After the Uprising

Jan 15 2025 25 ep. 36 mins 601
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NAACP Image Award-nominated true crime podcast investigates a string of mysterious tragedies among Ferguson activists in St. Louis, years after they helped launch a national movement for Black Lives.  Season One: The Death of Danyé Dion Jones hosted by John Duffy & Ray Nowosielski. Season Two: The Murder of Darren Seals hosted by former Missouri state Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal & Ray Nowosielski. http://www.DoubleAsteriskMedia.com/

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BONUS: Announcing 2025 NAACP Image Award Nomination!

Jan 15 2025 1 mins  
After the Uprising Season 2: The Murder of Darren Seals is 1 of 5 nominees for the 2025 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Podcast, News and Information! Please vote for the show now by clicking https://vote.naacpimageawards.net/ Then scroll down to the Podcast section at the bottom, click on News & Information, and then tap the After the Uprising icon. At bottom click Back

Notice of Episode UPDATE (#1)

Jun 27 2024
Season 2 Episode 10 has been updated as described here.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/DoubleAsteriskSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Season 2 Episode 10: Long Live the King

Jun 11 2024 53 mins  
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. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.c

Season 2 Episode 09: Mosi's Secret Box

Jun 11 2024 38 mins  
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 quest

Season 2 Episode 08: A Dangerous Game

Jun 11 2024 44 mins  
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 bea

Season 2 Episode 05: The Bonnie Situation

Jun 11 2024 39 mins  
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. Learn more about your ad

Season 2 Episode 07: Satan's Seed

Jun 11 2024 44 mins  
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? Lea

Season 2 Episode 06: Confidential Human Source

Jun 11 2024 38 mins  
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 th

Season 2 Episode 03: Roc Nation

Jun 11 2024 38 mins  
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, th

Season 2 Episode 04: Crime Scene

Jun 11 2024 36 mins  
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