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Welcome to Othram aka "America's Crime Lab." Each week, we meet weary detectives and family members working an unsolved case that has wrecked a community and seemingly hit a dead end… until, in a last-ditch effort, the evidence is mailed to Othram.
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New from Kaleidoscope: Mind Games - Episode 1. The Guru's Guru.
What if someone told you that you could skip years of therapy with a few mental tricks? It sounded impossible… until we found Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP is a form of hypnosis beloved by…
S1E19 One River, Two Bodies
A trucker calls police to report seeing a body floating in a Mississippi River. When police arrive to investigate, they’re shocked to find a little girl dead in the river brush. They’re even more…
S1E18 Project 525: Missing and Murdered Children
Othram began to realize that a lot of unidentified remains cases languishing on shelves in law enforcement offices belonged to children. Children that remained unidentified for decades. Meanwhile,…
S1E17 Fan Favorite: A Boat, A Fire and the Signature in the Ashes
Emergency crews responding to a boat fire discovered human remains, but the case quickly went cold. For decades, investigators had no answers. Using advanced forensic DNA, Othram scientists were able…
S1E16 Unidentified and Waiting
People swept away by Hurricane Katrina, lone travelers who disappeared, and kids who never came home. Where are all of these missing people, and are their unidentified remains sitting in universities…
S1E15 Little Miss Nobody
A little girl is kidnapped from her grandmother’s yard. Her family searches for decades, hoping to find her. 62 years later, detectives call with information. But it’s not what anyone expected. …
S1E14 The Skull in the Wall: DNA Reveals Esther Granger’s Story
In Illinois, a DIY home renovation uncovered a human skull hidden inside a wall. When the case went cold, the remains sat for decades on a museum office shelf, forgotten and unidentified. Years…
S1E13 Crimes in Two Cities: The Sumpter Siblings Cold Case
In Atlanta, the brutal rape and double homicide of siblings left detectives with plenty of evidence but no suspect. For years, the case went cold. Then, a violent crime in Michigan revealed new DNA…
S1E12 New Forensic Details From the Idaho Student Murders - Part 3
Weeks after the violent murders of four University of Idaho students, investigators followed a trail of DNA evidence from Moscow to Pennsylvania. A midnight police stakeout tied a graduate student to…
S1E11 New Forensic Details From the Idaho Student Murders - Part 2
When four University of Idaho students were brutally murdered in their Moscow home, investigators faced a nightmare. DNA evidence from the crime scene pointed nowhere, leaving the case cold.…
S1E10 New Forensic Details From the Idaho Student Murders - Part 1
The brutal murders of four University of Idaho students in Moscow stunned the college town and launched a nationwide search for answers. Detectives uncovered a crucial piece of DNA evidence at the…
S1E9 The Disappeared Part 2
Nearly thirty years after gay men go missing from nightclubs in Indianapolis, one man’s call to the new coroner in town sets off an investigation into what happened at Fox Hollow. Now, there’s a…
S1E8 The Disappeared Part 1
Young gay men begin disappearing from downtown Indianapolis. One by one, missing persons fliers go up, and rumors spread about a serial killer. Families are frustrated by a lackluster investigation.…
S1E7 Candy Rogers, Part 2: DNA Solves Spokane’s 62-Year Mystery
The search for nine-year-old Candy Rogers haunted Spokane for generations. Could the killer’s family hold the final clue to solving the case? And just how far would detectives need to dig for the…
S1E6 Candy Rogers, Part 1: Spokane’s Missing Persons Cold Case
In 1959, nine-year-old Candy Rogers went missing while selling mints in Spokane, Washington. The city mounted one of the largest missing persons searches in state history, yet the case remained…
S1E5 What Remains: DNA Identifies the Victim in a Boat Fire Cold Case
Emergency crews responding to a boat fire discovered human remains, but the case quickly went cold. For decades, investigators had no answers. Using advanced forensic DNA, Othram scientists were able…
S1E4 Carla Walker, Part 4: A Confession and the Power of DNA Evidence
In the final chapter of Carla Walker’s story, detectives sit down with their prime suspect. What follows is a slow, tense interrogation, and a long-delayed confession. Host Elin Lantz Lesser and…
S1E3 Carla Walker, Part 3: DNA Evidence Identifies a Suspect
In Part 3 of our Carla Walker investigation, a decades-old DNA sample is reexamined at Othram’s lab, leading to a breakthrough. Host Elin Lantz Lesser and producer Catherine Fenollosa walk us through…
S1E2 Carla Walker, Part 2: A Cold Case Reopened by DNA Evidence
Nearly 50 years after Carla Walker’s murder, Fort Worth detectives decide to reopen the case. In Part 2, host Elin Lantz Lesser and producer Catherine Fenollosa trace how a persistent cold case…
S1E1 The Case of Carla Walker: How DNA Evidence Revived a 46-Year-Old Murder Investigation
Carla Walker’s brazen abduction after her high school Valentine’s dance shocked Fort Worth. The case went cold for decades. In Part 1, host Elin Lantz Lesser and producer Catherine Fenollosa walk…
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America's Crime Lab has published 21 episodes since July 2025, covering topics in History, Society & Culture.
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