The Coldest Case In Laramie

About The Coldest Case In Laramie

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. To get full access to this show, and to other Serial Productions and New York Times podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, subscribe at nytimes.com/podcasts.   To find out about new shows from Serial Productions, and get a look behind the scenes, sign up for our newsletter at nytimes.com/serialnewsletter.    Have a story pitch, a tip, or feedback on our shows? Email us at serialshows@nytimes.com

Publisher

Serial Productions & The New York Times

Category

news · society & culture · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Feb 2023

Latest episode

23 Feb 2023

Latest episodes

9 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Feb 2023

   Episode 8

   Kim interviews Fred Lamb and takes a fresh look at the case.

2. 

   23 Feb 2023

   Episode 7

   Kim takes stock of the evidence against Fred Lamb and gets to the bottom of the stories she’s heard about him —  including one from his wife of more than 30 years.

3. 

   23 Feb 2023

   Episode 6

   Kim examines the bizarre interrogation that led to Fred Lamb’s arrest.

4. 

   23 Feb 2023

   Episode 5

   Kim talks to someone who confessed to Shelli’s murder from a jail in Arizona.

5. 

   23 Feb 2023

   Episode 4

   Kim digs into the early stages of the investigation into Shelli’s murder and follows up with old suspects.

6. 

   23 Feb 2023

   Episode 3

   Kim heads to Laramie and hears two very different versions of the case against Fred Lamb.

7. 

   23 Feb 2023

   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.

8. 

   23 Feb 2023

   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.

9. 

   16 Feb 2023

   Trailer

   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. All eight episodes of "The Coldest Case in Laramie," a new show from Serial Productions and The New York Times, are available on Thursday, February 23rd wherever you get your podcasts.

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