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In The Dark

S2 E10: Discovery

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.728.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

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 he? Why was he questioned? When we finally found Hemphill, living in Indianapolis, he had some very surprising things to say about the case. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.

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Conditions and exclusions apply. Previously on In the Dark.

1:02.3

It was a big soul puzzle. I told the pieces in and it fit. Well, okay, we didn't find

1:08.7

a tennis sheet. We found a tennis shoe box. The evidence was, you just had that set down,

1:15.7

listen to it with open mind and then come back and we've heard it.

1:19.5

You know, when everyone basically knows the guy's guilty, how much more evidence do

1:24.5

you need? So do you remember like telling them like it

1:27.8

Curtis were fearless? No, I did not say that. I put that on my shoes and I did not say

1:34.8

that. I don't know about no shoes, no murder, no nitty. You never saw him wearing like

1:39.5

fearless or anything like that. So are you confident that you have the right person

1:44.0

that Curtis flowers his guilty? That I will answer definitely. No question at all.

1:49.5

One day a few months ago, I went to see a man named Kenny Townsend. He was a police officer

2:04.1

in Winona back in 1996. And he was one of the first people on the scene at Tardy Furniture

2:09.7

on the morning of the murders. Kenny Townsend told me that when he showed up at Tardy Furniture,

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