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How can one man be tried six times for the same crime?

Curtis Flowers has been tried six times for the same crime. For more than 22 years, he’s maintained his innocence, winning appeal after appeal. But every time Flowers’ conviction has been reversed, the prosecutor tried the case again. Reporters from American Public Media spent two years investigating the Flowers case to find out what the evidence really shows, and why the same prosecutor has tried the case again and again.

In the Dark: The tunnel

Factual: Crime & Justice

21/09/2019 GMT

The tunnel

BBC World Service - In the Dark, The tunnel

How a possible key piece of evidence in the case was found and went missing

Investigators never found the murder weapon used at Tardy Furniture. Years later, a gun was found just 200 meters from the store - and now that gun is missing.

A few years after Curtis Flowers first went to prison, a man living in Winona, Mississippi, named Jeffrey Armstrong found what might have been a key piece of evidence. What he found - and where he found it - offers hints that someone else could have committed the Tardy Furniture murders. Armstrong turned the potential evidence into the cops. And then, he says, it disappeared.

Hosted and narrated by Madeleine Baran.

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