This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of W NYC Studios and the New Yorker.

Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Last year the team behind

the podcast in the dark joined us at the New Yorker. Now you might have heard

their extraordinary series about Curtis Flowers, a black man in Mississippi who spent years on death row.

Flowers was tried six times for the same crime.

After in the dark examined every twist and turn of that prosecution,

the Supreme Court overturned Flowers his conviction entirely. The show has won two Peabody Awards as well as a George Polk

Award, one of the top honors in journalism. That was the very first ever given to

a podcast. The new season of In the Dark has been four years in the

making and it's the most ambitious work they have ever done. They travel to

21 states and three continents to report on a story that the world has largely

forgotten.

And I'll mention that some of the details are difficult to hear about.

You should use discretion if you're listening with children.

Here's Madeline Barron, the lead reporter for In the Dark. Two years ago I went to a rock to talk to a man about what sounded like a murder.

It had happened almost 17 years earlier.

The killing of the man's sister, his nephew,

so many others. 24 people in all. It was a killing that had gone

unpunished, where not a single person had ever gone to prison, a killing committed by US Marines. The man whose family was killed is named Kalad Salmane Receif.

He met me in the lobby of a hotel in the city of Erbil or Rock.

We headed up to a room with our producer Samara Freemark and our interpreter a woman named

Ayamathana.

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