S2 E5: Privilege

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 28.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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No witness has been more important to the prosecution's case against Curtis Flowers than Odell Hallmon. He testified in four trials that Flowers had confessed to him while the two men were in prison together. Hallmon has an astonishingly long criminal history that includes repeated charges for drug dealing, assault, and robbery. So how reliable is his testimony and did he receive anything in exchange for it? In this episode, we investigate the veracity of the prosecution's star witness. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.

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1:04.2	you to do. And some put you to sell with Curtis Flow. And you can get some information
1:09.6	on him that he did that murder. I let you go. Well, we got him cooking monster. And
1:17.4	as he grew, they took the monster off and just said, cooking. Oh, they got away with everything.
1:24.8	He got privilege, a lot of privilege. The bottom is the voluntary statement from
1:31.3	O. Dale Hall. No metal name, also known as Koot. A weird contact in us. It's involuntary
1:38.3	in the statements that correct. We have a promising reward or a smooth treatment or nothing.
1:45.5	It was a press. One day last October, I drove out to an old jail in the town of Carrollton,
1:56.7	Mississippi. Okay. At the old jail, the jail's been closed for about 20 years. It was built
2:02.2	right after the Civil War in 1870. It's a two story brick building with bluish gray
2:07.5	paint peeling off it and barred windows in the front. Our reporter Parker had gotten permission
2:12.9	from the sheriff for us to go in. She got there before me. Hello. Hi. Bring your flashlight.
2:24.3	Is there any electricity in here at all? Uh, in this building, I don't think so. Parker
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