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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.
PodSkip has analyzed 21 episodes of Dark Downeast, averaging 5.7 ads per episode (11% of runtime).
The Disappearance of Melanie Melanson (Massachusetts)
Aug 27, 2026
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 known to be with her gave conflicting…
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The Murder of Judith Whitney (New Hampshire)
Aug 20, 2026
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 can’t quite turn suspicion into…
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The Disappearance of Edward Sprenkle Dubbs Jr. (Connecticut)
Aug 13, 2026
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 Jr., he seems to vanish somewhere between…
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The Disappearance of Dr. Margaret Kilcoyne (Massachusetts)
Aug 06, 2026
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 carrying the weight of a life’s work, a…
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UNSOLVED: The Disappearance of Ryan Blagojevic (Maine)
Jul 30, 2026
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 existed back then are either gone now or…
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The Murder of Victoria Cushman (Rhode Island)
Jul 23, 2026
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 she worked. For years, her family waited…
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The Murder of Trish Haynes (New Hampshire)
Jul 16, 2026
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 quietly recovered something from a nearby…
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The Murder of Valerie Tieman (Maine)
Jul 09, 2026
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 maybe even a version of the story where…
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The Murder of Martha Brailsford (Massachusetts)
Jul 02, 2026
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 and humidity, that wasn’t unusual…
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The Murder of Estella Brantley (Connecticut)
Jun 25, 2026
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 have heard her final moments, with…
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The Murder of Rose Marie Moniz (Massachusetts)
Jun 18, 2026
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 waited decades to hear.
Grief and…
The Murder of Pamela Brown (Vermont)
Jun 11, 2026
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 that noise, an 18-year-old woman…
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The Murder of Kathleen Flynn (Connecticut)
Jun 04, 2026
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 when she was attacked and killed. Her case…
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INTRODUCING: CounterClock Season 8
May 28, 2026
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, Sarah Szafranski, and Jennifer Bishop were…
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The Disappearance of Patrick Merrill (New Hampshire)
May 28, 2026
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 knew he would have called if he’d left…
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The Suspicious Death of Phil Williams Jr. (Maine)
May 21, 2026
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 stopped. She carried that explanation with her…
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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…
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…