9 episodes
The Coldest Case In Laramie Serial
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- True Crime
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4.0 • 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
Thought provoking
Unlike a TV show, we get an opportunity to hear real interviews about a crime, some are police interviews to suspects. We hear the emotion in everyone’s voices. We have a chance to sense whether we believe the person or not. We get to hear how specific sentences have been pulled out to incriminate Fred Lamb and hear the change in attitude towards the police from a young black football player at the time of his interview and 30 years later.
And, as the podcast wraps us, we learn how peoples memories may not be the same as they remember. Similarly to when you have witnesses of a car crash and people may have vastly different perceptions of what the cars and drivers were doing.
Worthwhile podcast to hear the unsolved story and why it remains difficult to solve. I agree with the writer about who may really be responsible for Shelli’s murder.
Complete incompetence
A story of incompetence on all parts. The so called confession does nothing but help a good defense attorney prove police incompetence. A prosecutor’s office and PD that released so much information it made a trial a defense attorney’s dream. This podcast giving out of the facts that should never be out just makes a prosecution case even harder. Fred probably did it but he played with an inept interviewer and set himself up to say he was brow beaten till he gave in. I feel sorry for the prosecutor that has to take this case based on the facts in this podcast.
Who did it?
Thanks for your professional & unbiased opinion, Kim Barker.
RIP, Shelly.