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What Remains

by WRAL News | Raleigh, North Carolina
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Latest episodes

  • Paying the Price for DNA Testing

    August 31, 2022 · 30 min

    An unidentified man is found dead in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2010 in a rough part of town. Leads dry up quickly. The case goes cold. That is until one cold case investigator teams up with a forensic genealogist to solve the mystery…

  • Resolution | One of North Carolina's Oldest Cold Cases

    August 17, 2022 · 28 min

    In 1975, Priscilla Blevins vanished from her home in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her parents reported their adult daughter’s disappearance to the police, but investigators didn’t seem very interested. Priscilla’s file was only two pages…

  • A Murder Trial Without A Body

    August 10, 2022 · 28 min

    What is justice? For some people, it’s finding the missing remains of the person they love. For others, it’s convicting the person responsible for taking a life. Sometimes, it’s both. In this episode, we take you into the belly of the…

  • Missing in NC | What Happened to Cole Thomas?

    August 3, 2022 · 25 min

    Unlike most of this podcast, this is not a story about skeletal remains. In this case, no human remains have been found. Cole Thomas is officially a missing person, but his father knows in his heart his son is dead.  Imagine if your child…

  • The Art of Facial Reconstruction

    July 27, 2022 · 31 min

    When you think of an artist, drawing dead people is probably not the first thing that comes to mind, but that’s exactly what a forensic artist does. In this episode, we meet two forensic artists who piece together clues allowing them to…

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  • Part 2 DNA Profiling | Forensic Genealogy Dream Team Solves First Case

    July 20, 2022 · 27 min

    In 2005 young boys playing near an abandoned house in Harnett County, North Carolina found skeletal remains. More than fifteen years later those remains are identified thanks to the work of The Carolina Cold Case Coalition. In this bonus…

  • Part 1 DNA Profiling | The New Tool in Solving Cold Cases

    July 20, 2022 · 39 min

    Sitting in each state is a collection of skeletal remains, unnamed and gathering dust. These are cold cases that have proven to be uncrackable, unwilling to give up the secrets of who they are or what happened to them. Unsolved murders…

  • Cold Case Solved | The Boy Under the Billboard

    July 13, 2022 · 36 min

    Each investigator has that one case that haunts them, the one that just won’t budge. For Detective Tim Horne, the Billboard Boy was that case. He was just a young crime scene tech when the skeletal remains of a little boy were found…

  • Cold Case Solved | The 30-Year Mystery of Tent Girl

    July 6, 2022 · 28 min

    As a teenager, Todd Matthews had an unusual obsession. He was fascinated by the human remains found along the side of a highway in a small community in rural Kentucky. The woman had been wrapped in a tent bag, and the tale of Tent Girl…

  • The Body Farm

    June 29, 2022 · 32 min

    There’s this beautiful place in the mountains of North Carolina where death lives to tell a story. For people who have chosen to donate their body to science, their remains are laid out on the ground and left to decompose. Forensic…

  • What is Forensic Anthropology?

    June 22, 2022 · 37 min

    Dr. Ann Ross is surrounded by bones, literally. Everywhere you look in her osteology lab at North Carolina State University there are skeletal remains on metal tables laid out like jigsaw puzzles – a mosaic of hundreds of pieces that only…

  • Forensic Science Solves The Mystery of Baby Michael

    June 22, 2022 · 35 min

    More than twenty years ago, a newborn baby was found dead inside a garbage bag on the side of the road near a military base in North Carolina. The officers working to solve his murder called him Baby Michael, named for the patron saint of…

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About the show

True crime meets forensic science in the What Remains podcast from WRAL Studios. With no ID, human skeletal remains often end up at medical examiners’ offices where they sit in storage closets for years, gathering dust as evidence slowly disappears. These are some of the most difficult cold cases to crack. Unsolved murders. Missing people never identified. Families without answers. Every year in the United States there are 600,000 missing person reports and 4,400 sets of unidentified human remains are found. But matching the remains to the missing people is not an easy task.   Meet the passionate scientists, investigators and volunteers dedicating their lives to the seemingly impossible: matching missing persons to unidentified human remains. WRAL Studios presents What Remains, hosted by veteran crime reporter Amanda Lamb.