Season 2 Trailer: The Murder of Darren Seals

Trailer for 2024's 10-part Season 2 of the NAACP Image Award-nominated true crime podcast. Darren Seals, 29-year-old rapper and famed activist, hailed as a possible successor to Malcolm X, is found shot dead inside his burning Jeep the morning after Labor Day 2016. Six years later, the former Missouri state senator who was in the Ferguson movement with him, Maria Chappelle-Nadal, joins co-host Ray Nowosielski and our investigative team for a two-plus years investigation and all of its twists and turns. They cross a landscape of rap artists, protestors, gang members, cops, FBI agents and even a serial killer, from the streets of St. Louis to the HQ of JayZ’s Roc Nation in New York City, from government offices to prison cells, picking up the trail left by Darren's murderer -- with an ending you have to hear to believe. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Emergency nine on one Saint Louis County address for the emergency.
It's a fly my partment, life like this cause on
fire stand the phone for the fire of Park Okay.
In the early morning hours of September sixth, twenty sixteen,
Saint Louis rapper and activist Darren Seals was found murdered.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Police initially thought they were responding to a car on fire,
but once they put out the flames, they discovered Seal's
body inside with a gunshot wound.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
New from Double Asterisk and iHeart Podcasts After the Uprising
Season two, a ten part true crime podcast series investigating
the death of iconic Ferguson activist Darren Seals and what.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
They can learn.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Off for death offered none in the movement that was
birthed in the aftermath of the killing of Mike Brown Junior,
Darren was hailed by many as the successor to Malcolm
X's Ferguson PD Grab you by my heart, slam me
out the export guns. I mean, my little brother. But
the attention he garnered found him the target of police
harassment and maybe worse. She said every day, dar but

(01:10):
tell her all right, MA be prepared. They are going
to try to kill me. He's had a white boy game.
From out of the wound, everything you know, the car
was all find well. I'm a podcast journalist and I'm
a former state senator. Marie and Chapeladal there was a
young man in twenty sixteen that was.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Killed on this blog.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Back in twenty fourteen, I was in the streets of
Ferguson getting tear gassed alongside Darren Seals. Now to figure
out who killed him. I've spent two years working leads
with journalist Ray Novashwski and our NAACP Image Award nominated
investigative team. Over ten episodes, we crossed the landscape of

(01:54):
rap artists, gang members, and FBI agents from the streets
of Saint Louis to the high rises of New York City,
from government offices to prison cells to pick up the
trail left by Darren's murder with an ending you have
to hear to believe in argument. Can you give me
any sense of what the argument would have been over.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
He was supposed to have a meeting with Rock Nations
up in New York.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Kind of start to shifting and hanging out casting. None
of us really trusted and They lined them up. Even
if I did want to tell you something, that's a
dangerous game to play. You're scaring me as we're trying
to investigate this and find the murder. I'm not gonna
let nothing change my mind. I really know who did
it myself. They've been following him for months. That's enough

(02:43):
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