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Murdered while at Work: The Tardy Furniture Murders / Curtis Flowers
Golden Rule #3: Better Late than Never. Come with me to explore the case that stormed both the Mississippi and U.S Supreme Court a case where a District Attorney is willing to do anything for the win.
***Disclaimer I recorded this at 1 am so not judging lol***
Victims: Derrick Stewart, Robert Golden, Carmen Rigby, Bertha Tardy
Suspect: Curtis Flowers
Case Sources
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/12/16/bail-set-for-curtis-flowers-in-murder-case-overturned-by-supreme-court.html
https://socialistworker.org/2010/06/01/why-curtis-flowers-matters
https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/print/p_struggle_court.html
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2020/09/10/how-investigative-podcast-in-dark-helped-free-curtis-flowers/5747054002/
https://www.vulture.com/2018/07/in-the-dark-madeleine-baran-curtis-flowers-interview.html
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/16/race-and-the-death-penalty-supreme-court-to-hear-case-of-curtis-flowers-tried-six-times-for-quadruple-murder/amp/
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2018/08/02/curtis-flowers-innocent-pathologist-thinks-multiple-killers-behind-quadruple-murder/813262002/
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2020/09/04/curtis-flowers-not-face-7th-trial-mississippi-ag-says/5721228002/
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/01/06/mississippi-district-attorney-leaves-murder-case-after-multiple-trials
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/03/1034198690/curtis-flowers-mississippi-lawsuit-prosecutor-da-freed-prisoner
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2020/10/13/in-dark-podcast-air-curtis-flowers-first-interview-since-release/5939911002/
https://www.wlbt.com/2021/08/06/curtis-flowers-other-side-freedom/?outputType=amp
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2020/10/05/can-curtis-flowers-receive-compensation-wrongful-imprisonment/3536421001/
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2023/06/29/mississippi-district-attorney-doug-evans-who-excluded-black-jurors-is-resigning-after-over-30-years/70369822007/
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/11/16/victims-families-say-enough-enough/19155263/
https://www.wcbi.com/winona-resident-react-to-fridays-supreme-court-ruling/
https://heavy.com/news/2019/06/curtis-flowers/
https://www.starherald.net/breaking-news-kosciusko-attala-county-front-page-slideshow/rigby-tardy-furniture-victims-deserve
https://witnessla.com/the-troubling-relationship-between-prosecutorial-misconduct-death-penalty-exonerations/
https://murderpedia.org/male.F/f/flowers-curtis.htm