9 episodes
The Coldest Case In Laramie Serial
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- True Crime
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3.9 • 2.3K 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
Bad police job , not great reporting either
This started out well , but fell apart . His wife thought Fred did it . She blamed it on PTSD & his navy seal training Vietnam . Fred Lamb claimed he’d killed someone in wartime and then Shelley . Now he says he didn’t and oh by the way he wasn’t a seal . The other people in the case were doubted on their memories , but Fred and Linda weren’t . After this happened the police only wanted the African Americans ons the football team and the Hispanics bad boys as their suspects. They investigated the roommate who wasn t there as if she was a crime . They didn’t even think it was odd a married drunk policeman staying with a friend who’s DNA was on site .
The police “ lost” lots of evidence and the only detective , Terry , who did a thorough job on the case believes the ex policeman did it . The police deserve a lot more scorn than they got. I think this podcast gave the family hope , then came up believing it wasn’t. That interview the Lamb’s was soft . The reporter indicates she may be leaning toward Fred .But at the very end , the last minute it’s Larry ?
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I was unable to keep up with the first episode due to all of the commercial breaks. Without even knowing where the series is going, I would have been willing to pay rather than face multiple breaks per episode. Shame, regardless of where the story goes I would have been happy to listen more.
Great story
Loved this story. So many twists and turns. Not at all what I expected. Thoroughly enjoyed every minute. I’m currently looking for more of Kim’s reporting.