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In The Dark

S2 Update: Q&A + A Fire in Winona

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.728.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

We answer your questions and report on a fire in Winona. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, this is Madeline Baron, host of In The Dark, and I'm here with our senior producer,

0:04.6

Samara Freemark. Hi guys, we are back with another update episode of Season 2 of In The Dark.

0:10.4

And in this episode, we're going to be doing something a little bit different than we usually do.

0:14.4

We're going to be taking questions from all of you. You guys have sent us questions on Facebook

0:19.5

and Twitter and email and some of you have even left voicemails for us. And we're really excited

0:25.2

to get to your questions. We're going to do that in just a few minutes. But first, I wanted to tell you

0:29.6

about my latest trip to Winona. I was there last month with our producer Natalie. We found out

0:35.0

something while we were there that we thought you might want to know. Every time we're in Winona,

0:40.4

we're invited to Sunday services at Winona Baptist Church. It's the oldest black church in town.

0:45.6

It's also this community hub. Lots of people go there.

1:00.7

So, this last time we were there, after the service ended, a woman came up to Natalie and told her

1:06.3

something. I didn't catch what it was, so Natalie and I got back into the car. She filled me in.

1:11.7

Okay. You said you had something to tell me? Yeah. I'm going to tell you this just in case this is

1:18.9

true. Okay. Does woman after church, she wouldn't tell me her name. She said that Nelson Forest's

1:26.0

house burned down a couple days after the funeral. What? No. Nelson Forest is the pastor who gave

1:36.6

the eulogy at the funeral of Curtis's mother Lola in July. The eulogy where pastor Forest told

1:42.8

people in Winona to put aside their fear and stand up for Curtis Flowers.

1:47.3

Second time, I'm scared folks. These are then now no crawls for you to be scared.

1:56.0

He wasn't scared. But you scared us. You stand for what was right.

2:02.0

So, when they asked you, when? Nelson Forest's house burned down after the funeral.

2:08.1

I mean, we could just drive by his house right now. Yeah, let's drive by.

2:15.1

Did she say anything else? She was like, I don't want to get mixed up in it because I don't want

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