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In The Dark

In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, is an award-winning investigative-journalism podcast that st

Episodes

Total: 64

Two months after the season ended, we return to Winona to see what has changed. Turns out, a lot. Cu

For the last episode of the season, we went to meet Jeffery Armstrong, who, a few years after Curtis

Prosecutors have always said that Curtis Flowers was the only serious suspect in the Tardy Furniture

After re-examining the case, we'd found no direct evidence linking Curtis Flowers to the murders at

After investigating every aspect of the Curtis Flowers case, we were nearly ready to present what we

There's one critical aspect of the Curtis Flowers case that we haven't looked at yet -- the makeup o

Odell Hallmon, the state's key witness in the Curtis Flowers case, is serving three consecutive life

No witness has been more important to the prosecution's case against Curtis Flowers than Odell Hallm

Over the years, three inmates have claimed that Curtis Flowers confessed to them that he killed four

Investigators never found the gun used to kill four people at Tardy Furniture. Yet the gun, and the

The case against Curtis Flowers relies heavily on three threads of evidence: the route he allegedly

On the morning of July 16, 1996, someone walked into a furniture store in downtown Winona, Mississip

Curtis Flowers has been tried six times for the same crime. For 21 years, Flowers has maintained his

The sentencing of Danny Heinrich on Nov. 21, 2016, brought to a close the 27-year investigation into

When Danny Heinrich confessed in court on Sept. 6 to abducting and murdering Jacob Wetterling and as

In November 2012, a police officer named Tom Decker was shot and killed in Cold Spring, Minn., after

Soon after the abduction and murder of Jacob Wetterling in 1989, Stearns County sheriff's investigat

In the 1970s and early '80s, missing children weren't considered a policing priority. You couldn't e

Dan Rassier now wishes he'd insisted that police search his family's St. Joseph farm top to bottom t

The Wetterling abduction story kept getting bigger as the case served as a conduit for public fear a