The Coldest Cold Case
A frozen corpse. A melting glacier. A 5,000-year-old crime scene. Nate talks with Brenda Fowler about Ötzi the Iceman and how modern science helped uncover the life, death and secrets of one of history’s most famous archaeological discoveries.
Episode 112 of the The Show About Science podcast, hosted by Jason Paris, Brenda Fowler, titled "The Coldest Cold Case" was published on February 10, 2026 and runs 24 minutes.
February 10, 2026 ·24m · The Show About Science
Summary
A frozen corpse. A melting glacier. A 5,000-year-old crime scene. Nate talks with Brenda Fowler about Ötzi the Iceman and how modern science helped uncover the life, death and secrets of one of history’s most famous archaeological discoveries.
Episode Description
In 1991, hikers in the Alps spotted what looked like a doll frozen in the ice. It wasn’t a toy. It was a body. What police thought was a recent accident turns out to be something far stranger.
In this episode, Nate talks with author and journalist Brenda Fowler about the discovery of Ötzi the Iceman and the science that helped unravel his story. What can one frozen body teach us about early human civilization? Much more than you’d think.
Brenda is the author of Iceman Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier.
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