I'm Rebecca LaVoy and this is a special bonus episode of Crime Riders On and in the dark

update.

On Friday, September 4th, Judge Joey Loper signed off on a motion from the Mississippi

Attorney General's office to drop all charges against Curtis Flowers.

He had been tried six times for the 1996 quadruple murders at Tardy Furniture in Winona, Mississippi.

Each proceeding either ended in a mistrial or was overturned for prosecutorial misconduct.

The charges were dismissed with prejudice, meaning flowers cannot be charged a seventh

time.

While Flowers' legal team could be credited for getting the conviction overturned by demonstrating

his rights had been violated by racist jury selection practices, even prevailing at the

US Supreme Court last year, the criminal case against him was fatally undercut by the

investigative reporting of the In the Dark Podcast.

Madeline Baron and her team at APM reports found numerous witnesses who either admitted

to lying on the stand or saying their witness statements were inaccurate.

They cast doubt on the quality of the evidence, the propriety of the investigation, and discovered

a credible alternative suspect.

The podcast famously shined a light on the conduct of district attorney Doug Evans,

who tried again and again to convict and execute Flowers through a combination of racist

legal maneuvers and evidence ginned up by his office's investigators.

Excerpts from the podcast, played in court, helped convince the judge the state's case

was fatally flawed.

In the hours after the news broke, I reached out to Madeline Baron to see if she would

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