S2 E3: The Gun

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 28.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Investigators never found the gun used to kill four people at Tardy Furniture. Yet the gun, and the bullets matched to it, became a key piece of evidence against Curtis Flowers. In this episode, we examine the strange histories of the gun and the man who owned it. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.

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1:01.8	It was a six-hole puzzle. I told the pieces in and it fit. We didn't find a gun, but we
1:11.8	found a project house. The ones that don't believe it didn't pay attention to the evidence.
1:18.8	They had a downpap for me. So all I had to do was go there and they
1:24.0	gave me the question and I was scared, but it was the police. So I'm feeling good.
1:29.2	I know I didn't get any wrong because I don't know if it doesn't get any trouble.
1:32.0	Everybody just disappeared. Rebacked out. Because it sounded like it's the threat right
1:37.8	at the university. It was a threat. I just wish that I had it. It shouldn't have
1:44.1	happened. I hate my name. I don't like it. And I just want to live a normal life. I hate
1:51.1	it.
1:58.1	There's something I haven't told you yet. Something else that happened in Winona, Mississippi
2:03.1	on July 16, 1996, the day of the murders at Tardy Furniture. That morning, around 1030,
2:11.1	maybe a half hour or so after the murders. A man named Doyle Simpson finished work. Doyle
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