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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 investigations from detectives and sources who know these cases best. This is heart-centered, ethical true crime, bringing light to stories you’re not hearing on other podcasts. It is Dark Downeast's mission to honor the legacy of the humans at the heart of each story and bring new attention to the cases still awaiting justice.
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The Murder of Carol Ann Barlow (Rhode Island)
May 14, 2026
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 situation people think they understand, and…
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The Murder of Christine Hurlburt (Massachusetts)
May 07, 2026
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 heading home. But sometime before midnight on…
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STILL UNSOLVED: The Disappearance of Regina Brown (Connecticut)
Apr 30, 2026
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 woman whose life had become increasingly…
The Murder of Claire Gravel (Massachusetts)
Apr 23, 2026
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 in a narrow window of opportunity just…
The Murder of Laurie Gonyo (Vermont)
Apr 16, 2026
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 was years of suspicion, rumor, and…
The Murder of James Cassidy, Part 2 (Maine)
Apr 09, 2026
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 questions investigators have never fully…
The Murder of James Cassidy, Part 1 (Maine)
Apr 02, 2026
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 hidden off a remote road, and what…
The Murder of Brenda Warner & Charlene Ranstrom (New Hampshire)
Mar 26, 2026
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, like a case that would never truly reach…
The Murder of Joan Wertkin (Connecticut)
Mar 19, 2026
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 was burning in the open. Not long after…
The Murder of Lucia Kai Roberts (Massachusetts)
Mar 12, 2026
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 unsolved cases. The victim was a 16-year-old…
The Murder of Abraham Levine and Trial of Eleanor Johnson (Maine)
Mar 05, 2026
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 were left with more questions than…
The Disappearance of April Grisanti (Connecticut)
Feb 26, 2026
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 sight. Witnesses saw her struggle. Police…
The Murder of Joseph Woodside (New Hampshire)
Feb 19, 2026
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 hardly open and shut. The college…
The Murder of Debra Stone (Rhode Island)
Feb 12, 2026
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, in hindsight, mapped almost every…
STILL UNSOLVED: The Murder of John Evers Robinson (Connecticut)
Feb 05, 2026
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 later, the murder of John Evers Robinson…
The Murder of Mark Knapp (Vermont)
Jan 29, 2026
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, the shock rippled far beyond one family…
The Suspicious Death of Cam Lyman (Rhode Island)
Jan 22, 2026
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 decade. Friends and family disagreed on…
The Murder of Brandi "Amy" Sullivan (Massachusetts)
Jan 15, 2026
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 of 1996, her family tried not to panic…
The Murder of Elizabeth Sterling Seeley (Connecticut)
Jan 08, 2026
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 prominent Bridgeport, Connecticut woman…
The Murder of Shirley McAvoy (Maine)
Jan 01, 2026
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 on friends and trying to rebuild a sense…
The Murder of Mary Monsell (Connecticut)
Dec 25, 2025
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 holiday. Mrs. Mary Monsell never arrived for…
The Murder of Judith Lord (New Hampshire)
Dec 18, 2025
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, memories shift, and flawed forensic science…
The Murder of John E. Volungis Jr. (Massachusetts)
Dec 11, 2025
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 enforcement, John was about to take off…
The Murder of Peggy Flynn (Rhode Island)
Dec 04, 2025
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 with a violent killer close to home. The…
STILL MISSING: The Disappearance of Reina Carolina Morales Rojas (Massachusetts)
Nov 27, 2025
November 26th marks three years since Reina Carolina Morales Rojas disappeared after getting into a car in East Boston, Massachusetts. She was later dropped off in nearby Somerville and that was the…
The Murder of Bernard Egounis (New Hampshire)
Nov 20, 2025
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 belong. What followed rippled through the…
The Disappearance of Tina Stadig (Maine)
Nov 13, 2025
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 last time they spoke, Tina talked about…
The Suspicious Death of Christina Lunceford (Massachusetts)
Nov 06, 2025
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 her boyfriend and was ready to begin a…
The Murder of Eugenio DeLeon Vega (Connecticut)
Oct 30, 2025
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 enduring questions about who really…
The Murder of Craig "Cooley" Jackman (Vermont)
Oct 23, 2025
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 his family searching for answers that…