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Created February 03, 2024

Updated June 06, 2024

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  1. Open-Door Playhouse continues to present short plays in podcast form. Its upcomingplay Anxiety will debut on December 6, 2023 online at  http://opendoorplayhouse.orgTensions build when a manic-claustrophobic woman gets locked inside an office b
  2. Enter J.D. Hudson. Assigned to the case by the Chief of Police, this tough no-nonsense cop had knowledge of the streets and the crooks who ran them. The first black detective in Atlanta’s desegregated police force, Hudson headed security for th
  3. A police officer in Rutherford County, Tenn., sees a video of little kids fighting, and decides to investigate. This leads to the arrest of 11 kids for watching the fight. The arrests do not go smoothly. From Serial Productions and The New York
  4. A young lawyer named Wes Clark can’t get the Rutherford County juvenile court to let his clients out of detention — even when the law says they shouldn’t have been held in the first place. He’s frustrated and demoralized, until he makes a frien
  5. Wes Clark reads a telling line in a police report about how Rutherford County’s juvenile justice system really works. He and his law partner Mark Downton realize they have a massive class action on their hands. From Serial Productions and The N
  6. The lawyers settle with the county, which agrees to pay the kids who were wrongfully arrested and illegally jailed; the hard part is actually getting the kids paid. From Serial Productions and The New York Times in partnership with ProPublica a
  7. All physicians are taught, “First do no harm.” But what happens when a doctor does harm his patients?Dr. Robert Henderson was a veteran spinal surgeon in Dallas when he got an unusual phone call from a local hospital: a new surgeon had operated
  8. Chris Duntsch was a promising medical student, with a bright future ahead of him. The friends who knew him were shocked at the doctor he would later become. Not Chris, they said. That’s not the man I know. The Chris Duntsch they knew was driven
  9. Kimberly Morgan was attracted to Christopher Duntsch from the moment she met him. He was charming and seemed destined for great things. But she also saw another side to him. Duntsch’s behavior led many people who came into contact with him to w
  10. If a doctor is fired from a hospital, the hospital should report it immediately. That’s how problem doctors are prevented from getting hired elsewhere. But the places where Dr. Duntsch operated failed to report him to the proper authorities. If
  11. Dr. Henderson and Dr. Kirby were screaming for anyone to listen who might help them get Dr. Duntsch to stop operating. Kirby wrote to the Texas Medical Board. He and Henderson went to the police. But no one was listening.Please tell us what you
  12. Michelle Shughart has her work cut out for her, since no doctor has ever been prosecuted for crimes committed while practicing medicine. His patient’s lives would never be the same, but what would what would be the fate of Dr. Duntsch? The peop
  13. Reporter Laura Beil has a few updates on the story of Christopher Duntsch since the series was first released. She attends an appeals hearing for Duntsch's case, discusses Baylor-Plano Hospital’s response -- and the mysterious case of the disap
  14. This series has generated a lot of questions and comments from listeners for host and reporter Laura Beil. In this special interview episode, Laura talks with David Brown (from the podcast “Business Wars”) about a number of topics that have int
  15. April reads a news story and everything changes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
  16. Who the hell was Edward Wayne Edwards anyway? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
  17. April reads a news story and everything changes. 
  18. Who the hell was Edward Wayne Edwards anyway?
  19. How one murder case turned into three.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
  20. How one murder case turned into three. 
  21. John Quintrell arrives in Vietnam, 19-years-old, innocent, naive, and hoping to simply make it home alive. He immediately meets the man who will be his biggest obstacle to doing so, the volatile, cruel, and extremely dangerous, Lieutenant Ritte

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