Bowe Bergdahl Makes His Case On The Podcast 'Serial'

The Atlantic: Bowe Bergdahl Makes His Case on Serial

The army sergeant, who returned to the U.S. in a heavily criticized prisoner swap last year, is the focus of the popular podcast’s second season.

On the inaugural season of the true-crime podcast Serial, the host and This American Life producer Sarah Koenig turned the case of Adnan Syed, a young man who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend in 2000, from an obscure Maryland criminal footnote into a pop-culture phenomenon.

After all the recaps, thinkpieces, and backlashes against the podcast’s popularity, two questions remained: Was Syed really innocent? And how could Serial possibly match the intrigue and popularity of its first season?

The first question is currently being meted out in the appeals process with no small debit owed to the podcast. On Thursday, we came closer to an answer to the second question with the release of Serial’s second season.

WNU Editor: Good grief .... In new 'Serial' podcast, Bowe Bergdahl says he likened himself to Jason Bourne (Washington Post).

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