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Dark Downeast
Dark Downeast: Maine and New England's True Crime Podcast digs into the decades-old and modern day cases that prickle the history of Vacationland and beyond – the unsolved homicides, undetermined deaths, unexplained disappearances and other dark stories of New England. Investigative journalist and storyteller Kylie Low gets straight to the story with a mix of narrated episodes and documentary style production featuring interviews with surviving family and friends and insight on the…
Episodes
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UNSOLVED: The Murder of Roberta "Bobbie" Miller (New Hampshire)
In the fall of 2010, Roberta “Bobbie” Miller was starting over. She had a new home in Gilford, New Hampshire, she was back in school, and she was making plans…
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The Murders of Boston’s Combat Zone (Massachusetts)
Judy Belfrey. Kathy Williams. Holly Davidson. Melodie Stankiewicz. Four young women whose lives crossed the same few blocks of Boston in the 1970s, and whose…
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The Disappearance of Bianca Lebron (Connecticut)
If there is any case where you wish you could turn back the clock and change just one small decision, it might be the disappearance of Bianca Lebron. There…
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The Murder of Michelle Gardner-Quinn (Vermont)
Why talk about a case that was solved years ago? Because the answer to who did it isn’t the only thing that matters. One night in October 2006, a college…
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The Suspicious Death of Kasha Blount (Massachusetts)
On a Saturday morning in 1990, the body of a teenager was found on a dead-end street in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The scene raised…
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The Murder of Nancy Ann Frenier (Rhode Island)
A young mother disappears just days before Christmas. More than a year later, another woman is murdered across state lines. The cases seem separate – different…
Dark DowneastINTRODUCING: The Truth About Natalie
Host Sean Kipe investigates the 2020 disappearance of 27-year-old Georgia mother Natalie Jones, who vanished after a July 4th lake party. Her car and remains…
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The Murders of Gloria Gough & Evelyn "Penny" Deans (Maine and South Carolina)
In August of 1972, 44-year-old Gloria Gough left her home in Gardiner, Maine after a late-night phone call and vanished. Two days later, more than a thousand…
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The Suspicious Death of Nicole Parsons-Bucki (Rhode Island)
On a morning when the country’s attention was fixed on unimaginable tragedy, a Rhode Island family was learning that someone they loved was gone. In the hours…
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The Murder of Michael Cochran (Maine)
On an ordinary winter night in 1981, danger was moving through the Bangor, Maine area in three different directions at once. A barroom dispute was followed by…
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The Disappearance of Melanie Melanson (Massachusetts)
In a small New England city, a teenager disappeared after a night in the woods, and almost immediately, the story of what happened fractured.The last people…
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The Murder of Judith Whitney (New Hampshire)
There are cases that frustrate you because the evidence is thin. And then there are cases where the warning signs seem to be everywhere, but the system still…
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The Disappearance of Edward Sprenkle Dubbs Jr. (Connecticut)
Some people disappear from a place you can picture right away: a house, a road, a parking lot, a stretch of woods. But in the case of Edward Sprenkle Dubbs…
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The Disappearance of Dr. Margaret Kilcoyne (Massachusetts)
Sometimes, on an island, the only witness is the water. In January of 1980, a brilliant Columbia doctor went to her home on Nantucket’s remote east end…
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UNSOLVED: The Disappearance of Ryan Blagojevic (Maine)
When someone has been missing for more than thirteen years, it can start to feel from the outside like the story has stopped moving. Like whatever answers…
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The Murder of Victoria Cushman (Rhode Island)
Victoria Cushman was just 29 years old when she was found murdered inside her Warwick, Rhode Island apartment, just steps from the sporting goods store where…
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The Murder of Trish Haynes (New Hampshire)
In the summer of 2018, Trish Haynes disappeared from New Hampshire. Or at least, that’s what the public knew. Investigators searched a rural property, then…
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The Murder of Valerie Tieman (Maine)
In 2016, the disappearance of Valerie Tieman became one of the most talked-about cases in Maine in the last decade. At first, there was room for hope, and…
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The Murder of Martha Brailsford (Massachusetts)
