9 episodes
The Coldest Case In Laramie Serial
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- True Crime
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4.5 • 48 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
Excellent
An expert and unassuming inquiry into the fog of memory, assumption and evidence afflicting cold cases. Not what you were expecting, and better for it. An awesome piece.
Thank you Kim Barker
Thanks for this a beautiful well written piece.
Great sound and pleasant to listen to.
Questionable Ethics
I enjoyed the podcast until episode seven. I found the host confronting witnesses and questioning their recall troubling. She’s a journalist, not a psychologist. I don’t think she should have challenged their recall without a professional with expertise in memory and recall present. I’m not sure what her research process was (and whether the host has some any training relating to recall and how memories are stored) but as a Psychologist I found the interviews where she challenged the witnesses concerning.
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