselves at the center of something neither expected. Something terrible. Something… criminal.

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Apr 28, 2026

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S02, Episode 12: From the gutter to the homicide file 17.07.2025

Prosecutors open a new week of testimony by calling one woman after another to the witness stand. Harris pursued all of them – including two teenagers – over sexually explicit online chats. Finally, lead detective Phil Stoddard takes the stand and prosecutors play the detective’s interview of Harris at the police station the day of Cooper’s death. They also play the recording of Harris’ emotionall...

S02, Episode 5: A jury of his peers, with preconceived notions 17.07.2025

Jury selection, which may be close to conclusion, has taken an interesting turn. Nearly a third of the jurors qualified for the final panel – the one from which the 12 jurors and a number of alternates will be chosen – say they believe Justin Ross Harris is guilty.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S02, Episode 7 - Harris trial moves to Georgia's Golden Isles 17.07.2025

The Ross Harris trial heads to Brunswick after a four-month hiatus. What sort of jury will Judge Mary Staley Clark find on Georgia’s coast? Here’s why the trial’s new venue could be called a prosecutor’s dream. To learn more about this case, visit AJCBreakdown.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S02, Episode 5.5: A change of venue 17.07.2025

The defense in the hot-car murder trial of Justin Ross Harris surprises everyone by filing for a change of venue almost at the of jury selection. But the judge has her own surprise: she grants it.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S02, Episode6: A sudden change of venue 17.07.2025

The Harris trial was just days away from opening statements and testimony, when the proceedings ground to a sudden and unexpected halt.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S02 Episode 4 - Deciding the case before it begins? 17.07.2025

The most important moments of the Justin Ross Harris trial may be unfolding right now - even before testimony begins or the lawyers ever state their cases. Welcome to jury selection, where cases are often won or lost.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S03, Episode 6: Banishment 17.07.2025

A judge in Georgia signs off on a plea deal for Dr. Narendra K. Gupta, who admits to three counts of sexual battery against patients. No jail time, but he agrees to leave the country, surrender his license and never practice medicine again. Well, two out of three . . .  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S02 Episode 2: An air-tight case against Justin Ross Harris? 17.07.2025

The state’s murder case against Harris is formidable. The lead police investigator has already testified at length in pretrial hearings: some key testimony seems utterly damning, but some seems totally wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S02 Episode 1 - Death in a Hot Car: Mistake or Murder? 17.07.2025

The evidence against Justin Ross Harris, accused of murder in the hot-car death of his son, and how it just seems to keep piling up.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S02 Episode 3 - Leanna Harris: Once implicated, never charged 17.07.2025

Cobb police insinuated a number of times that Leanna (now Leanna Taylor, since her divorce came through in March) might have helped her husband plan the murder of their son. But those claims faded and then all but disappeared. Taylor was never charged with any crime and is expected to be a witness for the defense in Ross Harris’s murder trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...

S03, Episode 3: Compulsion 17.07.2025

Why would a doctor jeopardize his career by subjecting patients, nurses, even office staff, to repeated sexual abuse? In many cases, the physician doesn’t recognize boundaries because he doesn’t believe they apply to him.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S03, Episode 5: Punishment 17.07.2025

In late 2011, Dr. Narendra K. Gupta stood before a Fulton County judge and pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of sexual battery. The conditions of his sentence were unusual: He didn’t have to go to jail. He did have to leave the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S03, Episode 2: Prey 17.07.2025

Dr. Narendra K. Gupta had a history of allegations of attacking and harassing nurses. Instead of reporting him to police, the medical community shielded him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S03, Episode 4: Arrested 17.07.2025

An Ohio doctor has left his practice in the small city of Lima and moved to Atlanta. Also left behind in Ohio: the lawsuits and complaints that piled up against him, many of which were related to sexual abuse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S04, Ep 7: Devonia Inman is a free man 17.07.2025

After 23 years in prison for a wrongful murder conviction, Devonia Inman is finally free. Here are the improbable events that led to his release, and what Inman has to say about his experience. Plus, the new Cook County district attorney doesn't mince words about how the case went to trial two decades ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S04, Ep6: The murdered woman 17.07.2025

Before she was killed that night at the Taco Bell in Adel, Donna Brown was a hardworking restaurant manager. a beloved sister and a completely devoted mother. And if we are to seek justice for Devonia Inman, we must also seek it for Donna Brown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S03 Episode 1: Predator, M.D. 17.07.2025

Breakdown: Predator, M.D., follows the fortunes of Dr. Gupta and many of the 18 women who claim the doctor abused them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S04, Ep5: Yet another bombshell 17.07.2025

In the hearing on Devonia Inman's "extraordinary motion" for a new trial, another giant piece of the case against Inman seems to crumble and fall away. Did Inman commit the murder of which he was convicted? Was he even there when it happened?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S04, Ep2: The prosecution 17.07.2025

The jury that hears the case against Devonia Inman must go through the peculiar process of becoming "death qualified." Meanwhile, some key witnesses take the stand and say they really didn't see what they told police they saw.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S04, Ep3: The mask 17.07.2025

Did somebody else commit the murder of which Devonia Inman was convicted? He has always said so, Bill Rankin talks to witnesses who saw completely different things and zeroes in on a mask that police said was used in the crime. It wasn't a ski mask, says Rankin, it was an up-to-no-good mask. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S04, Ep4: Burying the lede? 17.07.2025

If Hercules Brown committed the murder of Taco Bell's night manager in 1998, then the authorities have put the wrong man, Devonia Inman, behind bars. But it gets worse than that. Much worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S05, Ep10.5 The jury is out 17.07.2025

The jury in the Tex McIver murder case gets the case and deliberates, and deliberates, and deliberates. One of the last things the jury asked for was permission to see, for a second time, the SUV in which Diane McIver was shot, AND they ask to take the .38 revolver with them to the car. So some of them sat where Tex sat and pulled the trigger that Tex pulled.  Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

S04, Ep1: The crime 17.07.2025

A vicious murder on a hot South Georgia night outside the local Taco Bell. The police build  an impressive case against young Devonia Inman. Now it's 20 years later, and a law professor in Atlanta is determined to take that case apart and win Inman's freedom.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

S05, Ep11; The verdict on Tex McIver 17.07.2025

The jury in the McIver murder case finally comes back -- after four days -- and delivers a confusing verdict that appears to say McIver intended to shoot his wife, Diane, but didn't intend to kill her. The closing arguments, four separate addresses by some of the best lawyers in Georgia, were every bit the spectacle that you'd imagine.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...

S05, Ep9 The cops vs. the DA 17.07.2025

The prosecution puts up the chief homicide investigator in the Tex McIver murder case and then tries its best to show how deficient the police investigation was. Normally, the district attorney and the police are on the same side. But not this time. The police charged McIver with involuntary manslaughter, but the DA went with malice murder -- convinced that the Atlanta Police Department was lettin...

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