S2 E20: Curtis Flowers

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 28.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

During three years investigating the Curtis Flowers case, we’d talked to nearly everyone involved: lawyers, witnesses, jurors, family members, investigators, politicians, and many, many people around town. But there was one person we hadn’t yet interviewed — Curtis Flowers. That is, until one day in early October, a few weeks after he’d been cleared of all charges. For the final episode of Season 2, we at long last talk to the man at the center of it all.

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0:00.0	It's been more than three years since I got an email from a woman telling me about a man
0:12.1	named Curtis Flowers.
0:13.5	In the time since, it moved to Mississippi, interviewed hundreds of people, examined every
0:19.4	piece of evidence in the case against him.
0:22.8	And yet, in all that time, there was one person that was never able to really talk to.
0:29.8	Until now.
0:33.5	So we are in the car on our way to talk to Curtis Flowers.
0:38.1	Believe it or not, after all this time.
0:41.9	Kind of, kind of crazy.
0:45.7	I'm Madeline Barron, and this is the final episode of season two of In the Dark.
0:53.4	Curtis Flowers.
0:55.4	All right.
0:59.2	The other day, I took a drive.
1:01.5	I can't tell you exactly where I was, but I got out and set up in a backyard with the
1:06.6	rest of the In the Dark crew, and I waited.
1:10.8	And then, hello.
1:11.8	Hi.
1:12.8	How are you doing?
1:13.8	Nice to see you.
1:14.8	Good morning, Curtis.
1:15.8	I wish I could shake your hand, but I can't because of COVID.
1:20.2	Kind of.
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