On the morning of July 16, 1996, at Tardy Furniture in Winona, Mississippi, four people were found shot execution-style. Victims were 42-year-old employee Robert Golden, store owner Bertha Tardy, and employees Carmen Rigby and Derrick Bobo Stewart. The killings shocked the small town and began a long investigation.

In January 1997, former Tardy Furniture employee Curtis Giovanni Flowers was arrested and charged in the four murders. Prosecutors relied largely on circumstantial evidence, including witness testimony and a bloody footprint found at the scene. Over the following years Flowers was tried multiple times; convictions were repeatedly overturned on appeal amid findings of legal errors and concerns about racial discrimination in jury selection.

Those events left the Tardy Furniture murders a central, unresolved trauma in Winona. Did anyone who lived or worked in the town at the time notice unusual activity around the store before July 16, 1996?