
What Remains
Claim This Podcastby WRAL News | Raleigh, North Carolina
Podcast Overview
<p>True crime meets forensic science in the What Remains podcast from WRAL Studios. With no ID, human skeletal remains often end up at medical examiners’ offices where they sit in storage closets for years, gathering dust as evidence slowly disappears. These are some of the most difficult cold cases to crack. Unsolved murders. Missing people never identified. Families without answers. Every year in the United States there are 600,000 missing person reports and 4,400 sets of unidentified human remains are found. But matching the remains to the missing people is not an easy task. Meet the passionate scientists, investigators and volunteers dedicating their lives to the seemingly impossible: matching missing persons to unidentified human remains. WRAL Studios presents What Remains, hosted by veteran crime reporter Amanda Lamb. </p>
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August 15, 2023
NEW PODCAST: The Killing Month August 1978
<p><span class="TextRun SCXW122801297 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122801297 BCX4">The events that took place in Chester County, Pennsylvania in August 1978 were unthinkable. Family killing family. A father calling for the murder of his own son. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122801297 BCX4">For </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122801297 BCX4">years</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122801297 BCX4"> The Johnston Gang got away with everything—theft, burglary, violence—until the brazen attacks of August </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122801297 BCX4">1978 crossed a line, and the family crime empire began to crumble. Host and writer Amanda Lamb shares her own memories of the murders and the trials that followed. Her father was the lead prosecutor who helped bring the killers to justice.</span> </span><span class="TextRun SCXW122801297 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122801297 BCX4">A fictional account of The Johnston Gang’s downfall was portrayed in </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW122801297 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122801297 BCX4">the 1986 movie “At Close Range</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122801297 BCX4">,” but this is the </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW122801297 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122801297 BCX4">real</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW122801297 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122801297 BCX4"> story of a violent</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW122801297 BCX4"> family crime operation and the long task of bringing its leaders to justice.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW122801297 BCX4" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> <p><span class="EOP SCXW122801297 BCX4" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"><span class="TextRun SCXW17712661 BCX4" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17712661 BCX4">You can listen to THE KILLING MONTH AUGUST 1978 ad-free and exclusively on </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SpellingErrorHighlight SCXW17712661 BCX4">Wondery</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17712661 BCX4">+. Join </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW17712661 BCX4">Wondery</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17712661 BCX4">+ in the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW17712661 BCX4">Wondery</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17712661 BCX4"> App or on Apple Podcasts.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW17712661 BCX4"> </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW17712661 BCX4" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559685":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":259}"> </span></span></p>

December 21, 2022
E20 Seeking Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
<p>Indigenous woman are ten times more likely to be murdered than the rest of the population in some parts of the US. More than 4 in 5 indigenous women experience violence in their lifetime. These are simple facts, facts that Brittany Hunt and Chelsea Locklear who are members of the Lumbee Tribe are trying to understand. They started “The Red Justice Project” podcast to shed light on these cases. In this episode, they share their insights on why they believe indigenous women are more often murdered and the cases are rarely solved. We also dive into the case of an indigenous woman whose skeletal remains were found in a storage unit in Durham, North Carolina in 2016, but were not identified for five years. Find episodes of The Red Justice Project here <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-red-justice-project/id1529944821">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-red-justice-project/id1529944821</a></p> <p>arv3bqmd</p> <p> </p>

December 7, 2022
E19 Crowdfunding Cold Cases
<p>Carla Davis isn’t your typical American living the good life in Dubai. While we sleep, she teases the knots out of stubborn cold cases as a self-taught forensic genealogist. But she doesn’t just give her time and talent, she opens her wallet. Carla has become one of our country’s leading cold case philanthropists, a group of people who are changing the outcomes of many of these cases by helping pay for DNA testing. In this episode Carla shares why she’s committed to forensic DNA analysis and takes us on a journey from solving her own family mystery to solving one of the most stubborn, high-profile cold cases in recent history. </p>
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<p>True crime meets forensic science in the What Remains podcast from WRAL Studios. With no ID, human skeletal remains often end up at medical examiners’ offices where they sit in storage closets for years, gathering dust as evidence slowly disappears. These are some of the most difficult cold cases to crack. Unsolved murders. Missing people never identified. Families without answers. Every year in the United States there are 600,000 missing person reports and 4,400 sets of unidentified human remains are found. But matching the remains to the missing people is not an easy task. Meet the passionate scientists, investigators and volunteers dedicating their lives to the seemingly impossible: matching missing persons to unidentified human remains. WRAL Studios presents What Remains, hosted by veteran crime reporter Amanda Lamb. </p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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