"On the morning of July 16, 1996, someone walked into a furniture store in downtown Winona, Mississippi, and murdered four employees. Each was shot in the head. It was perhaps the most shocking crime ever carried out in the small town. Investigators charged a man named Curtis Flowers. What followed was a two-decade legal odyssey in which Flowers was tried six times for the same crime. He remains on death row, though some people believe he's innocent. For the second"
"The case against Curtis Flowers relies heavily on three threads of evidence: the route he allegedly walked on the morning of the murders, the gun that investigators believe he used, and the people he supposedly confessed to in jail. In this episode, we meet the witnesses who said they saw Flowers walking through downtown Winona, Mississippi, on the morning of the murders. Some of their stories now waver on key details."
On July 16, 1996, four employees at a Winona, Mississippi furniture store were shot in the head. Investigators charged Curtis Flowers, who has maintained his innocence for more than twenty years. Flowers faced six trials over two decades and won appeals, but prosecutors repeatedly retried the case. The prosecution relied on three main threads: an alleged walking route, a gun linked to the killings despite the weapon never being found, and purported jailhouse confessions. Witness accounts and forensic links show inconsistencies. The case exposes racial divisions in the town and serious questions about evidence and prosecutorial conduct.
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