Breakdown

By The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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True crime investigations from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Veteran legal affairs journalist Bill Rankin takes you inside the courtroom to break down the story and the criminal justice system. This award-winning series investigates Georgia’s most important cases with fact-based reporting. Season 10 will focus on the historic indictment of former President Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, led by District Attorney Fani Willis. Co-hosted by senior reporter Tamar Hallerman and editor Shannon McCaffrey. Learn more about our reporting at ajc.com/breakdown. 

Episode Date
S10 Ep41: Goodbye For Now
May 20, 2024
S10 E40: Hello 2025?
May 09, 2024
S10 E39: The Case is Submitted
Apr 30, 2024
S10 Ep38: The Appeal
Apr 11, 2024
S10 Ep37: Your Burning Questions
Mar 29, 2024
S10 Ep36: Merchant Speaks Out
Mar 26, 2024
S10 Ep35: Fani's Choice
Mar 16, 2024
S10 Ep34: The Cases for Keeping or Disqualifying
Mar 11, 2024
S10 Ep33: The Closings
Mar 07, 2024
S10 E32: No Star Witness
Feb 29, 2024
S10 E31: Under The Microscope
Feb 23, 2024
S10 E30: Fani Willis Takes the Stand
Feb 16, 2024
S10 E29: Setting the Table
Feb 14, 2024
S10 E28: Getting Personal
Feb 08, 2024
S10 E27: The Response
Feb 05, 2024
S10 E26: Piling On
Feb 02, 2024
S10 E25: Wade v. Wade
Jan 25, 2024
S10 E24: Firing Back From The Pulpit
Jan 19, 2024
S10 E23: Bombshell Allegations
Jan 11, 2024
S10 E22: Sorry, Not Sorry
Dec 21, 2023
S10 Ep. 21: A Conversation With DA Willis
Dec 14, 2023
S10 Ep20: Election Interference?
Dec 06, 2023
S10 Ep19: Walking the Line
Nov 29, 2023
S10 Ep 18: Breakdown Bonus: Thanksgiving Edition
Nov 20, 2023
S10 Ep17: The Proffers
Nov 17, 2023
S10 Ep.16: The Fraud Hunters
Nov 09, 2023
S10 Ep15: Inside the Ellis Plea Deal
Nov 01, 2023
S10 Ep.14: Copping a Plea
Oct 25, 2023
S10 Ep. 13: The Kraken's Released
Oct 20, 2023
S10 Ep. 12: Lights, Camera, Action
Oct 13, 2023
S10 Ep.11: Let's Make a Deal
Oct 05, 2023
S10 Ep.10: To Remove or not to Remove?
Sep 22, 2023
S10 Ep.9: Meadows Is Denied
Sep 15, 2023
S10 Ep.8: Finally, the Report
Sep 08, 2023
S10 Ep.7: The Architect
Sep 07, 2023
S10 Ep.6: Meadows’ Gambit
Aug 31, 2023
S10 Ep.5: Trump Surrenders
Aug 25, 2023
S10 Ep.4: Show Time at Rice Street
Aug 23, 2023
S10 Ep.3: The Chaos Arrives
Aug 18, 2023
S10 Ep.2: The Enterprise
Aug 15, 2023
S10 Ep.1: How We Got Here
Aug 09, 2023
S10 Ep. 0: The Trump Indictment - Coming Wednesday
Aug 08, 2023
S9 Ep. 31: What’s next?
Aug 03, 2023
S9 Ep. 30: We’re Still Waiting
Jul 05, 2023
S9 Ep.29: Save the Date
Apr 28, 2023
S9 Ep.28: Donald Trump’s NY indictment and what it means for Georgia
Apr 07, 2023
S9 Ep 27: Inside the Special Grand Jury
Mar 20, 2023
S9 Ep. 26: The Forewoman Emerges
Mar 01, 2023
S9 Ep. 25: Reading Between the Lines
Feb 22, 2023
S9 Ep. 24: The Fulton special grand jury report
Feb 17, 2023
S9 Ep. 23: Decisions Are Imminent
Jan 27, 2023
S9 Ep. 22: Its Work Is Done
Jan 17, 2023
S9 Ep. 21 Presentments
Dec 23, 2022
S9 Ep. 20 Breakdown Bonus: It's all politics
Dec 06, 2022
S9 Ep. 19: The Referee
Nov 22, 2022
S9 Ep. 18: Eastman's prophecy
Nov 15, 2022
S9 Ep.17: What Trump knew
Nov 01, 2022
S9 Ep 16: The Phony Slate
Oct 25, 2022
S9 Ep 15: It's Newt's turn
Oct 18, 2022
S9 Ep 14: Breakdown Bonus with the AJC's Bill Torpy and Patricia Murphy
Oct 11, 2022
S9 Ep 13: Who's Rico?
