In 1985, a University of Wyoming student was killed in her apartment. A new Serial audio documentary series grapples — again — with the unreliability of memory and the slipperiness of truth.
Above, storm clouds over downtown Laramie, Wyo., on Aug. 13, 2022.Serial's new true-crime podcast,Above, storm clouds over downtown Laramie, Wyo., on Aug. 13, 2022.In Kim Barker's memory, the city of Laramie, Wyo. — where she spent some years as a teenager — was a miserable place. A seasoned journalist with, a new audio documentary series from Serial Productions that brings her back into the jagged edges of her former home.
The cold case in question took place almost four decades ago. In 1985, Shelli Wiley, a University of Wyoming student, was brutally killed in her apartment, which was also set ablaze. The ensuing police investigation brought nothing definite. Two separate arrests were eventually made for the crime, but neither stuck. And so, for a long time, the case was left to freeze.
At the time of the murder, Barker was a kid in Laramie. The case had stuck with her: its brutality, its open-endedness. Decades later, while waylaid by the pandemic, she found herself checking back on the murder — only to find a fresh development.In 2016, a former police officer, who had lived nearby Wiley's apartment, was arrested for the murder on the basis of blood evidence linking him to the scene. As it turned out, many in the area had long harbored suspicions that he was the culprit.
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