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Jul 10, 2025 - Some people say antidepressants left them with debilitating symptoms for years — even decades — after going off the medications. Their ranks are growing...

May 19, 2021 - The abduction of Jacob Wetterling, which made parents more vigilant and led to the first national requirement that states track sex offenders via registries,...

APM Reports strives to raise awareness, trigger debate and prompt positive change via non-partisan, independent investigative and documentary journalism.

APM Reports Documentaries podcast on demand - The documentary unit of APM Reports (formerly American RadioWorks) has produced more than 140 programs on topics...

Jul 23, 2025 - The school reform program, first developed in the 1980s, has been declining in popularity for the past two decades — even though a mountain of research shows...

Jan 7, 2022 - DNA analysis has come to be one of the most relied-upon tools in forensic criminology. Here's a look at when it's simple and when it's not.

Jan 7, 2022 - His kidnapping on Oct. 22, 1989, became a national spectacle and led to a 27-year investigation.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 just months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Some 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forced...

Nov 4, 2025 - The GOP activist, who has touted election fraud conspiracies, came forward after trying for years to remain anonymous. The U.S. Supreme Court declined his case.

Jun 8, 2024 - The police department has struggled to solve homicides, partly due to shoddy detective work, staffing shortages and eroding community trust.

Oct 26, 2021 - They don't happen often, but when they do, child abductions by strangers can capture Americans' attention like few other crimes. A look at notorious...

A podcast about education, opportunity, and how people learn.

Dec 8, 2025

Aug 15, 2025 - Alaska’s Legislature adjourned last week without addressing an issue that many residents of coastal, Native villages see as urgent: expanding access to...

May 19, 2021 - The Wetterling abduction story kept getting bigger as the case — and Jacob's sweet smiling face — served as a conduit for public fear and grief....

Jan 7, 2022 - He called 911, then gradually was pulled into massive investigation.

Jan 7, 2022 - 'What was done was what we could do'

Jan 7, 2022 - Wetterling investigators used hypnosis to prod memories, but some experts fear the process can cause people to remember things that didn't happen. So while...

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Half a century later, King remains one of the most vivid symbols of hope for racial unity in America....

We investigate the case of Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Winona, Mississippi, who was tried six times for the same crime. Flowers spent more than 20 years...

Jan 7, 2022 - Reporter Madeleine Baran, host of the podcast In the Dark, writes the story of how the 1989 abduction of Jacob Wetterling in central Minnesota baffled local,...

May 19, 2021

Feb 7, 2025 - Instead of regulating fertilizer, Iowa backs a voluntary program that has little impact.

Oct 26, 2021 - More reserved than his wife, Jacob's father struggled with the investigation and turned to psychics.

The investigation into the abduction of Jacob Wetterling yielded no answers for 27 years. We investigate how law enforcement mishandled one of the most...

Oct 26, 2021 - The woman Patty Wetterling didn't want to see.

Listen to APM Reports Documentaries on Pandora - The documentary unit of APM Reports (formerly American RadioWorks) has produced more than 140 programs on...

May 19, 2021 - The closest you can get to a conversation with Jacob Wetterling about his abduction is to talk to Jared Scheierl. Scheierl was walking home from an ice skating...

May 19, 2021 - When Jacob Wetterling was taken, authorities launched what would turn into one of the largest searches for any missing person in the history of the United...

Jan 7, 2022 - Investigators in Jacob Wetterling's disappearance used lie detectors "a lot," one of them says. But some research suggests they're not much...

Oct 26, 2021 - More than anyone else, she has been the face and voice of the search for Jacob.

May 23, 2025 - U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns ruled that the lawsuit against educational publisher Heinemann and three of its top authors was invalidated by a...

Jan 7, 2022 - He is convinced the Stearns County Sheriff's Office hasn't looked hard enough for his son, who disappeared 14 years ago.

Dec 2, 2025 - At least 26 states have passed laws about how schools teach reading since APM Reports’ Sold a Story podcast began in 2022. But proponents of the disproven...

Jun 18, 2020 - The sentencing of Danny Heinrich on Nov. 21, 2016, brought to a close the 27-year investigation into the abduction and murder of Jacob Wetterling. But it...

Jan 7, 2022 - Abducted months before Jacob, he tried for years to find his kidnapper.

Aug 21, 2025 - The Trump administration tried to kill the largest reading experiment ever funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm — just months before...

Hosted by Keegan-Michael Key, Roxane Gay, Issa Rae, Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton.

APM Reports produces a variety of podcasts, including Sold a Story, Sent Away, Educate, and an annual slate of documentaries.

Jan 7, 2022 - At a plea hearing on Sept. 6, 2016, Danny James Heinrich admitted kidnapping, sexually assaulting and killing Jacob Wetterling on Oct. 22, 1989.

Jun 13, 2025 - The bill’s passage comes a year after APM Reports revealed that dozens of hospitals violated the 49-year-old law.

Jan 7, 2022 - The police twice used the label "person of interest" in the Wetterling case. It's an imprecise term that stops short of calling someone a suspect...

Jan 7, 2022 - Long known to investigators looking into the Wetterling abduction, he originally denied connection to the case but now admits that he murdered Jacob and...

Jan 7, 2022 - He was convicted of sexually assaulting four boys around the time Jacob was abducted.

Jan 7, 2022 - Stearns County sheriff's office transcript of 911 call from Merlyn Jerzak, a neighbor of Patty and Jerry Wetterling. His daughter, who had been babysitting...

Jan 7, 2022 - He was detained in connection with the 2012 shooting of a Cold Spring police officer, but later declared not a suspect.

Jan 7, 2022 - Early on, investigators circulated a number of police sketches, hoping they would generate better leads in Jacob Wetterling's abduction. But sketches can...