In the Dark: The Killings in Haditha
The New Yorker
In the Dark: The Killings in Haditha tells the heartbreaking and inexplicable story of a November 2005 massacre in which a group of U.S. Marines killed dozens of men, women, and children in Haditha, Iraq, and escaped without any official punishment from the American government. Over nine deeply researched podcast episodes, reporter Madeleine Baran and her team speak to the remaining relatives of the murdered Iraqi families about their enduring questions and endless pain, and challenge American military officials about why these killings were condoned. The answers Baran and company receive from the latter are sometimes flippant, often racist, and always revealing. For its unrelenting exploration of how the United States’ forever wars have devastated generations abroad but been pardoned at home, In the Dark: The Killings in Haditha wins a Peabody Award.
PRIMARY PRODUCTION CREDITS
Creators: Madeleine Baran and Samara Freemark. Executive Producers: David Remnick, Christopher Bannon. Producers: Samara Freemark, Natalie Jablonski, Rehman Tungekar. Writers: In the Dark team. Editors: Catherine Winter, Willing Davidson, Julia Rothchild, Chris Worthington, Dave Mann. Talent: Madeleine Baran, Parker Yesko, Samara Freemark, Natalie Jablonski, Rehman Tungekar. Host and Lead Reporter: Madeleine Baran. Managing Producer: Samara Freemark. Reporter: Parker Yesko. Reporting and Investigating in Iraq: BBC Arabic’s Namak Khoshnaw, Haider Ahmed, Manaa (pseudonym). Interpreting: Aya Muthanna. Interpreting and Translation: Aya al-Shakarchi. Additional Translation: Shireen Khaled, Lucie Kroening. Additional Reporting: Will Craft, Meg Martin, Hannah Wilentz, Cameron Foos. Managing Editor: Julia Rothchild. Fact-Checkers: Lucie Kroening, Linnea Feldman Emison, Shireen Khalid, Ismail Ibrahim. Lawyer: Fabio Bertoni. Engineer and Sound Designer: John DeLore. Theme Song Composer: Gary Meister. Musician/Composer: Allison Leyton-Brown. Additional Music: Chris Julin, Johnny Vince Evans. Artist: Emiliano Ponzi. Art Directors: Nicholas Konrad, Aviva Michaelov. Developer: David Kofahl. Head of Global Audio, Condé Nast: Chris Bannon. FOIA legal representation from the FOIA team at Loevy and Loevy.