The Ann Gotlib Case, Pt. 1: Little Girl, Vanished

Around 4:30 on the morning of Christmas Eve 1881, a woman in Ashland, Ky., looked toward her neighbor's house and thought she saw lamplight. It was fire. By the time neighbors forced their way inside...

18 Aug 28min

"He made bad choices." That's what Joseph Smith's family says they were told, in one form or another, from the night he died forward. On March 5, 2021, the 25-year-old was shot and killed in a parkin...

28 Juli 28min

Kentucky authorities considered the Joseph Smith case resolved. A grand jury declined to indict. The file was closed. His family was told he made bad choices. But the closer Smith's cousin Keeshia He...

14 Juli 17min

In any homicide investigation, the physical evidence doesn't take sides. It can contradict. It can clarify. And sometimes, it raises questions that the official record leaves unanswered. In Part 2 of...

30 Juni 15min

Season 2 of Kentucky Case Files begins with a case that state authorities consider closed — but Joseph Smith's family does not. On the night of March 5, 2021, 25-year-old Joseph Smith was fatally sho...

16 Juni 24min

On March 5, 2021, a 25-year-old man named Joseph Smith was shot and killed in a grocery store parking lot in Upton, Kentucky. The man who shot him claimed self-defense. No arrest was ever made. No cha...

9 Juni 57s

Some stories live on through investigation — others through art. In the season one finale of Kentucky Case Files, Marcus Roland and Emily Steele sit down with Louisville author Ellen Birkett Morris, ...

9 Dec 202519min

What did it mean to search for a missing child in 1983 — and how has that changed today? In The Ann Gotlib Case, Pt. 2: How We Find Missing Kids, Then and Now, hosts Marcus Roland and Emily Steele ex...

25 Nov 202519min