Mississippi

On July 8, 2022, Ole Miss student and gay activist Jimmie 'Jay' Lee disappeared from Oxford, Mississippi. Nearly three years later, Timothy Herrington pleaded guilty to his murder, even though the body wasn't found until February 2025. Private messages would prove crucial to cracking the case.

Since launching in September 2016, *In the Dark* has become one of the most consequential true crime podcasts, using meticulous investigative journalism to examine not the crimes themselves, but the systemic failures that allow injustice to persist. Now produced by *The New Yorker* and Condé Nast Entertainment, the series has prompted legislative reform and overturned convictions.