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Heather Jane | Toronto Life | 13th April 2026 | UFor reasons that will become clear, I shouldn’t have enjoyed Serial, the viral podcast series. But I did. I devoured it. When my co-worker recommended that I tune in to season one, a journalist’s months-long investigation into a Baltimore student convicted of killing his girlfriend in 1999, I was skeptical. But, by the second episode, I was riveted. I quickly became one of the millions of people who eagerly awaited the weekly episode drop.I usu...