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 is back Tuesday for its second season. (The Peabody award-winning podcast's 

 was about the investigation into Jacob Wetterling's kidnapping). 

This season looks at the prosecution of a Mississippi man, Curtis Flowers, who's been tried six times for the same crime and the prosecutor who's spent two decades trying to execute him. 

The crime is a quadruple murder in the small town of Winona, Miss. On July 16, 1996, four employees at a furniture store were found shot in the head, execution-style. 

Investigators soon turned their focus on Flowers, who worked at the furniture store for a few days. Prosecutors say he had a motive, but they don't have any good evidence: no witnesses, DNA evidence or gun. 

The team of In the Dark reporters, led by Madeleine Baran, take listeners on a journey to Mississippi to figure out how it's possible for a man to spend 22 years behind bars while defending his innocence before jury after jury. 

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This season of In the Dark, back Tuesday, is about the prosecution of a Mississippi man who's been tried six times for the same crime and the prosecutor who's spent two decades trying to execute him.

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