Breakdown

By The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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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.

Episode Date
Breakdown Season 11 Bonus
Aug 25, 2025
Ep 6: A Very Dangerous Argument
Aug 18, 2025
Ep 5: The Dream Team
Aug 11, 2025
Ep 4: Hitting the Floor
Aug 04, 2025
Ep 3: Speedy Trial
Jul 28, 2025
Ep 2: Isolated
Jul 21, 2025
Ep 1: Mack
Jul 21, 2025
S0 2, Ep 8: The jury panel is assembled
Jul 17, 2025
Season 5, Episode 2.5
Jul 17, 2025
Coming soon: Back to the Tex McIver murder case
Jul 17, 2025
SO5, Ep6: McIver goes to trial
Jul 17, 2025
Coming Soon: A New Season of Breakdown
Jul 17, 2025
Coming soon: The next season of Breakdown
Jul 17, 2025
Coming soon: The next season of Breakdown
Jul 17, 2025
Coming soon: The 7th season of Breakdown
Jul 17, 2025
SO8, Ep.10: The defense makes its case
Jul 17, 2025
SO8, Ep.8: He ran. And ran. And ran.
Jul 17, 2025
SO8, Ep. 12, The Ahmaud Arbery murder trial begins
Jul 17, 2025
SO8, Ep. 11, A fourth defendant is indicted
Jul 17, 2025
SO8, Ep.4: Father and Son
Jul 17, 2025
SO8, Ep5: The Elephant in the Room
Jul 17, 2025
SO8, Ep. 14, We’re almost there
Jul 17, 2025
SO8, Ep. 13, Jurors express some strong opinions
Jul 17, 2025
S5, Ep. 12 The Tex McIver Case: Georgia Supreme Court strikes again
Jul 17, 2025
S2 Ep. 18: A Momentous Decision
Jul 17, 2025
S01, Episode 8 - After a year’s wait, a concluding decision
Jul 17, 2025
S01 Episode 6: Could Justin Chapman Be Guilty?
Jul 17, 2025
S01 Episode 7: A New Trial or a New Life?
Jul 17, 2025
S01 Episode 0: Before You Listen
Jul 17, 2025
S01 Episode 2: She Lost, but She Never Gave Up
Jul 17, 2025
S01 Episode 3: Let’s Test the Evidence
Jul 17, 2025
S01 Episode 4: The New Team Goes to Work
Jul 17, 2025
S01 Episode 5: Young Lawyers and Old Hands
Jul 17, 2025
S01 Episode 1: Railroad Justice in a Railroad Town
Jul 17, 2025
S02, Episode 17: Postscript
Jul 17, 2025
S02, Episode 14: Leanna Taylor takes the stand
Jul 17, 2025
S02, Episode 15: The jury gets the case
Jul 17, 2025
S02, Episode 16: We have a verdict
Jul 17, 2025
S02, Episode 9: It’s time to go to trial: Will Harris testify?
Jul 17, 2025
S02, Episode 10: Game on
Jul 17, 2025
S02, Episode 11: Shelter from the storm
Jul 17, 2025
S02, Episode 12: From the gutter to the homicide file
Jul 17, 2025
S02, Episode 13: The State Rests
Jul 17, 2025
S02 Episode 4 - Deciding the case before it begins?
Jul 17, 2025
S02, Episode 5: A jury of his peers, with preconceived notions
Jul 17, 2025
S02, Episode 5.5: A change of venue
Jul 17, 2025
S02, Episode6: A sudden change of venue
Jul 17, 2025
S02, Episode 7 - Harris trial moves to Georgia's Golden Isles
Jul 17, 2025
S02 Episode 1 - Death in a Hot Car: Mistake or Murder?
Jul 17, 2025
S02 Episode 2: An air-tight case against Justin Ross Harris?
Jul 17, 2025
S02 Episode 3 - Leanna Harris: Once implicated, never charged
Jul 17, 2025
S03, Episode 6: Banishment
Jul 17, 2025
S03, Episode 2: Prey
Jul 17, 2025
S03, Episode 3: Compulsion
Jul 17, 2025
S03, Episode 4: Arrested
Jul 17, 2025
S03, Episode 5: Punishment
Jul 17, 2025
S03 Episode 1: Predator, M.D.
Jul 17, 2025
S04, Ep6: The murdered woman
Jul 17, 2025
S04, Ep 7: Devonia Inman is a free man
Jul 17, 2025
S04, Ep2: The prosecution
Jul 17, 2025
S04, Ep3: The mask
Jul 17, 2025
S04, Ep4: Burying the lede?
Jul 17, 2025
S04, Ep5: Yet another bombshell
Jul 17, 2025
S04, Ep1: The crime
Jul 17, 2025
S05, Ep10.5 The jury is out
Jul 17, 2025
S05, Ep11; The verdict on Tex McIver
Jul 17, 2025
S05. Ep7: Dani Jo testifies
Jul 17, 2025
S05, Ep8: Killer, or just not a nice guy?
Jul 17, 2025
S05, Ep9 The cops vs. the DA
Jul 17, 2025
S05, Ep10: Surprises from the defense
Jul 17, 2025
S05, Ep2: The courtship of Tex and Diane McIver
Jul 17, 2025
S05, Ep3: Muddy Waters
Jul 17, 2025
S05, Ep4: Legal strategy
Jul 17, 2025
S05, Ep5: Prospective jurors: He did it
Jul 17, 2025
S05, Ep1: The McIver Murder Case
Jul 17, 2025
S06_Ep2: Voice of a Killer?
