On the morning of July 16, 1996, a quadruple homicide shattered downtown Winona, Mississippi. Inside Tardy Furniture, owner and civic leader 59-year-old Bertha Tardy was found shot in the head alongside employees Carmen Rigby, 45, and Robert Golden, 42. A fourth victim, 16-year-old Derrick Bobo Stewart, was mortally wounded and died a week later.

Investigators focused on a former employee, Curtis Giovanni Flowers, who had been fired days before the killings. Police say a gun matching the caliber of the murder weapon was stolen from Flowers’ uncle’s car the day of the crime and that some witnesses placed Flowers near the store that morning. Flowers was arrested in January 1997 in Texas.

Prosecutions stretched across more than two decades with six trials prosecuted by District Attorney Doug Evans; convictions, death sentences, appeals and reversals followed, with courts finding prosecutorial misconduct and racial discrimination in jury selection. Charges were later dropped and no one else has been charged. Does anyone have information about the case or memories of Tardy Furniture and those who worked there?