In The Dark

By The New Yorker

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Serial investigative journalism, with host Madeleine Baran and a team of reporters. Season 1 looked at the abduction of Jacob Wetterling in rural Minnesota and the accountability of sheriffs in solving crime. Season 2 examined the case of Curtis Flowers, who was tried six times for the same crime. Also, a special report on COVID-19 in the Mississippi Delta.

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03.09.2023

Big news! In the Dark has a new home and a new team of partners. The podcast now comes to you from The New Yorker—the legendary home of extraordinary journalism. ____ In the Dark is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that ...

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03.09.2023 An Announcement Big news! In the Dark has a new home and a new team of partners. The podcast now comes to you from The New Yorker—the legendary home of extraordinary journalism. ____ In the Dark is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that ...
03.08.2022 Introducing: Sent Away Madeleine chats with her colleague Curtis Gilbert about his new show Sent Away, a deep investigative dive into the troubled world of the troubled teen industry. Episode 1: A dark cave. A tragic accident. A new treatment center. The state ...
03.30.2021 Introducing: In Front of Our Eyes from MPR News In March 2021, the trial of Derek Chauvin, the first of the former officers charged in the killing of George Floyd, began. Police officers are rarely prosecuted in such cases — and the world is watching. The Minnesota Public Radio ...
10.14.2020 S2 E20: Curtis Flowers During three years investigating the Curtis Flowers case, we’d talked to nearly everyone involved: lawyers, witnesses, jurors, family members, investigators, politicians, and many, many people around town. But there was one person we hadn’t yet interviewed — Curtis Flowers. That ...
10.14.2020 S2 E20: Curtis Flowers During three years investigating the Curtis Flowers case, we’d talked to nearly everyone involved: lawyers, witnesses, jurors, family members, investigators, politicians, and many, many people around town. But there was one person we hadn’t yet interviewed — Curtis Flowers. That ...
10.14.2020 S2 E20: Curtis Flowers During three years investigating the Curtis Flowers case, we’d talked to nearly everyone involved: lawyers, witnesses, jurors, family members, investigators, politicians, and many, many people around town. But there was one person we hadn’t yet interviewed — Curtis Flowers. That ...
10.14.2020 S2 E20: Curtis Flowers During three years investigating the Curtis Flowers case, we’d talked to nearly everyone involved: lawyers, witnesses, jurors, family members, investigators, politicians, and many, many people around town. But there was one person we hadn’t yet interviewed — Curtis Flowers. That ...
10.14.2020 S2 E20: Curtis Flowers During three years investigating the Curtis Flowers case, we’d talked to nearly everyone involved: lawyers, witnesses, jurors, family members, investigators, politicians, and many, many people around town. But there was one person we hadn’t yet interviewed — Curtis Flowers. That ...
10.14.2020 S2 E20: Curtis Flowers During three years investigating the Curtis Flowers case, we’d talked to nearly everyone involved: lawyers, witnesses, jurors, family members, investigators, politicians, and many, many people around town. But there was one person we hadn’t yet interviewed — Curtis Flowers. That ...
10.14.2020 S2 E20: Curtis Flowers During three years investigating the Curtis Flowers case, we’d talked to nearly everyone involved: lawyers, witnesses, jurors, family members, investigators, politicians, and many, many people around town. But there was one person we hadn’t yet interviewed — Curtis Flowers. That ...
10.14.2020 S2 E20: Curtis Flowers During three years investigating the Curtis Flowers case, we’d talked to nearly everyone involved: lawyers, witnesses, jurors, family members, investigators, politicians, and many, many people around town. But there was one person we hadn’t yet interviewed — Curtis Flowers. That ...
10.14.2020 S2 E20: Curtis Flowers During three years investigating the Curtis Flowers case, we’d talked to nearly everyone involved: lawyers, witnesses, jurors, family members, investigators, politicians, and many, many people around town. But there was one person we hadn’t yet interviewed — Curtis Flowers. That ...
09.04.2020 S2 E19: Freedom After 24 years, the case against Curtis Flowers is finally over. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch asks the judge to dismiss the charges against Flowers for lack of evidence. Flowers is released from house arrest and free – truly free ...
06.11.2020 Coronavirus in the Delta E6: Delta State College football is practically a religion in Mississippi. And for the players, it's life. As Covid-19 upended their world, the teammates at Delta State struggled to find structure and support for an off-season like no other. Learn more about your ...
05.29.2020 Update from Minneapolis Our last episode in this series will be a little late. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.
05.28.2020 Coronavirus in the Delta E5: Geno As the coronavirus swept into the Mississippi Delta, a judge in the small city of Indianola decided to release every inmate she had in jail. That is, every inmate except one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
05.21.2020 Coronavirus in the Delta E4: Watermelon Slim In the middle of a pandemic, with so many people suffering alone, it seemed an appropriate time to hear from a Delta blues singer. Enter Watermelon Slim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
05.14.2020 Coronavirus in the Delta E3: The Hospital The doctors and nurses at Greenwood Leflore Hospital brace for the pandemic, cordoning off their ICU and preparing for an influx of patients. Then the virus strikes one of their own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
05.06.2020 Coronavirus in the Delta E2: Parchman How do you self-isolate when your home is a single room that you share with 107 men? That's what inmates at Mississippi's infamous Parchman prison have been wondering for six weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
04.30.2020 Coronavirus in the Delta E1: Greenville A storm hits Greenville just in time for Easter. Two pastors and a mayor clash over how to do church during a pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
04.23.2020 Coronavirus in the Delta: The Trailer A new limited-run series from In the Dark, reporting on Covid-19 in the Mississippi Delta. Episodes every Thursday, beginning April 30. Support journalism with a donation to In the Dark. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
01.06.2020 S2 E18: The Recusal District Attorney Doug Evans has prosecuted Curtis Flowers for 23 years and six trials. Now he says he's done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
12.22.2019 S2 E17: Home After almost 23 years, Curtis Flowers is no longer behind bars. For his family, it's a long-awaited reunion. But not everyone in Winona is happy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
