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Updates on both seasons have been subsequently released. Joseph , Minnesota who was kidnapped and murdered on the night of October 22, Wetterling's case went unsolved for 27 years until his remains were discovered in a pasture near Paynesville, Minnesota on September 1, The location was revealed by Danny Heinrich, a long-time person of interest in the abduction of another boy, Jared Scheierl, in the nearby town of Cold Spring. On September 6, , Heinrich admitted to kidnapping and murdering Wetterling as well as the abduction and sexual assault of Scheierl.
Production on Season 1 had been underway for 9 months and was in its final stages it was scheduled to premiere on September 13, by the time Wetterling's remains were discovered and Heinrich confessed to the crime. The edits to the first two episodes of In the Dark turned out to be minimal, for by then, the reporting team's focus wasn't so much about who may have been responsible for Jacob Wetterling's disappearance but more about the investigation of the crime and its effects on the community. The team focused on systemic failures in the Wetterling investigation, in particular how the Stearns County Sheriff's Office handled not only the case but other similar cases.
The department's lack of transparency was partial inspiration for the series' title. As Madeleine Baran admitted to Esquire , with In the Dark , as opposed to other true crime podcasts such as Serial , "We [APM Reports] didn't see ourselves as playing the role of detective in the case. We saw ourselves as investigating the investigation.
The second season of In the Dark began with the release of its first two episodes on May 1, , with one new episode being released each Tuesday through July 3, Season 2 explored the legal odyssey surrounding Curtis Flowers , who was accused of shooting four people to death inside Tardy Furniture, a Winona , Mississippi store, in July Flowers, who had worked at Tardy Furniture for only a few days and who has long maintained his innocence, faced trial for the murders 6 times, with the first 5 trials seeing either convictions overturned on suspicious grounds or ending with hung juries.
The 6th and most recent jury trial, in , ended with Flowers' conviction on four counts of capital murder, though his case has been remanded on appeal by the United States Supreme Court to a lower court to review racial bias in jury selection. Much as In the Dark ' s first season focused on the conduct of those investigating Jacob Wetterling's disappearance, Season 2's storyline which began with an e-mail tip to APM Reports and led to a nearly year-long investigation pivoted from the murders Flowers has been tried and convicted for to the actions of the district attorney's office in Mississippi's Fifth Circuit Court District.
The actions of two figures in the D. Doug Evans who prosecuted Flowers and remains certain of his guilt and office investigator John Johnson lead investigator in the Tardy Furniture case. APM's investigation would reveal three actions by the D. Efforts to empanel all-white or majority-white juries against Flowers who is black ; the reliance on a key prosecution witness, Odell Hallmon, whose testimony that he heard Flowers confess to the murders turned out to be a falsehood; and the consideration of Flowers as the only suspect.
In regards to the latter, APM Reports revealed in the season's 10th episode that Evans' office withheld from the defense the fact that an "alternative suspect," Willie James Hemphill, was held for questioning in the case; Flowers' legal team would specifically cite APM's revelation as part of their appeal. In the Dark was honored in Spring with a Peabody Award , with the award's governing body applauding the program for its "immaculate storytelling talent and journalistic precision" in its investigation into the investigation of the Jacob Wetterling case as well as its "deftly incisive" way of telling the human side of the case and its broader policy implications.
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In the second two-parter, a heavily pregnant Helen is pulled into the dark side of urban Manchester as she deals with an unexpected tragedy. This article is about the British miniseries. Helen Weeks must return to the hometown she loathes to help her childhood best friend, who finds herself at the centre of a media frenzy following the abduction of two teenage girls. After re-examining the case, we'd found no direct evidence linking Curtis Flowers to the murders at Tardy Furniture. The story about the murder of an year-old boy, Rhys Jones in Croxteth, Liverpool, in and his parents, Melanie's and Steve's ordeal, and how Rhys's murderer and associates were eventually brought to justice.
Views Read Edit View history. This page was last edited on 8 November , at By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. A look at the Jacob Wetterling abduction itself, as well as early actions by the Stearns County Sheriff's Office that would hobble their investigation for decades to come. How investigators, rather than start in small circles, allowed the case to grow into a statewide and eventually national concern.
Jared Scheierl recalls his January assault by Danny Heinrich, as well as his efforts to investigate his own case which Heinrich wouldn't confess to until decades later. The Wetterling case gains national attention, as everyone from national journalists to talk show hosts to psychics get involved. Meanwhile, local investigators entertain farfetched vagaries.
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The investigation into the abduction of Jacob Wetterling yielded no answers for 27 years. Curtis Flowers has been tried six times for the same crime. In this episode, we meet the witnesses who said they saw Flowers walking through downtown Winona, Mississippi, the morning of the. In the Dark is a four-part British crime drama that premiered on BBC One from 11 July to 1 August The series is an adaptation of the Mark Billingham.
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Top Score View in iTunes. Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal View in iTunes. We answer your questions and report on a fire in Winona. Support investigative journalism with a donation to In the Dark. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Curtis Flowers' appeal.
Now the justices will examine if District Attorney Doug Evans had a history of racial discrimination in jury selection. In Season 1 of our podcast, we reported that the Jacob Wetterling case was a botched investigation. Just yesterday, law enforcement acknowledged it too. Support investigative journalism with a do 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. For the last episode of the season, we went to meet Jeffrey Armstrong, who, a few years after Curtis Flowers first went to prison, found what might have been a key piece of evidence. Prosecutors have always said that Curtis Flowers was the only serious suspect in the Tardy Furniture investigation. But we found a document showing that another man, Willie James Hemphill, had also After re-examining the case, we'd found no direct evidence linking Curtis Flowers to the murders at Tardy Furniture.
But we had one lingering question: How did Flowers become the main suspect? After investigating every aspect of the Curtis Flowers case, we were nearly ready to present what we'd found to District Attorney Doug Evans. But first we tried to learn all we could about him: The Trials of Curtis Flowers. There's one critical aspect of the Curtis Flowers case that we haven't looked at yet -- the makeup of the juries. Each of the four times Flowers was convicted, the jury was all white or nearly all Odell Hallmon, the state's key witness in the Curtis Flowers case, is serving three consecutive life sentences.
We wondered what he might say now that there are no deals to cut, and he will spend t No witness has been more important to the prosecution's case against Curtis Flowers than Odell Hallmon. He testified in four trials that Flowers had confessed to him while the two men were in priso Over the years, three inmates have claimed that Curtis Flowers confessed to them that he killed four people at the Tardy Furniture store.