On a Friday afternoon in July of 1991, Martha Brailsford told friends she was going sailing. In coastal Massachusetts at what is often the peak of summer heat…
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The Murder of Estella Brantley (Connecticut)
Estella Brantley’s murder should have been urgent from the beginning. She was found in one of Bridgeport’s most visible public places, around witnesses who may…
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The Murder of Rose Marie Moniz (Massachusetts)
Sometimes, a case can have evidence, a suspect, and a theory investigators believe explains what happened yet a family is still left without the ending they…
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The Murder of Pamela Brown (Vermont)
On a summer weekend in 1982, Barre, Vermont was crowded with music, traffic, and thousands of people moving through town for an annual festival. Somewhere in…
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The Murder of Kathleen Flynn (Connecticut)
For nearly 40 years, Kathleen Flynn’s murder has haunted Norwalk, Connecticut. She was 11 years old, newly in middle school, walking home on a familiar path…
Dark DowneastINTRODUCING: CounterClock Season 8
In February 2008, six women were held hostage in a women’s clothing store in Tinley Park, Illinois.. Rhoda McFarland, Carrie Hudek Chiuso, Connie Woolfolk…
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The Disappearance of Patrick Merrill (New Hampshire)
One spring evening in 1987, a college student got into a green car in Plymouth, New Hampshire and vanished. His friends believed he was coming back. His family…
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The Suspicious Death of Phil Williams Jr. (Maine)
For more than 30 years, Pam Williams believed she knew how her brother died. She was told it was a medical event. The kind of tragedy no one could have…
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The Murder of Carol Ann Barlow (Rhode Island)
Some cases appear straightforward at first glance. A late-night crash on a quiet road, a damaged car, and a victim who doesn’t survive. It is the kind of…
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The Murder of Christine Hurlburt (Massachusetts)
It started like so many Saturday nights at Mountain Park – music, crowded dance floors, and teenagers trying to stretch the night a little longer before…
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STILL UNSOLVED: The Disappearance of Regina Brown (Connecticut)
Regina Brown disappeared under troubling circumstances in April of 1987. She was a former flight attendant, a devoted mother of three young children, and a…
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The Murder of Claire Gravel (Massachusetts)
On a Saturday night in late June of 1986, a 20-year-old college student went out with friends in a familiar place, celebrating her softball team’s big win. But…
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The Murder of Laurie Gonyo (Vermont)
In the fall of 1976, a woman vanished from her home in rural Vermont sometime between a cup of morning coffee and the end of an ordinary workday. What followed…
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The Murder of James Cassidy, Part 2 (Maine)
Fifty years after James Cassidy’s death, there is still no simple explanation for his brutal murder. The evidence left behind in the Maine woods raised…
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The Murder of James Cassidy, Part 1 (Maine)
In April of 1976, an anonymous call to a sheriff’s department in Maine alerted investigators to something almost impossible to imagine: a burning station wagon…
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The Murder of Brenda Warner & Charlene Ranstrom (New Hampshire)
On a fall morning in 1988, police in Nashua, New Hampshire walked into an apartment and found two women murdered in their bed. What followed seemed, at first…
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The Murder of Joan Wertkin (Connecticut)
On a rainy night in late May 1989, a fire was spotted in a Westport, Connecticut parking lot. Within minutes, first responders realized the impossible: a body…
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The Murder of Lucia Kai Roberts (Massachusetts)
On an August evening in 1982, children playing in Boston’s Franklin Park stumbled onto a scene that would quietly become one of the city’s most troubling…
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The Murder of Abraham Levine and Trial of Eleanor Johnson (Maine)
On a quiet Saturday night in 1931, a 19-year-old cattle dealer sat at his desk to write a check that he never got the chance to finish signing. Investigators…
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The Disappearance of April Grisanti (Connecticut)
Before she vanished, April Grisanti was a young woman trying to find her footing. Then, over the course of one winter night in 1985, she disappeared in plain…
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The Murder of Joseph Woodside (New Hampshire)
In November of 1979, a man was found beaten to death along a quiet trail in a New Hampshire college town. Within a day, police had a suspect, but the case was…
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The Murder of Debra Stone (Rhode Island)
