S2 Update: Back to Winona

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 28.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Two months after the season ended, we return to Winona to see what has changed. Turns out, a lot. Curtis Flowers' mother has died. The whole town is talking about the case. Flowers' defense lawyers are including our findings in their legal filings to the Supreme Court. Citizens are trying to file bar complaints against the district attorney, Doug Evans. One man has gone into hiding, his personal safety threatened because he spoke to us. In this update episode, we look at what's happened in Winona since our last episode and what happens next with Curtis Flowers' case. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.

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0:26.9	Slack.com slash DHQ. New Year, new me. Nah, I'm fine just the way I am. Doing the things
0:35.3	I love, like enjoying a latte on the bus with some music or on a walk with a friend. My
0:42.7	only resolution is to enjoy more of what I love, like switching up my usual with oat,
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0:59.5	Yeah. Free-credits flower, man. I might mess up a little bit. Yeah. Okay, listen.
1:12.5	Torje man for a murder and you ain't got the evidence. They're every day prosecute.
1:16.9	They treat him like a president. Man, they're my CDEG wicket. No red shower. See,
1:21.5	a child. They said a bin three, cut the flower. It's been two and a half months since the final episode
1:26.5	of season two of In the Dark was released. And a lot has happened since then. Not just in the case
1:31.9	of Curtis Flowers, but also in the town of Winona, Mississippi. Curtis's lawyers have cited
1:37.4	our reporting in court filings. Some people are considering filing bar complaints against
1:42.1	the DA Doug Evans. And some people are trying to spread the word about Curtis' case in new
1:47.1	ways, like with this song. And so in this update, I'm going to tell you about all of it. I'm
1:53.6	Madeline Barron, and this is a special update episode of In the Dark.
1:58.3	I'm glad the world ain't so cold just like it used to be. I'm speaking for the flower
2:01.9	family nearby to my community. Two weeks ago, I went to talk to the man who wrote this song.
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