When 4 employees of Tardy Furniture are brutally murdered in small town Mississipp, investigators feel pressure to find the person responsible and bring safely back to the town. Tunnel vision and some questionable practices lead to the arrest of Curtis Flowers. After 21 years, 6 trials, and multiple appeals later, Curtis is exonerated of the crime and all charges are dropped. The murders at TardyFurniture in 1996 remain unsolved to this day and the list of victims of the crime and the subsequent events continue to grow. Join us in the closet this week for the case of Curtis Flowers and The Tardy Furniture Murders.
*If you would like very in depth coverage on this case, you can listen to the podcast: In the Dark, Season 2.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Flowers
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2018/05/01/tardy-furniture-murders-what-happened
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/03/1034198690/curtis-flowers-mississippi-lawsuit-prosecutor-da-freed-prisoner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ueSnNsGTDE
https://populartimelines.com/timeline/Curtis-Flowers
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21362913/bertha-marie-tardy
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21955089/derrick-everett-stewart
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5599337/carmen-rigby
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33624749/robert-lee-golden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winona,_Mississippi
Starz Wrong Man, Curtis Flowers: Death Again, Season 1 Episodes 3 and 4 (2018)