After the Uprising

Notice of Episode UPDATE (#1) Jun 27, 2024

Season 2 Episode 10 has been updated as described here.

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Season 2 Episode 10: Long Live the King Jun 12, 2024

After two and a half years of investigation, our podcast team is finishing this episode when something unexpected arrives: the 196-page St. Louis County police investigation report into Darren Seals’ murder. Buckle up. If you want to know what the cops knew, here it is. And the questions raised will shock you.

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Season 2 Episode 09: Mosi's Secret Box Jun 12, 2024

We think we know what happened to Darren Seals. From the beginning, word spread about another investigator from the New York Times who had spent years looking into the case. When a box of Mosi Secret’s materials makes it into our hands, it leads to a deep dive into a series of federal indictments, a seemingly dirty St. Louis cop, a Mexican drug cartel and some uncomfortable questions about who was “snitching,” or was simply made to seem like they were.

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Season 2 Episode 08: A Dangerous Game Jun 11, 2024

Our investigators seek out the surviving members of the rap group Darren Seals managed during his final year, the Bottom Boyz. Was the motive for his homicide really a matter of a music dispute, or have “the streets” had that wrong the whole time? Los the Main Event speaks from behind prison walls. Meanwhile, Little Ricky has been released after a stretch, while LP has just beaten a murder rap.

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Season 2 Episode 05: The Bonnie Situation Jun 11, 2024

Before her sudden passing in 2023, Darren Seals’ mother Bonnie Otis sat down over several months for roughly 30 hours of conversations with this podcast. It becomes apparent that she was a central hub of sorts to whom tipsters turned. Using these varied and often conflicting accounts, our investigators piece together scenarios for Darren’s final night.

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Season 2 Episode 07: Satan's Seed Jun 11, 2024

One of the lead suspects for the murder of Darren Seals was himself murdered in 2020. When our investigators obtain the police report into that killing – and audio from the police interrogations – many of the pieces begin to fall into place. But many new mysteries emerge. Why was Darren’s murder suspect never prosecuted? And what about the suspects in that man’s murder?

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Season 2 Episode 06: Confidential Human Source Jun 11, 2024

Darren Seals’ mother was certain the answer to his murder lay with the FBI. Dismissed as “conspiracy theory,” her assertion seems suddenly bolstered when a redacted document is released that reveals the existence of a U.S. government surveillance operation on Darren over his final six months. What were they after? Who was the informant that sent them to Darren? And what do they know?

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Season 2 Episode 03: Roc Nation Jun 11, 2024

The streets talk, and they say Darren Seals was killed during an argument about music. But is this a red herring? The investigators work to pin down the details of a meeting Darren had in New York City with JayZ’s Roc Nation only one month before his death. Members of his rap group D.O.A. talk and lead us to a focus on another group Darren began managing during his final year, the Bottom Boyz. And a witness who saw the Jeep set on fire offers a description of the suspects involved, including “a white boy” with a ponytail.

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Season 2 Episode 04: Crime Scene Jun 11, 2024

Amir Brandy, co-founder of Real STL News, and his videographer friend Darnell Singleton, undertook their own on-the-ground investigation into Darren Seals’ murder beginning the day he was found. Meeting them at the Ridgeview Apartments where his Jeep was driven and set ablaze, they reveal a lead as to where the actual killing took place. On Gamble Street, in the city of St. Louis, on that same night around the same time, another man matching Darren’s description was shot dead, Shaun Hawkins. But is there actually a connection?

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Season 2 Episode 02: Serial Killer Jun 11, 2024

The strange torched vehicle M.O. of Darren Seals’ murder bears a striking similarity to another that took place two years prior, DeAndre Joshua. And his brother names a suspect, their friend Perez Reed. When Reed is suddenly arrested for a murder spree across Missouri and Kansas, it sends our investigators on the trail of an alleged serial killer. Could Reed be the answer to both Joshua and Seals?

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Season 2 Episode 01: The King Is Dead Jun 11, 2024

St. Louis County, 2016, the early hours after Labor Day. Darren Seals, 29 year old rapper and famed Ferguson activist, is found shot dead inside his burning Jeep. Six years later, the former Missouri state senator who was in the movement with him, Maria Chappelle-Nadal, joins co-host Ray Nowosielski and our investigative team to begin a two-plus years investigation. His activist friends point to a sloppy crime scene and rumors about cops and white suspects. But leads offer many directions.

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Season 2 Trailer: The Murder of Darren Seals May 27, 2024

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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Season 1 Trailer: The Death of Danyé Dion Jones May 19, 2021

Trailer for the 11-part NAACP Image Award-nominated 2021 Season 1 of investigative podcast series After the Uprising, exploring the mysterious hanging death in St. Louis County of Ferguson activist Melissa McKinnies' son Danyé Jones.

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S1E01: A Mother Knows Her Son Jun 15, 2021

Danyé's mother Melissa finds her son dead and requests help from the media. Our hosts make contact with her, and the investigation begins.

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S1E02: Lost Voices Jun 22, 2021

Melissa's backstory at the origins of Black Lives Matter is explored. A shocking revelation about the lead detective in Danyé's case is unearthed.

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S1E03: A Minor Component Jun 29, 2021

As the St Louis County medical examiner determines Danyé's death to be suicide, our hosts look deeper into the evidence.

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S1E04: Missing Time Jul 06, 2021

A time-of-death innovator deepens the mystery around Danyé's last night. New evidence of racism by the lead detective causes a risky visit to his home by our hosts.

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S1E05: Chasing Dasha Jul 13, 2021

A rocky relationship begins between the podcast and St Louis County PD. A twisty turny pursuit of Danyé's ex-girlfriend ends in surprise.

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S1E06: She Said, She Said Jul 20, 2021

The 5-year anniversary of the Ferguson movement sees Melissa reunited with other activists. The hosts finally connect with Danye's ex, who may lead them into unlocking his phone.

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S1E07: Navy Knots Jul 27, 2021

Melissa seeks the bed sheet used in her son's death, intent on finding the origins of additional DNA. The death of George Floyd changes everything -- or maybe nothing at all?

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S1E08: The Streets Was Gonna Handle It Aug 03, 2021

The opening of Danyé's cell phone leads deeply into the man himself.

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E1S09: Not Paranoid, Stressed Aug 10, 2021

New discoveries lead our hosts more deeply back into the suicide theory.

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S1E10: Hypothesis & Conjecture Aug 17, 2021

In the penultimate episode, "theory" sessions attempt to tease out how Danyé's final hours may have gone done.

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S1E11: A Fair Shake Aug 24, 2021

Everything wraps up with Melissa and the podcasts allying with Missouri state Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal to try to get new evidence to first black prosecutor Wesley Bell, and Danyé's case reopened.

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