The second season of the incredibly popular ‘Serial’ podcast may focus on Bowe Bergdahl
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The second season of the incredibly popular "Serial" podcast produced by NPR will focus on the Bowe Bergdahl case, The Hollywood Reporter is confirming.
The Bergdahl case has attracted plenty of interest nationwide, following the soldier's release from Haqqani Network captivity in exchange for five Taliban detainees. The Army sergeant is currently facing charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy at his court-martial after he allegedly walked away from his combat outpost in 2009.
Bergdahl's attorneys claim he was trying to reach a nearby base to report troubling conditions in his unit, while many soldiers he served with believe him to be a deserter responsible for lives that were lost while they searched for him.
Via Maxim:
All of this is ripe material for Serial host Sarah Koenig's Rashomon approach to investigative journalism, which she deftly applied to the case of Adnan Syed, a man currently serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of his high school ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee.Koenig went to great lengths to examine the case from every possible angle—interviewing witnesses whose testimonies were never heard in court, and pursuing other leads abandoned during the investigation that led to Syed's conviction.
First debuted in 2014, the "Serial" podcast quickly rocketed to the top spot as the most popular podcast of all time. According to Maxim's reporting, reporters from "Serial" have been seen inside the courtroom at Bergdahl's trial.
