S2 E4: The Confessions

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 28.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Over the years, three inmates have claimed that Curtis Flowers confessed to them that he killed four people at the Tardy Furniture store. But they've all changed their stories at one time or another. In this episode, we investigate who's really telling the truth. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.

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0:00.0	previously on In the Dark.
0:03.4	They thought that he did it.
0:06.5	Never they thought.
0:07.9	That's what they didn't say he did it.
0:11.7	But I think on the first day, that's what they went with the investigation.
0:16.0	They was questioning.
0:18.4	It was a tick-sol puzzle.
0:20.5	I told the pieces in and they fit.
0:23.3	The ones that don't believe it.
0:25.9	They didn't pay attention to evidence.
0:27.9	Asked me was I trying to buy him over home.
0:31.4	Asked me if I knew what $30,000 could buy.
0:35.4	They ended everything with this money to let me know that it's on the table.
0:42.4	He never did hang around much at all no more than.
0:46.9	I think that he knew he just told, you know, he told the store on Curtis.
0:51.4	I think that Curtis should have been out long time ago.
1:06.9	About six months after the murder is at Tardi Frenniture,
1:10.4	a guy named Morgan McClurge was arrested for stealing.
1:13.9	He wound up in a jail cell in La Flora County, Mississippi.
1:17.9	The cell that Morgan was placed in was overcrowded.
1:20.4	There were three bunks.
1:21.9	The cell was supposed to fit six people.
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