In a sea of true crime podcasts, In The Dark stood out for not aiming to uncover a murderer, but to shine a light on the criminal justice system and the effect a crime has on the wider community.
Season one of the podcast from Madeleine Baran and her team at APM Reports focused on the abduction and murder of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling, the way the authorities investigated the crime, and the effect Jacob’s death had on law. The series won a Peabody Award for its reporting – and if the quality of season two is anything to go by, the APM Reports team could be in for more honours.
Season two of In The Dark is all about the case of Curtis Flowers – a black man in Mississippi who has been tried six times for the murder of four people in the Tardy Furniture store in Winona. Flowers has denied committing the murders in 1996, but the District Attorney Doug Evans has sought to have him sentenced to the death penalty in five of six trials. After being convicted in the first…
