About This Episode
What is this episode about?
The episode "Curtis Flowers Has Died" from In the Dark delivers news that Curtis Flowers, the man at the center of the show's Season 2 reporting, was found dead in his home in Winona, Mississippi, at age fifty-six. The nine-minute update is a brief, direct dispatch rather than a full investigative episode, conveying tragic news that reached the team that week.
Hosts and release
Madeleine Baran hosts In the Dark, the investigative journalism podcast published by The New Yorker that has, since its 2016 debut, examined cases including the abduction of Jacob Wetterling, the conviction of Curtis Flowers, and the killings in Haditha. This update, episode 22, runs 9 minutes and was released as a short follow-up tied to the show's earlier Season 2 coverage of the Flowers case. The series is available on Apple Podcasts and Audible, with its most recent full season, Season 3, released in 2024. This particular episode functions as a brief notice to listeners who followed the original reporting, informing them of Flowers's death rather than introducing new investigative material or reopening questions explored in the earlier season. It stands as a short coda to a case the show spent considerable time investigating, marking the end of a chapter that had followed Curtis Flowers for years through the podcast's reporting on his conviction and its aftermath in Winona, Mississippi.