12.16.2019 S2 E16: A Hearing After nearly 23 years locked up, Curtis Flowers has a chance to get out on bail -- if his lawyers can convince the judge to rule in his favor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
09.10.2019 S2: Donor Episode Preview As a special thank you for our donors, we're releasing an exclusive, donors-only episode of In The Dark on Sept. 17. Get an inside look at the day of the Supreme Court's decision, including exclusive audio from our reporting and ...
07.02.2019 S2 E15: Revelations It's been 11 days since the U.S. Supreme Court threw out Curtis Flowers' conviction. But the story didn't end there. In recent days, there have been three other significant developments, including new details from a key witness, that may determine ...
06.21.2019 S2 E14: The Decision On Friday, June 21, after months of deliberation, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its opinion in the Curtis Flowers case. In a 7-2 ruling, the justices threw out the conviction from his sixth trial, in 2010. The decision of ...
03.26.2019 S2 E13: Oral Arguments After nearly nine years of appeals of his sixth trial, Curtis Flowers finally had his case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. At issue was whether DA Doug Evans tried to keep African-Americans off the jury in the 2010 trial. ...
03.26.2019 S2 E13: Oral Arguments After nearly nine years of appeals of his sixth trial, Curtis Flowers finally had his case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. At issue was whether DA Doug Evans tried to keep African-Americans off the jury in the 2010 trial. ...
03.19.2019 S2 E12: Before the Court We resume Season Two with the U.S. Supreme Court weighing Curtis Flowers' case. We preview oral arguments and delve into the allegations at the heart of the appeal: that Doug Evans tried to keep African-Americans off the jury in Flowers' ...
02.19.2019 Coming Soon: New Episodes of Season Two Our second season spanned a year in Mississippi where we revealed misconduct, injustice and racial divide in the six trials of Curtis Flowers. The U.S. Supreme Court will now decide if the prosecutor racially discriminated in jury selection. In four ...
11.27.2018 S2 Update: Q&A + A Fire in Winona We answer your questions and report on a fire in Winona. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
11.02.2018 S2 Update: SCOTUS Takes the Case The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Curtis Flowers' appeal. Now the justices will examine if District Attorney Doug Evans had a history of racial discrimination in jury selection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
09.20.2018 S1 Update: The Wetterling File In Season 1 of our podcast, we reported that the Jacob Wetterling case was a botched investigation. Just yesterday, law enforcement acknowledged it too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
09.18.2018 S2 Update: Back to Winona Two months after the season ended, we return to Winona to see what has changed. Turns out, a lot. Curtis Flowers' mother has died. The whole town is talking about the case. Flowers' defense lawyers are including our findings in ...
07.03.2018 S2 E11: The End For the last episode of the season, we went to meet Jeffery Armstrong, who, a few years after Curtis Flowers first went to prison, found what might have been a key piece of evidence. What he found -- and where ...
07.03.2018 S2 E11: The End For the last episode of the season, we went to meet Jeffery Armstrong, who, a few years after Curtis Flowers first went to prison, found what might have been a key piece of evidence. What he found -- and where ...
06.26.2018 S2 E10: Discovery Prosecutors have always said that Curtis Flowers was the only serious suspect in the Tardy Furniture investigation. But we found a document showing that another man, Willie James Hemphill, had also been questioned just days after the murders. Who was ...
06.26.2018 S2 E10: Discovery Prosecutors have always said that Curtis Flowers was the only serious suspect in the Tardy Furniture investigation. But we found a document showing that another man, Willie James Hemphill, had also been questioned just days after the murders. Who was ...
06.19.2018 S2 E9: Why Curtis? After re-examining the case, we'd found no direct evidence linking Curtis Flowers to the murders at Tardy Furniture. But we had one lingering question: How did Flowers become the main suspect? Why would investigators focus so much on Flowers based ...
06.19.2018 S2 E9: Why Curtis? After re-examining the case, we'd found no direct evidence linking Curtis Flowers to the murders at Tardy Furniture. But we had one lingering question: How did Flowers become the main suspect? Why would investigators focus so much on Flowers based ...
06.12.2018 S2 E8: The D.A. After investigating every aspect of the Curtis Flowers case, we were nearly ready to present what we'd found to District Attorney Doug Evans. But first we tried to learn all we could about him: his childhood, his years as a ...
06.05.2018 S2 E7: The Trials of Curtis Flowers There's one critical aspect of the Curtis Flowers case that we haven't looked at yet -- the makeup of the juries. Each of the four times Flowers was convicted, the jury was all white or nearly all white. So we ...
05.29.2018 S2 E6: Punishment Odell Hallmon, the state's key witness in the Curtis Flowers case, is serving three consecutive life sentences. We wondered what he might say now that there are no deals to cut, and he will spend the rest of his days ...
05.22.2018 S2 E5: Privilege No witness has been more important to the prosecution's case against Curtis Flowers than Odell Hallmon. He testified in four trials that Flowers had confessed to him while the two men were in prison together. Hallmon has an astonishingly long ...
05.15.2018 S2 E4: The Confessions Over the years, three inmates have claimed that Curtis Flowers confessed to them that he killed four people at the Tardy Furniture store. But they've all changed their stories at one time or another. In this episode, we investigate who's ...
05.15.2018 S2 E4: The Confessions Over the years, three inmates have claimed that Curtis Flowers confessed to them that he killed four people at the Tardy Furniture store. But they've all changed their stories at one time or another. In this episode, we investigate who's ...
05.08.2018 S2 E3: The Gun Investigators never found the gun used to kill four people at Tardy Furniture. Yet the gun, and the bullets matched to it, became a key piece of evidence against Curtis Flowers. In this episode, we examine the strange histories of ...
05.08.2018 S2 E3: The Gun Investigators never found the gun used to kill four people at Tardy Furniture. Yet the gun, and the bullets matched to it, became a key piece of evidence against Curtis Flowers. In this episode, we examine the strange histories of ...
05.01.2018 S2 E2: The Route The case against Curtis Flowers relies heavily on three threads of evidence: the route he allegedly walked the morning of the murders, the gun that investigators believe he used, and the people he supposedly confessed to in jail. In this ...

