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The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 5
2026-06-18 · 39 min
Days before the execution, the defense team scrambles to respond to an unexpected ruling, while the lead lawyer makes what may be his final visit to David Wood on death row. Everyone waits to find out...
The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 4
2026-06-18 · 30 min
To justify sentencing David Wood to death, prosecutors argued that he was a convicted rapist turned serial killer. And yet, Wood has insisted all along that isn’t true. We head to death row to hear hi...
The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 3
2026-06-18 · 44 min
In the final weeks before the execution date, the defense team has to decide just how far it’s willing to push people to save David Wood’s life. The team’s deliberations lead to a key witness on his d...
The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 2
2026-06-18 · 46 min
The way the state constructed the case, there’s no one big shiny piece of evidence for the defense to knock down. Instead, there are a million little threads to pull at. With less than two months unti...
The Last 12 Weeks - Ep. 1
2026-06-18 · 41 min
In 1992, David Wood became El Paso’s most notorious convicted serial killer. He has been on death row ever since. More than 30 years later, his lawyers have just a few months to argue his innocence a...
The Last 12 Weeks - Trailer
2026-06-16 · 2 min
In 1992, David Wood was convicted of murdering young women and girls and burying them in the desert outside El Paso. He has been on death row ever since. “The Last 12 Weeks” takes you behind the scene...
The Idiot - Chapter 5
2026-03-26 · 29 min
Allen will almost certainly be released in a few years. What should M.’s family do with a guy who refuses to own up to his own crime? Can he be re-integrated into the family? Should he be? While M. ...
The Idiot - Chapter 4
2026-03-26 · 63 min
Allen finally agrees to talk … and talk and talk, for 35 hours of interviews. M. wants to understand Allen on his own terms, to try and figure out how this scion of bohemian intellectuals ended up hir...
The Idiot - Chapter 3
2026-03-26 · 50 min
M. attends Allen’s trial in San Francisco. The FBI’s star witness, an agent who went by “David," plays his undercover recordings of Allen. They reveal how Allen’s scheme to deport Priscilla turned int...
The Idiot - Chapter 2
2026-03-26 · 50 min
M. seeks out Allen’s ex-wife, Priscilla, who tells her side of the story. It begins with a whirlwind romance but quickly turns to chart Allen’s betrayal: taking her son from Russia and stranding Prisc...

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