9 episodes
The Coldest Case In Laramie Serial
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- True Crime
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4.0 • 3.4K 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
Questionable Approach
I think the reporter leaned too heavily into finding doubt and raising dubious questions in a quest to make this case seem more complicated than it is. The blood evidence and Fred’s confession point overwhelmingly to one highly probable conclusion and yet Kim seemed determined to make his guilt look improbable. I found myself yelling at her in my car - “why on earth are you helping a guilty man go free?”
Painfully Boring
An excruciatingly boring reminder that not every story needs a podcast.
too much mention of pandemic
I’m a pro-vaxxer, pro-masker, pro-believe-science, etc. etc. but my god, why am I only 3 episodes into this story and I’ve already heard mention of the pandemic 4 times now. if the story were about the pandemic, then yes of course I can understand why that topic is being repeatedly brought to life in this series. but it’s not, and each mention kind of just weighs it down. we all lived (and lost!) during that period of time, and it doesn’t need to be mentioned upon staging every scene. it takes away from what is an otherwise riveting story. deducting two stars for overwhelming and unnecessary mention of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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