Breakdown
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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S05. Ep7: Dani Jo testifies
The prosecution calls Dani Jo Carter -- the only witness to the shooting.
38 min
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S05, Ep8: Killer, or just not a nice guy?
The state bombards the jury with innuendo about Tex.
38 min
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S05, Ep9 The cops vs. the DA
The prosecution all but dismantles the chief homicide investigator -- usually an ally -- in the Tex McIver murder case.
34 min
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S05, Ep3: Muddy Waters
35 min
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S05, Ep5: Prospective jurors: He did it
One prospective juror after another is dismissed for cause because he or she believes Tex McIver intended to kill his wife.
26 min
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S05, Ep2: The courtship of Tex and Diane McIver
A $60,000 ring, a romantic proposal on the ranch, a storybook wedding. How did all that come to this?
37 min
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S05, Ep4: Legal strategy
Some of the best lawyers in Georgia will go head to head this week in the murder trial of Claud
37 min
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S05, Ep1: The McIver Murder Case
Wealthy and politically connected, Tex McIver and his wife, Diane, had it all. Until he shot her in the back.
41 min
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S06_Ep5: The Verdict
Time to decide: The final episode of Season 6 of Breakdown.
45 min
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S06_Ep2: Voice of a Killer?
Homicide detective closes in on his suspect
38 min
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S06_Ep3: A trial by jury
The murder case of Nicholas Benton goes to trial in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta.
38 min
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S06_Ep4: Deliberation
The state's case isn't perfect; it may not even be good enough
36 min
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S07, Ep8: The State Strikes Back
45 min
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S06, Ep1: A Jury of His Peers
Kevin Riley, editor-in-chief of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, goes deep inside a double-murder case in Atlanta.
24 min
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S07, Ep9: The verdict
52 min
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S07, Ep7: Three eyewitnesses
29 min
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S07, Ep5: A trial run
29 min
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S07, Ep6: Unarmed. Unclothed. Unable to Harm?
40 min
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S07, Ep3: 'Impervious to pain, superhuman stren...
32 min
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S07, Ep2: The road to indictment
34 min
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S07, Ep4: Policing a mental health crisis
28 min
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S07, Ep1: 'They're here to help me'
29 min
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S08, Ep. 19: Life in prison
Bill Rankin and Asia Burns of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution look at the emotional sentencing hearing for the men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery.
57 min
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S08 Ep20: Jackie Johnson goes to trial
AJC journalists Tamar Hallerman and Shaddi Abusaid examine the trial of former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson
19 min
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S08, Ep. 17: Ahmaud Arbery's killer takes the w...
80 min