Hey everybody, you Tyra.

Last week here at the top of the show,

I talked about the new podcast by our co-workers,

it's serial, it's called The Coldest Case in Jeremy.

This is the first time since serial season one

in the story of Adnan Sayed that serial is telling

the story of a murder and trying to figure out who did it.

Right now what we're gonna do is I'm gonna play you

the trailer and then we're gonna start today's show.

years ago when I was a teenager I lived in Laramie, Wyoming.

I've always remembered it as a mean town,

uncommonly mean, a place of jagged edges and cold people.

Where the wind blew so hard, it actually whipped pebbles at you,

actually pushed trucks off the highway.

Laramie stood in an elevation of more than 7,000 feet

and got so sucked in by winter storms,

it felt like we were trapped, like there was no way out.

The town's only high school, Laramie high,

was grim even by normal high school standards.

One of my classmates killed someone,

other students killed themselves.

Some boys were held down and branded with letters,

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