As of Friday afternoon, the Journal Sentinel’s “Unsolved” podcast was no. 3 among iTunes’ top podcasts.

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A Journal Sentinel podcast that traces a Milwaukee-area cold case homicide is one of the top podcasts on iTunes as of Friday afternoon.

In "Unsolved: A murdered teen, a 40-year mystery," reporter Gina Barton traces the case of the murder of 14-year-old Franklin High School student John Zera through decades of dead ends and false starts in the search for the killer. The seven-part weekly serial also appeared in print and online.

"The success of the Unsolved podcast really shows how our newsroom has adapted to new ways of telling stories," said George Stanley, editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "It offers readers an even deeper look at the story and the reporting behind it — and allows them to take it with them in their car, to the gym, wherever they may go."

The podcast can be listened to at the Journal Sentinel's website, on iTunes, and Stitcher Radio. Other podcasts produced by the newspaper are: the Milwaukee Bucks podcast, the Packers Podcast with McGinn and Cohen, JS on Politics and Behind the Headlines. This week's episode of Behind the Headlines, which is available Sunday, will feature an adaptation of the annual Christmas story by the Journal Sentinel's Greg Borowski.