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America's Crime Lab

America's Crime Lab

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You might not know the name Othram, but if you’re the family of a victim looking for resolution, or a detective haunted by a case you just couldn’t solve, Othram is your best hope. The cutting edge company uses a fraction of the DNA needed by other services to solve cases, and they’re specialists at filtering out noise from a sample– whether it’s identifying remains from ashes in a burnt down house or identifying DNA in a vat of sewage. The crimes are horrific, but the science is stunning: the company has closed the book on everything from high-profile serial killings to 60-year old cold cases; they’ve helped the military identify sons and daughters unidentifiable on the battlefield, and they’ve reunited branches of families that had long ago lost hope. And they’re just getting started.

Each week, we meet weary detectives and family members as we run through a cold case that had wrecked a community and seemingly hit a dead end… until, in a last ditch effort, the evidence is mailed to Othram. Then we ride along as the team uses revolutionary techniques to extract DNA and crack open a decades-old case. Across the show, we spotlight the marvels of the science, but also the peace that victims’ families finally get after decades of anguish looking for answers.

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  • Forgotten: Women of Juárez Trailer
    May 22 2020

    In the famous border city of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, hundreds of women go missing. The ones that are found have strange symbols carved on their bodies. Some have their wrists bound with shoelaces. All are discarded like garbage. The story of Forgotten investigates what or who is responsible — a serial killer, organ traffickers, a Satanic Cult? — and pursues an investigation with law enforcement on both sides of the border, terrified witnesses, and corrupt authorities.

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    2 mins
  • FORGOTTEN - EP 1: A Cross-Border Killer?
    Jun 1 2020

    Episode 1 - For the last three decades, women have gone missing in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, right across the border from El Paso, Texas. Some are found later, bearing the telltale signs of a serial killer. Hosts Oz Woloshyn and Mónica Ortiz Uribe begin their investigation into who could be responsible for these horrific crimes. We speak with the FBI’s former top agent on the border, as well as the journalist who’s gone the farthest in investigating the killings, Diana Washington Valdez. And we visit the family of Sagrario González Flores, whose murder remains unsolved.

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    40 mins
  • FORGOTTEN - EP 2: Selection
    Jun 1 2020

    Episode 2 - Oz and Monica explore the case of Lilia Alejandra Andrade, whose abduction and murder revealed disturbing evidence that connects to other crimes. We meet the former Chief of Forensics in Juárez, to learn why he warned of a serial killer. And Diana shares disturbing details of how the victims were selected.

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    34 mins
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This is by far one of the best podcast I have ever heard. These women deserve justice, they deserve a voice. This podcast is giving them that.

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Especially right now, as an American I’m aware I have a great ignorance on real life experience with border towns, on either side, and their histories, this podcast helped me to understand some things better, and while it’s so unbearably sad, there’s a lot of hope and a lot to learn from the mostly female characters — journalists, academics, activists, agents and victims involved in the femicides. So much to admire and so important to hear. I highly recommend.

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Didn't need all of the amateur opinions on economic policy and armchair policy preaching. Was a great podcast otherwise.

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