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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S06_Ep5: The Verdict
Time to decide: The final episode of Season 6 of Breakdown.
45 min
77
S06_Ep3: A trial by jury
The murder case of Nicholas Benton goes to trial in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta.
38 min
78
S06_Ep4: Deliberation
The state's case isn't perfect; it may not even be good enough
36 min
79
S06_Ep2: Voice of a Killer?
Homicide detective closes in on his suspect
38 min
80
S07, Ep8: The State Strikes Back
45 min
81
S07, Ep9: The verdict
52 min
82
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
83
S07, Ep6: Unarmed. Unclothed. Unable to Harm?
40 min
84
S07, Ep7: Three eyewitnesses
29 min
85
S07, Ep5: A trial run
29 min
86
S07, Ep2: The road to indictment
34 min
87
S07, Ep4: Policing a mental health crisis
28 min
88
S07, Ep3: 'Impervious to pain, superhuman stren...
32 min
89
S07, Ep1: 'They're here to help me'
29 min
90
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
91
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
92
S08, Ep. 15: 11 white jurors, one Black juror
58 min
93
S08, Ep. 16: 'We don't want any more Black past...
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution's Bill Rankin, Asia Burns and Shaddi Abusaid follow detail-by-detail, the first week of testimony in the case of the three men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick
57 min
94
S08, Ep. 17: Ahmaud Arbery's killer takes the w...
80 min
95
S08, Ep. 18: 'We have a verdict'
The 18th episode of Season 8 of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Breakdown podcast covers the verdict’s outcome and its aftermath.
72 min
96
S08, Ep. 7: The immediate aftermath
39 min
97
S08, Ep. 6: The McMichaels plead for bond
49 min
98
S08, Ep3: How Georgia lets citizens arrest fell...
41 min
99
S08, Ep. 9: Is Ahmaud's imperfect past relevant?
49 min
100
S08, Ep1: The Ahmaud Arbery case
46 min