Oct 04, 2022
S9 Ep 12: Breakdown Bonus: What happened in Coffee County, Georgia
Sep 27, 2022
S9 Ep. 11: Will Trump be invited?
Sep 16, 2022
S9 Ep 10: Closing In
Sep 07, 2022
S9 Ep 9: The Pinball Machine
Aug 25, 2022
S9 Ep 8: Trump’s new legal team
Aug 17, 2022
S9 Ep 7: Planting the seeds of truth
Aug 01, 2022
S9 Ep 6: One for the history books
Jul 25, 2022
S9, Ep 5: The out-of-state witness subpoenas
Jul 18, 2022
S9, Ep. 4: A Guilty Mind?
Jul 11, 2022
S5, Ep. 12 The Tex McIver Case: Georgia Supreme Court strikes again
Jul 08, 2022
S9, Ep. 3: Is there a criminal case?
Jul 04, 2022
S2 Ep. 18: A Momentous Decision
Jun 30, 2022
S9, Ep. 2: A force of nature
Jun 27, 2022
S9, Ep. 1: The January 2nd phone call
Jun 20, 2022
S9, Ep. 0: Breakdown Season 9 - Coming June 20th
Apr 29, 2022
S08, Ep. 19: Life in prison
Jan 16, 2022
S04, Ep 7: Devonia Inman is a free man
Jan 09, 2022
S08, Ep. 18: 'We have a verdict'
Nov 29, 2021
S08, Ep. 17: Ahmaud Arbery's killer takes the witness stand
Nov 22, 2021
S08, Ep. 16: 'We don't want any more Black pastors'
Nov 15, 2021
S08, Ep. 15: 11 white jurors, one Black juror
Nov 08, 2021
SO8, Ep. 14, We’re almost there
Nov 01, 2021
SO8, Ep. 13, Jurors express some strong opinions
Oct 25, 2021
SO8, Ep. 12, The Ahmaud Arbery murder trial begins
Oct 17, 2021
SO8, Ep. 11, A fourth defendant is indicted
Sep 20, 2021
SO8, Ep.10: The defense makes its case
Jun 02, 2021
S08, Ep. 9: Is Ahmaud's imperfect past relevant?
Apr 21, 2021
SO8, Ep.8: He ran. And ran. And ran.
Feb 23, 2021
S08, Ep. 7: The immediate aftermath
Jan 18, 2021
S08, Ep. 6: The McMichaels plead for bond
Nov 24, 2020
SO8, Ep5: The Elephant in the Room
Oct 19, 2020
SO8, Ep.4: Father and Son
Sep 21, 2020
S08, Ep3: How Georgia lets citizens arrest fellow citizens
Aug 24, 2020
S08, Ep2: Preliminary Hearing
Jun 11, 2020
S08, Ep1: The Ahmaud Arbery case
May 27, 2020
Bonus: The Imperfect Alibi
May 23, 2020
S07, Ep9: The verdict
Nov 18, 2019
S07, Ep8: The State Strikes Back
Nov 12, 2019
S07, Ep7: Three eyewitnesses
Nov 04, 2019
S07, Ep6: Unarmed. Unclothed. Unable to Harm?
Oct 29, 2019
S07, Ep5: A trial run
Oct 21, 2019
S07, Ep4: Policing a mental health crisis
Oct 15, 2019
S07, Ep3: 'Impervious to pain, superhuman strength'
Oct 08, 2019
S07, Ep2: The road to indictment
Oct 01, 2019
S07, Ep1: 'They're here to help me'
Sep 27, 2019
Coming soon: The 7th season of Breakdown
Sep 02, 2019
S05, Ep11; The verdict on Tex McIver
Apr 26, 2018
S05, Ep10.5 The jury is out
Apr 23, 2018
S05, Ep10: Surprises from the defense
Apr 16, 2018
S05, Ep9 The cops vs. the DA
Apr 09, 2018
S05, Ep8: Killer, or just not a nice guy?
