“Murderville,” a seven-episode crime podcast investigating a series of gruesome murders and a wrongful conviction in the small Georgia town of Adel, will be available on all podcast platforms starting Thursday, Dec. 20. Based on exclusive reporting by award-winning Intercept journalists Jordan Smith and Liliana Segura, this case is also being reported as a four-part feature series on The Intercept.
According to the show’s producers, “Murderville” tells the story of what happens when law enforcement and state investigators rush to judgement and lock up their first suspect. In this case, the wrongly accused is a 20-year-old African American man named Devonia Tyrone Inman.
Shining an investigative light into rural Georgia, Smith and Segura expose the racial biases of a complex judicial system and reveal how being an outsider can get you locked up – with no chance for justice.
Starting December 20, all seven “Murderville” episodes will be released on a weekly basis in all major podcast platforms –– as well as on TheIntercept.com. Streaming links to all episodes are available upon request. The podcast was recently featured on Vulture’s notable podcasts and on a CBS News segment.
Jordan Smith is a state and national award-winning investigative journalist based in Austin, Texas. She has covered criminal justice for 20 years and, during that time, has developed a reputation as a resourceful and dogged reporter with a talent for analyzing complex social and legal issues. She is regarded as one of the best investigative reporters in Texas. A long-time staff writer for the Austin Chronicle, her work has also appeared in The Nation, the Crime Report, and Salon, among other places.
Liliana Segura is an award-winning investigative journalist covering the U.S. criminal justice system, with a longtime focus on harsh sentencing, the death penalty, and wrongful convictions. She was previously an Associate Editor at The Nation Magazine, where she edited a number of award-winning stories and earned a 2014 Media for a Just Society Award for her writing on prison profiteering. While at The Intercept, Segura has received the Texas Gavel Award in 2016 and, most recently, the 2017 Innocence Network Journalism Award for her investigations into convictions in Arizona and Ohio.
About The Intercept:
The Intercept, a publication of First Look Media, was launched in 2014 to provide an outlet for fearless, adversarial journalism. Intercept reporters have the editorial freedom to hold powerful institutions accountable, digging beneath official narratives to reveal the hidden truth. The Intercept’s award-winning coverage focuses on national security, politics, civil liberties, the environment, technology, criminal justice, media, and more. Regular contributors include co-founding editors Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill.
