![]() Initially, Hemphill refused to provide further details of his whereabouts on July 16, 1996. When reporters talked to Hemphill last year, he said investigators cleared him because he had an alibi - he called it "airtight." He said: "If it wasn't for the fact that I had an airtight alibi, I could be the one on death row right now." Nothing in the investigative file for the case explains why officers let him go. Records show he was questioned - Hemphill said he was interrogated for hours - and held for 11 days before being released. In the Dark has previously reported that Hemphill was an initial suspect in the days after the July 1996 murders in Winona, Mississippi. And he was undeterred, at first, when he was told that Woods hadn't corroborated his story. Hemphill seemed surprised when reminded that he'd told In the Dark in June 2018 that he was with an old friend named Twanda Woods. They wanted to ask him about his alibi for the day of the Tardy Furniture murders, an alibi that hadn't checked out. Supreme Court would overturn Curtis Flowers' conviction - and reporters for In the Dark had intercepted Hemphill at a courthouse in Indianapolis. It was June 21 - just an hour before the U.S. Where was Willie James Hemphill on the morning of the Tardy murders?Īt first, Willie James Hemphill was calm. Supreme Court having overturned Flowers' conviction and a seventh trial possibly looming, prosecutors have lost their two most important witnesses. That's what it all boiled down to," Hallmon said. Last year, Hallmon also recanted to In the Dark, saying that he told District Attorney Doug Evans what the prosecutor needed so he could receive leniency for his own crimes. As a prosecution witness, Fleming was second only in importance to jailhouse informant Odell Hallmon, who testified in four trials that Flowers confessed to committing the murders. I was scared I was going to go to jail."įleming's testimony was critical to the state's case against Flowers in all six trials because her statements placed him near the scene of the crime on the morning of July 16, 1996. "I've been confused of the day from the beginning. ![]() "The whole time I've been telling them, I don't remember the day," Fleming said. She said she's never known what day she saw Flowers running. That's because, in an interview with In the Dark last week, Fleming recanted her testimony. Six times Clemmie Fleming has taken the witness stand to testify that she saw Curtis Flowers running from Tardy Furniture in Winona, Mississippi, on the morning that four people were murdered there. ![]() Clemmie Fleming becomes second major witness to recant in Curtis Flowers case ![]()
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