Apr 02, 2018
S05. Ep7: Dani Jo testifies
Mar 26, 2018
SO5, Ep6: McIver goes to trial
Mar 19, 2018
S05, Ep5: Prospective jurors: He did it
Mar 12, 2018
S05, Ep4: Legal strategy
Mar 05, 2018
S05, Ep3: Muddy Waters
Feb 26, 2018
Coming soon: Back to the Tex McIver murder case
Feb 19, 2018
S06_Ep5: The Verdict
Dec 18, 2017
S06_Ep4: Deliberation
Dec 11, 2017
S06_Ep3: A trial by jury
Dec 04, 2017
S06_Ep2: Voice of a Killer?
Nov 27, 2017
S06, Ep1: A Jury of His Peers
Nov 20, 2017
Coming soon: The next season of Breakdown
Nov 11, 2017
Season 5, Episode 2.5
Oct 30, 2017
S05, Ep2: The courtship of Tex and Diane McIver
Oct 23, 2017
S05, Ep1: The McIver Murder Case
Oct 16, 2017
Coming soon: The next season of Breakdown
Oct 06, 2017
S04, Ep6: The murdered woman
Aug 21, 2017
S04, Ep5: Yet another bombshell
Aug 14, 2017
S04, Ep4: Burying the lede?
Aug 07, 2017
S04, Ep3: The mask
Jul 31, 2017
S04, Ep2: The prosecution
Jul 24, 2017
S04, Ep1: The crime
Jul 17, 2017
Coming Soon: A New Season of Breakdown
Jul 05, 2017
S03, Episode 6: Banishment
Apr 24, 2017
S03, Episode 5: Punishment
Apr 17, 2017
S03, Episode 4: Arrested
Apr 10, 2017
S03, Episode 3: Compulsion
Apr 03, 2017
S03, Episode 2: Prey
Mar 27, 2017
S03 Episode 1: Predator, M.D.
Mar 20, 2017
S02, Episode 17: Postscript
Dec 09, 2016
S02, Episode 16: We have a verdict
Nov 20, 2016
S02, Episode 15: The jury gets the case
Nov 14, 2016
S02, Episode 14: Leanna Taylor takes the stand
Nov 07, 2016
S02, Episode 13: The State Rests
Oct 31, 2016
S02, Episode 12: From the gutter to the homicide file
Oct 24, 2016
S02, Episode 11: Shelter from the storm
Oct 17, 2016
S02, Episode 10: Game on
Oct 10, 2016
S02, Episode 9: It’s time to go to trial: Will Harris testify?
Sep 29, 2016
S0 2, Ep 8: The jury panel is assembled
Sep 22, 2016
S02, Episode 7 - Harris trial moves to Georgia's Golden Isles
Sep 08, 2016
S01, Episode 8 - After a year’s wait, a concluding decision
Jul 05, 2016
S02, Episode6: A sudden change of venue
May 10, 2016
S02, Episode 5.5: A change of venue
May 04, 2016
S02, Episode 5: A jury of his peers, with preconceived notions
Apr 26, 2016
S02 Episode 4 - Deciding the case before it begins?
Apr 19, 2016
S02 Episode 3 - Leanna Harris: Once implicated, never charged
Apr 10, 2016
S02 Episode 2: An air-tight case against Justin Ross Harris?
Apr 04, 2016
S02 Episode 1 - Death in a Hot Car: Mistake or Murder?
Mar 27, 2016
S01 Episode 0: Before You Listen
Feb 20, 2016
S01 Episode 7: A New Trial or a New Life?
Jun 28, 2015
S01 Episode 6: Could Justin Chapman Be Guilty?
Jun 19, 2015
S01 Episode 5: Young Lawyers and Old Hands
Jun 12, 2015
S01 Episode 4: The New Team Goes to Work
Jun 05, 2015
S01 Episode 3: Let’s Test the Evidence
May 29, 2015
S01 Episode 2: She Lost, but She Never Gave Up
May 22, 2015
S01 Episode 1: Railroad Justice in a Railroad Town
May 14, 2015