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An Announcement

Introducing: Sent Away

Introducing: In Front of Our Eyes from MPR News

S2 E20: Curtis Flowers

S2 E20: Curtis Flowers

S2 E20: Curtis Flowers

S2 E20: Curtis Flowers

S2 E20: Curtis Flowers

S2 E20: Curtis Flowers

S2 E20: Curtis Flowers

S2 E20: Curtis Flowers

S2 E20: Curtis Flowers

S2 E19: Freedom

Coronavirus in the Delta E6: Delta State

Update from Minneapolis

Coronavirus in the Delta E5: Geno

Coronavirus in the Delta E4: Watermelon Slim

Coronavirus in the Delta E3: The Hospital

Coronavirus in the Delta E2: Parchman

Coronavirus in the Delta E1: Greenville

Coronavirus in the Delta: The Trailer

S2 E18: The Recusal

S2 E17: Home

S2 E16: A Hearing

S2: Donor Episode Preview

S2 E15: Revelations

S2 E14: The Decision

S2 E13: Oral Arguments

S2 E13: Oral Arguments

S2 E12: Before the Court

Coming Soon: New Episodes of Season Two

S2 Update: Q&A + A Fire in Winona

S2 Update: SCOTUS Takes the Case

S1 Update: The Wetterling File

S2 Update: Back to Winona

S2 E11: The End

S2 E11: The End

S2 E10: Discovery

S2 E10: Discovery

S2 E9: Why Curtis?

S2 E9: Why Curtis?

S2 E8: The D.A.

S2 E7: The Trials of Curtis Flowers

S2 E6: Punishment

S2 E5: Privilege

S2 E4: The Confessions

S2 E4: The Confessions

S2 E3: The Gun

S2 E3: The Gun

S2 E2: The Route