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In The Dark

Season Two: The Trailer

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.728.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Curtis Flowers has been tried six times for the same crime. For 21 years, Flowers has maintained his innocence. He's won appeal after appeal, but every time, the prosecutor just tries the case again. What does the evidence reveal? And how can the justice system ignore the prosecutor's record and keep Flowers on death row? Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark.

Transcript

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0:00.0

In February of last year, I got an email from a woman in Mississippi.

0:04.4

She wrote that there was a man there named Curtis Flowers,

0:08.2

who'd been tried six times for the same crime.

0:12.1

The evidence is iffy at best, she wrote.

0:15.0

The man didn't have a chance.

0:20.8

Curtis Giovanni Flowers murdered those four people.

0:24.9

There's no doubt in my mind.

0:27.3

And I think he needs a fry and hell where he's going.

0:30.6

If he was executed, would you go watch?

0:32.8

You damn right, I'd go watch.

0:34.3

I was ticked on the needle, Andy.

0:37.4

I mean, it's hard to trust his investigation.

0:39.7

It's hard to trust the people who ran it.

0:41.9

And it's hard to trust the prosecution trying this case.

0:45.4

Any way out of the facts, where's the proof?

0:48.1

Mississippi, Mississippi.

0:50.2

You know, we all know what goes on in Mississippi.

0:54.2

Once we get you in the courtroom, you hours.

0:57.5

If you're black, we got you.

1:00.7

The last one was full of empty filing cabinets.

1:03.1

And this one is full of records.

1:07.7

Just be cautious when you go progen some white people

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