For more than forty years, Debra Stone’s murder lingered in the uneasy space between knowing and proving. An informant came forward early on with a story that…
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STILL UNSOLVED: The Murder of John Evers Robinson (Connecticut)
In December of 2024, I shared an episode about a 24-year-old musician whose life was cut short in New Haven, Connecticut in 1990. More than three decades…
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The Murder of Mark Knapp (Vermont)
When Mark Knapp’s routine commute home from work one February night in 1984 ended with his car abandoned and his body at the bottom of an old marble quarry…
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The Suspicious Death of Cam Lyman (Rhode Island)
Cam Lyman vanished in the summer of 1987, leaving behind a forty-acre estate, dozens of prizewinning dogs, and a silence that would stretch on for more than a…
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The Murder of Brandi "Amy" Sullivan (Massachusetts)
17-year-old Brandi “Amy” Sullivan was used to coming and going. She was restless, independent, and always in motion. So when she didn’t come home in the summer…
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The Murder of Elizabeth Sterling Seeley (Connecticut)
Every now and then I uncover a case buried deep in the archives with circumstances that prove truth is stranger than fiction. This story is one of them. When a…
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The Murder of Shirley McAvoy (Maine)
In late summer of 1990, a mother in central Maine seemed to slip quietly out of her own life. Shirley McAvoy had been navigating a painful separation, leaning…
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The Murder of Mary Monsell (Connecticut)
More than a century ago during the winter of 1923, a quiet Christmas in East Hartford, Connecticut took a devastating turn that would echo far beyond that…
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The Murder of Judith Lord (New Hampshire)
Some cases linger for years not because the truth is hidden, but because the tools needed to prove it aren’t yet strong enough. Evidence waits on shelves…
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The Murder of John E. Volungis Jr. (Massachusetts)
On a winter night in early February of 1992, John E. Volungis Jr. was standing on the edge of a brand-new life. After years of working toward a career in law…
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The Murder of Peggy Flynn (Rhode Island)
It was early January in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, when a discovery in a quiet stretch of woods changed a family forever. A young woman had crossed paths…
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STILL MISSING: The Disappearance of Reina Carolina Morales Rojas (Massachusetts)
November 26 marks three years since Reina Carolina Morales Rojas disappeared after getting into a car in East Boston, Massachusetts. She was later dropped off…
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The Murder of Bernard Egounis (New Hampshire)
One ordinary day during August of 1983, in a quiet patch of parkland just off the road in Penacook, New Hampshire, a teenager found something that didn’t…
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The Disappearance of Tina Stadig (Maine)
In the spring of 2017, the phone calls came almost every day. Tina Stadig always stayed in touch with her twin sister, no matter where life had taken her. The…
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The Suspicious Death of Christina Lunceford (Massachusetts)
In late July 2004, 20-year-old Christina Lunceford walked into her parents’ home beaming with excitement. She had just signed the lease on a new apartment with…
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The Murder of Eugenio DeLeon Vega (Connecticut)
The murder of Eugenio DeLeon Vega marked the beginning of a three-decade legal odyssey that exposed flaws in Connecticut’s criminal justice system and raised…
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The Murder of Craig "Cooley" Jackman (Vermont)
On a winter night in 1981, a teenager stepped out of his Essex Junction home and never returned. His disappearance unsettled the quiet Vermont town, leaving…
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The Murder of Deanna Cremin (Massachusetts)
It should have been a routine school night in Somerville, Massachusetts for 17-year-old Deanna Cremin. Homework, TV, and a walk home with her boyfriend before…
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The Disappearance of Wilfred "Butch" King III (Vermont)
After spending an early Friday evening hunting in the woods behind his home in Vermont, Wilfred “Butch” King III left his home on two crutches, driving off…
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The Murders of Rosalie Miller & Mindy West (New Hampshire)
When two women known to spend time in Manchester, New Hampshire’s inner city both dropped out of contact with their families in the late 1990s, it wasn’t…
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The Disappearance of Attiin Rachmawati Shaw (Maine)
In early 2023, pleas for help reached the small Aroostook County town of Washburn, Maine from across the world in Indonesia. Family members and friends of…