On this episode of the tip-off, we're doing something different. In the Dark is one of my favourite podcasts around and their second series blew me away.

It's an investigation of a cold case, but it's done with such rigour and respect.

It really is a gripping listen.

So on this episode, we're going to hear how that team of journalists did it.

We'll look at how they got a few of their big findings, but I'd also recommend you go listen to the whole series.

It really is great.

I'm Maeve McClenigan.

This is the tip-off.

My name is Madeline Barron, and I'm the host and lead reporter of an investigative podcast called In the Dark.

Madeline is about to set out on a journey that will take a year of her life.

It will see her scrambling all over the United States and even upping roots and moving house.

But she doesn't know that yet.

You see, she's just sat down at a computer.

It all started with an email, so after our first season of In the Dark, we asked listeners to send in their story tips

and we got hundreds and hundreds of story ideas.

Amongst all those story tips and ideas, there was one email that stood out.

There was one that was very short, and it was an email from a woman who said that she lived in Mississippi and she said that there was a man there named Curtis Flowers who was on death row and who'd been tried six times.

And at first when we got this email, we were, you know, six trials is that? That can't possibly be true. But it was true.

When Madeline did a bit of digging, she found out that, yes, this guy, a man called Curtis Flowers,

had indeed been tried six times for the same crime. Six times for murder. And that immediately got our attention because we were thinking, how can that happen?

You know, what is going on in a case that would lead it to be tried six times?

The man, Curtis Flowers, had been convicted for the murder of four people who were all found

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