Madeleine Baran, left, the host and lead reporter of the podcast “In the Dark,” interviews Curtis Giovanni Flowers for the first time since his murder charges were dropped in October 2020. The podcast, which highlighted the many missteps throughout Flowers’ case, has been downloaded more than 40 million times.
Curtis Giovanni Flowers, a Black man whose six trials for murder in Mississippi became a landmark case for racial bias in jury selection, has died, according to the Montgomery County coroner.
Flowers was 56.
