previously on In The Dark. John Johnson all I want is a conviction and he said I'm

going to play no taxes and get him and I hugged his neck and I said bring his

eyes back. You'll get him plus convicted. The prosecutor did a good job he really

did. I don't think he could have done anybody else could have done a better job

and his investigator did a good job. He's very professional.

Was your state free and volunteer? He showed me creative flyers,

picture like a school, school, picture. How many photos did they show you? How many

pictures did they show you? It was. It was a flower picture. So are you confident

that you have the right person that Curtis Flowers is guilty? That I will answer

definitely no question at all. In the summer of 1996 Curtis Flowers was 26

years old and he was looking for work and Curtis found out that a store called

Tarty Furniture was hiring. They needed someone to help out delivering

furniture and doing odd jobs. Curtis was offered the job and he took it. It was a

simple decision. Curtis Flowers accepting a job offer to work at a family

owned furniture store. By all accounts he didn't give it much thought. But this

decision to take a job at Tarty Furniture would change the rest of Curtis's

life. It could even result in his death because the reason law enforcement

suspected Curtis of the murders so quickly and why they kept investigating him

for so long can all be traced back to what happened in the three days that

Curtis worked at Tarty Furniture.

This is season two of In the Dark, an investigative podcast by APM reports. I'm

Madeline Barron. This season is about the case of Curtis Flowers, a black man

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