9 episodes
The Coldest Case In Laramie Serial
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- True Crime
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4.2 • 269 Ratings
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Kim Barker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times, revisits an unsolved murder that took place while she was in high school in Laramie, Wyoming, nearly 40 years ago. She confronts the conflicting stories people have told themselves about the crime because of an unexpected development: the arrest of a former Laramie police officer accused in the murder.
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Episode 1
A Times investigative reporter, Kim Barker, revisits the murder of Shelli Wiley — a long-unsolved case from Kim’s time in high school. She reaches out to Shelli’s family to understand why the police arrested a man named Fred Lamb for Shelli’s murder in 2016, and why prosecutors abruptly dropped the charges against him.
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Episode 2
Kim talks to Shelli’s former roommate, who connects Kim with a man who was at the crime scene and has troubling memories about Fred Lamb and the police.
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Episode 3
Kim heads to Laramie and hears two very different versions of the case against Fred Lamb.
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Episode 4
Kim digs into the early stages of the investigation into Shelli’s murder and follows up with old suspects.
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Customer Reviews
Lie detector
I feel at the end, the final interview with Fred, a very important question was missed. He told the police, the lie detector technician, colleagues friends he was a SEAL. It turns out he was not ever a SEAL.
He admitted to killing someone on the lie detector test and passed. How could he not be asked how he admitted to killing someone on the lie detector test and it was not picked up as a lie?
Bingo Worthy Story Telling
I binged this entire series over the weekend. Kim is a fantastic narrator and her factual story telling with some personal feelings and opinions added are so listenable.
I’m always hoping for the happy ending, the bad guy gets caught and goodness is restored when I start listening to these series but the truth is mistakes get made by the police and evidence isn’t always looked at in a timely manner, charging and convicting the wrong person is a bigger crime to me, there are too many wrongful convictions so if the evidence isn’t there than Mr Lam needs to be left alone.
I hope that Kim does additional podcasts.
Pretty Boring
The monotone narration was not it in my opinion. It felt over dramatic and theatrical in a way that didn’t do anything for me. Hard to say any investigative journalism actually happened, they just read the police case and called some people up. Story itself was interesting but not told in an interesting way. Long clips of interviews without much actual commentary was just meh for me. Nothing really had me wanting to keep listening, I was just determined to finish it because of the case. Maybe some people would enjoy this but I felt like it was a waste of time.
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