Season 2 Update: Five Years Later

After nearly twenty-three years behind bars, Curtis Flowers was freed, in part due to In the Dark’s reporting. Now he’s back in Winona, Mississippi, where his saga began. What brought him home, and how is he doing? We visited him to find out. New Yorker subscribers get new In the Dark episodes early and ad-free.

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Season 2 Update: Five Years Later is an episode from In the Dark by The New Yorker.

This episode is 44:26 long.

This episode was published on Oct 8, 2025.

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