S2 E8: The D.A.

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 28.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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After investigating every aspect of the Curtis Flowers case, we were nearly ready to present what we'd found to District Attorney Doug Evans. But first we tried to learn all we could about him: his childhood, his years as a police officer and his record as district attorney. Then, finally, we met the man who's spent more than two decades trying to have Flowers executed. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.

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0:58.5	Conditions and exclusions apply. Just a note before we get started. This episode contains
1:03.3	a word that's offensive. Previously on In the Dark.
1:08.5	It's too long. Way too long. And Curtis Flowers is still in prison and he's still dragging
1:15.1	it down. All I ever want to do is get a fat trial. Get a fat trial and then we'll let
1:20.1	it go. I can't accept what I have on my head. I can't accept not being given a fat
1:23.8	trial. It's the only best dog evidence. It's not the unversed system. It is basically
1:31.5	Curtis Flowers and the person that dog evidence. And then Ian, who's going to win?
1:39.7	When I moved to Mississippi last summer, I figured it wouldn't be long before I ran into
1:44.1	the DA, Doug Evans. I was in his district nearly every day, talking to people about the
1:48.9	case of Curtis Flowers. Not a lot of other people that way, just by chance, driving around.
1:54.5	But I never saw Doug Evans just out around town.
1:58.9	And went to the courthouse in Winona. And sat in the courtroom. The same courtroom where
2:03.1	Curtis Flowers was tried. I sat through several days of court proceedings in the fall and
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