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December 12, 2018

Curtis Flowers' lawyers want answers from Doug Evans

In its latest filing, the defense team wants a chance to question the prosecutor under oath.

December 3, 2018

A fire in Winona

After Nelson Forrest spoke out about the Curtis Flowers case, his house went up in flames.

November 27, 2018

S2 Update: You asked, we answered

With the U.S. Supreme Court set to hear Curtis Flowers' appeal in the coming months, we thought it was a good time to answer some of the questions you've asked us since the end of Season 2.

November 5, 2018

Missouri leads the country in removing voters for 'mental incapacity'

People placed in adult guardianship can lose their right to vote, and in Missouri, this happens far more than in any other state.

November 2, 2018

Supreme Court agrees to hear Curtis Flowers appeal

In looking at the controversial Mississippi death penalty case, the justices will examine if District Attorney Doug Evans had a history of racial discrimination in jury selection.

November 2, 2018

People purged for not voting can cast ballots in Ohio

In a victory for voting rights advocates, a federal court ruling ensures some voters removed under the "use it or lose it" law won't be shut out on Election Day.

November 1, 2018

Former Confederate states have purged a growing number of felons from voting lists

Most of the country is making it easier for former felons to vote. But in the South, the number of voters removed due to felonies has nearly doubled in the past decade, an APM Reports analysis shows.

October 19, 2018

Georgia purged an estimated 107,000 people largely for not voting, an APM Reports investigation shows

A handful of states, most of them led by Republicans, are using someone's decision not to vote as the trigger for removing them from the rolls. No state has been more aggressive with this approach than Georgia, where Brian Kemp, the secretary of state, oversaw the purging of a growing number of voters ahead of his own run for governor, according to an APM Reports investigation. Voting rights advocates call it a new form of voter suppression, and they fear it will soon spread to other states.

October 8, 2018

What to do if your child's school isn't teaching reading right?

After our recent examination of why American kids aren't being taught to read well, we received a ton of questions, mostly from parents. So we went to the experts to get answers.

September 21, 2018

Why law enforcement didn't see that Danny Heinrich killed Jacob Wetterling

A new Stearns County sheriff let loose a condemnation of the investigation, declaring that there were "20 things" law enforcement bungled. This is a brief analysis of some of the key flaws of the investigation by the journalists who produced the first season of In The Dark, a podcast that first revealed many of the failures two years ago.

September 20, 2018

Law enforcement comes clean on botched Wetterling investigation

Two years after the first season of In The Dark revealed numerous mistakes by law enforcement investigating Wetterling's disappearance, the Stearns County sheriff provided harsh detail of his predecessors' failures and made public thousands of documents from the investigative file.

September 18, 2018

Why don't prosecutors get disciplined?

In most jurisdictions, district attorneys who break the rules are rarely held accountable.

September 17, 2018

Most states have done little to stop e-cigarette use among kids despite risk of nicotine addiction

Only 13 states are spending to stop vaping among teens. Others blame lack of funding, despite billions from the tobacco settlement over the years. Meanwhile, the FDA has begun to move against makers and sellers.

August 27, 2018

She was a first-generation college student looking for a different life

For Katy Sorto, college seemed like the way to a different life. But she had no idea how hard it would be.

August 20, 2018

Did going to college change your social class?

We asked some of our readers and listeners to tell us about their experiences with college and social mobility. Here are a few of their stories.

July 24, 2018

Cops' psychological testing cited in lawsuit

Family: Minneapolis didn't properly assess mental fitness of officers involved in daughter's death.

July 14, 2018

Lola Flowers dies, mother and source of spiritual support to son, Curtis, imprisoned on death row

For 21 years she regularly visited her son in Parchman prison and never gave up hope he'd be exonerated.

July 3, 2018

Execution in Mississippi: Who lives and who dies

Can Mississippi, with its ugly history of racial oppression, administer the death penalty fairly?

June 26, 2018

The saga of Bobby Joe Townsend

Not long after the Tardy Furniture murders, Doug Evans may have sent an innocent man to prison.

June 26, 2018

The other suspects: Who law enforcement did and didn't investigate in the Tardy Furniture murders

What an Alabama crime spree might reveal about the Curtis Flowers investigation.

June 26, 2018

Was there a Brady violation in the Curtis Flowers case - and why does it matter?

If prosecutors didn't turn over critical evidence to the defense, Curtis Flowers could get a new trial.

June 19, 2018

Why the eyewitness IDs of Curtis Flowers may not be reliable

Catherine Snow and Porky Collins picked Curtis Flowers out of photo lineups. But, according to two experts, the flawed procedures used by investigators make these identifications highly questionable.

June 19, 2018

John Johnson: The investigator in his own words

The most extensive record of Johnson talking about his work comes from a sworn deposition he gave in 1978 after he was sued in federal court.

June 12, 2018

The rise and reign of Doug Evans

How to spend nearly three decades in office.

June 12, 2018

Mississippi D.A. Doug Evans has long history of striking Black people from juries

We gathered data on juries in central Mississippi going back 26 years. Analyzing hundreds of trials, we found that prosecutors were more than four times more likely to exclude Black jurors.

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