UNSOLVED - A True Crime Podcast · Kristy Kramer

Laura Wilson

·39 min·3 clips
In 1978, police destroyed every piece of evidence in Laura Wilson's murder case, erasing any chance of solving it.
Host Kristy Kramer returns to Michigan Unsolved with the case of Laura Wilson, a 16-year-old girl who disappeared in 1972 after going to a corner store in Detroit. Her body was found nine days later, bludgeoned and sexually assaulted, but all evidence was destroyed in 1978, leaving the case unsolvable and highlighting systemic failures in historical crime investigations.

As heard by us

A grieving, conversational account of Laura Wilson's case that keeps the human details in view.

Christy Kramer treats Laura Wilson's case as a quiet errand that ends in devastation: a young girl sent to a corner store with 63 cents in food stamps, wearing the clothes she had on, and carrying the kind of ordinary details that make the loss land harder.

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