S2 E11: The End

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 28.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

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 he found it -- offers hints that someone else may have committed the Tardy Furniture murders. Armstrong turned the evidence into the cops. And then, he says, it disappeared. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.

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0:00.0	This is the last episode of Season 2 of In the Dark, an investigative podcast from APM
0:19.7	reports.
0:21.2	I'm Madeline Barron.
0:23.7	This season is about the case of Curtis Flowers, a black man from a small town in Mississippi
0:29.9	who spent the past 21 years fighting for his life, and a white prosecutor who spent
0:37.8	that same time trying just as hard to execute him.
0:50.2	One day I went with our producer Samara to find a man named Jeffrey Armstrong.
0:56.0	We wanted to talk with him about something we'd heard he'd found many years ago.
1:02.0	Jeffrey Armstrong lived out in the country on a winding road on the outskirts of Winona.
1:08.4	It was dusk by the time we arrived.
1:10.8	Jeffrey Armstrong came out on the porch.
1:13.1	He's a white guy in his early 50s with blue eyes and a bald head.
1:16.9	He was wearing a white sleeveless t-shirt and shorts.
1:20.2	We stood out on the porch.
1:24.4	There were some dogs wandering around the yard.
1:26.8	And Jeffrey Armstrong told us the story of what he said he'd found one day in 2001,
1:33.9	five years after the murders at Tarty Furniture.
1:37.6	Jeffrey Armstrong told us that he was over at his mother's house in Winona, over on a street
1:42.2	called Nock Street, when he heard their dog patches in the backyard.
1:45.9	And he'd come out and he was just barking, raising cane, scratching, and my mom said,
1:49.9	I can't see with that dog, when it back yard and he had drove a 380 pistol out of my
1:54.9	house.
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