Unidentified and Waiting
America's Crime Lab
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
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 and law enforcement offices around the country?
America’s Crime Lab is a true crime podcast about how science solves cold cases, missing persons, and other unsolved cases. Hosted by journalist and clinical psychologist Elin Lantz Lesser, and powered by Othram’s forensic DNA lab, the show connects the science to the story, revealing what really happens in the lab and why it matters.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in the woods |
| 0:13.2 | of Knoxville, Tennessee. Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row. How does |
| 0:19.2 | someone prove that they deserve to live? |
| 0:21.8 | We are starting the recording now. |
| 0:23.7 | Please state your first and last name. |
| 0:27.1 | Krista Pike. |
| 0:28.8 | Listen to Unrestorable Season 2, Proof of Life, |
| 0:32.2 | on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:39.7 | Malcolm Gladwell here. This season on Revisionous History, we're going back to the spring of |
| 0:44.2 | 1988 to a town in northwest Alabama where a man committed a crime that would spiral out of |
| 0:50.0 | control. And he said, I've been in prison 24, 25 years. That's probably not long enough. |
| 0:55.4 | And I didn't kill them. From Revisionous History, this is the Alabama murders. |
| 1:01.5 | Listen to Revisionous History, the Alabama murders on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever |
| 1:07.8 | you get your podcasts. Are there any pictures of you online? |
| 1:11.4 | Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it. |
| 1:15.4 | Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm Dexter Thomas, host a Kill Switch. |
| 1:23.0 | A podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now. |
| 1:26.7 | Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect. |
| 1:32.3 | In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition, |
| 1:36.3 | and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars. |
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