Jul 17, 2025
S06_Ep3: A trial by jury
Jul 17, 2025
S06_Ep4: Deliberation
Jul 17, 2025
S06_Ep5: The Verdict
Jul 17, 2025
S06, Ep1: A Jury of His Peers
Jul 17, 2025
S07, Ep8: The State Strikes Back
Jul 17, 2025
S07, Ep9: The verdict
Jul 17, 2025
S07, Ep5: A trial run
Jul 17, 2025
S07, Ep6: Unarmed. Unclothed. Unable to Harm?
Jul 17, 2025
S07, Ep7: Three eyewitnesses
Jul 17, 2025
S07, Ep2: The road to indictment
Jul 17, 2025
S07, Ep3: 'Impervious to pain, superhuman strength'
Jul 17, 2025
S07, Ep4: Policing a mental health crisis
Jul 17, 2025
S07, Ep1: 'They're here to help me'
Jul 17, 2025
S08 Ep20: Jackie Johnson goes to trial
Jul 17, 2025
S08, Ep. 19: Life in prison
Jul 17, 2025
S08, Ep. 18: 'We have a verdict'
Jul 17, 2025
S08, Ep. 17: Ahmaud Arbery's killer takes the witness stand
Jul 17, 2025
S08, Ep. 16: 'We don't want any more Black pastors'
Jul 17, 2025
S08, Ep. 15: 11 white jurors, one Black juror
Jul 17, 2025
S08, Ep3: How Georgia lets citizens arrest fellow citizens
Jul 17, 2025
S08, Ep. 6: The McMichaels plead for bond
Jul 17, 2025
S08, Ep. 7: The immediate aftermath
Jul 17, 2025
S08, Ep. 9: Is Ahmaud's imperfect past relevant?
Jul 17, 2025
S08, Ep1: The Ahmaud Arbery case
Jul 17, 2025
S08, Ep2: Preliminary Hearing
Jul 17, 2025
S9 Ep. 31: What’s next?
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep. 30: We’re Still Waiting
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep.29: Save the Date
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep.28: Donald Trump’s NY indictment and what it means for Georgia
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep 27: Inside the Special Grand Jury
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep. 26: The Forewoman Emerges
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep. 25: Reading Between the Lines
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep. 24: The Fulton special grand jury report
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep. 23: Decisions Are Imminent
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep. 22: Its Work Is Done
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep. 21 Presentments
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep. 20 Breakdown Bonus: It's all politics
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep. 19: The Referee
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep. 18: Eastman's prophecy
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep.17: What Trump knew
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep 16: The Phony Slate
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep 15: It's Newt's turn
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep 14: Breakdown Bonus with the AJC's Bill Torpy and Patricia Murphy
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep 13: Who's Rico?
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep 12: Breakdown Bonus: What happened in Coffee County, Georgia
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep 10: Closing In
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep. 11: Will Trump be invited?
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep 9: The Pinball Machine
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep 8: Trump’s new legal team
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep 7: Planting the seeds of truth
Jul 14, 2025
S9 Ep 6: One for the history books
Jul 14, 2025
S9, Ep 5: The out-of-state witness subpoenas
Jul 14, 2025
S9, Ep. 4: A Guilty Mind?
Jul 14, 2025
S9, Ep. 3: Is there a criminal case?
Jul 14, 2025
S9, Ep. 1: The January 2nd phone call
Jul 14, 2025
S9, Ep. 2: A force of nature
Jul 14, 2025
S9, Ep. 0: Breakdown Season 9 - Coming June 20th
Jul 14, 2025
S10 Ep33: The Closings
Jul 11, 2025
S10 E32: No Star Witness
Jul 11, 2025
S10 E31: Under The Microscope
Jul 11, 2025
S10 E30: Fani Willis Takes the Stand
Jul 11, 2025
S10 E29: Setting the Table
Jul 11, 2025
S10 E28: Getting Personal
Jul 11, 2025
S10 E27: The Response
Jul 11, 2025
S10 E26: Piling On
Jul 11, 2025
S10 E25: Wade v. Wade
Jul 11, 2025
S10 E24: Firing Back From The Pulpit
Jul 11, 2025
S10 E23: Bombshell Allegations
Jul 11, 2025
S10 E22: Sorry, Not Sorry
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep. 21: A Conversation With DA Willis
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep20: Election Interference?
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep19: Walking the Line
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep 18: Breakdown Bonus: Thanksgiving Edition
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep17: The Proffers
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep.16: The Fraud Hunters
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep15: Inside the Ellis Plea Deal
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep.14: Copping a Plea
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep. 13: The Kraken's Released
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep. 12: Lights, Camera, Action
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep.11: Let's Make a Deal
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep.10: To Remove or not to Remove?
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep.9: Meadows Is Denied
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep.8: Finally, the Report
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep.7: The Architect
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep.6: Meadows’ Gambit
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep.5: Trump Surrenders
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep.4: Show Time at Rice Street
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep.3: The Chaos Arrives
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep.2: The Enterprise
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep.1: How We Got Here
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep. 0: The Trump Indictment - Coming Wednesday
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep35: Fani's Choice
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep34: The Cases for Keeping or Disqualifying
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep37: Your Burning Questions
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep36: Merchant Speaks Out
Jul 11, 2025
S10 E40: Hello 2025?
Jul 11, 2025
S10 E39: The Case is Submitted
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep38: The Appeal
Jul 11, 2025
S10 Ep41: Goodbye For Now
Jul 11, 2025
Breakdown Season 11: Three Days in May
Jul 06, 2025
Bonus: The Imperfect Alibi
May 23, 2020