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This episode won’t contain any new reporting about the Curtis Flowers case. We’ve made that kind of investigative news content available, for free, to all our listeners. So what’s in the episode? We’ll take you behind the scenes of one big day of reporting — the day the Supreme Court overturned Curtis’ conviction — and show you what goes into reporting and producing episodes of In the Dark. We’re thrilled to have Rebecca Lavoie, host of the podcast review show Crime Writers On…, as a guest host. She’ll interview Samara, Parker, Rehman and me about everything that happened on that day — and we’ll play some tape that you didn’t hear on the podcast. Listen to a trailer for this special episode.

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Madeleine