The Murder of Matthew Margolies (Connecticut)
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When 13-year old Matthew Margolies didn’t come home for supper on the night of August 31, 1984, po...
The Murder of Jon Pownall (Maine)
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
MAINE, 1973: Just months into production of a new and exciting project, film director Jon Pownall wa...
UPDATE: The Murders of David Nixon & Steven Ray Johnson (Maine)
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A special update to this week’s episode, Murder on Goose Rocks Beach, covering the cases of David ...
The Murders of David Nixon & Steven Ray Johnson (Maine)
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
MAINE, 1987: On the night of June 8, 1987, David Nixon had just hung up the phone with his father. ...
The Murder of Jimmy Stone (Connecticut)
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
CONNECTICUT, 2018: On the night of May 18, 2018, 36-year old James “Jimmy” Stone Jr. was loading...
The Murder of Patricia Moreno (Massachusetts)
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
MASSACHUSETTS, 1991: On July 20th, 1991, 17-year-old Patricia Moreno sat on the fire escape at her f...
The Disappearance of Ralph Jean-Marie (Vermont)
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
VERMONT, 2020: On April 15, 2020, 38-year old Ralph “Rizz” Jean-Marie was reported missing from ...
The Victims of the Last Call Killer (New York)
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NEW YORK CITY, 1990s: On May 28, 2001, after an eight year long investigation spanning three states,...
The Murder of Frederic Alan Spencer (Maine)
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
MAINE, 1973: In April of 1973, the vibrant college town of Orono, Maine was shattered by a shocking ...
The Murders of Laura Kempton & Tammy Little (New Hampshire)
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
PORTSMOUTH, 1981 & 1982: In just over a year span during the early 1980s in Portsmouth, New Hampshir...
The Murder of Raymond "Butch" Weed (Maine)
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
MAINE, 2003: On the night of December 23, 2003, two friends dropping off Christmas gifts at the home...
The Murder of Anita Piteau, The Huntington Beach Jane Doe (California)
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On March 14, 1968, kids playing in the oil fields of Huntington Beach, California discovered the bru...
The Murder of Anne "Nancy" Payson Holt (Maine)
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
MAINE, 1976: Anne Payson Holt, better known as Nancy, was almost 80-years old, but not quite yet. He...
The Disappearance of Kristopher Bryan Lewis (Massachusetts)
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
BOSTON, 2014: On February 4, 2014, 13-year old Kristopher Bryan Lewis got off the school bus at his ...
The Murder of Louise Chaput (New Hampshire)
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NEW HAMPSHIRE, 2001: It was late fall of 2001 and Louise Chaput was looking forward to her weekend p...
The Murders Aboard the Herbert Fuller (Massachusetts)
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ATLANTIC OCEAN, 1896: The chilled, windy air of the Atlantic Ocean surrounded the ship past midnight...
The Murder of Charlotte A. Dunn (Maine)
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
MAINE, 1971: The quiet of a dark late spring evening in Bangor, Maine was interrupted by frightened ...
Sylvia Baker (3 of Spades, Connecticut) from The Deck
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sylvia Baker, 28, went downstairs on July 17th, 1982 to take out the trash. Sylvia never returned to...
The Disappearance of Bryan Nisenfeld (Rhode Island)
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On February 6, 1997, 18-year old Bryan Nisenfeld sat in his afternoon literature class at Roger Will...
The Murder of Roy Weber (Rhode Island)
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
RHODE ISLAND, 2003: On Christmas morning in 2003, a security guard on the Johnson & Wales Harborside...
The Suspicious Deaths of Janet & Stephen Dow (New Hampshire)
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1982: On December 10, 1982, a car sat in a ditch engulfed in a furious blaze. Janet D...
The Disappearance of Brenda LaCombe (Massachusetts)
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
MASSACHUSETTS, 1982: For over 40 years, the family of 19-year old Brenda LaCombe has wondered what h...
The Murder of George Jodoin (New Hampshire)
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NEW HAMPSHIRE, 2001: On December 27, 2001, a friend arrived at 50-year old George Jodoin’s farmhou...
The Murder of Jane Britton (Massachusetts)
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
MASSACHUSETTS, 1969: It was the morning of January 7, 1969 and 23-year old Harvard University gradua...
Introducing The Fall Line: “Sherry or Cheryl” Jane Doe
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In March of 1976, a young woman was discovered, with no obvious trauma, in the Harpeth River in Nash...
The Murder of Margaret Pizio (Massachusetts)
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
MASSACHUSETTS, 1979: It was August 20, 1979 and 35-year old Margaret Pizio was clocking into her ove...
The Disappearance of Reina Morales Rojas (Massachusetts)
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
MASSACHUSETTS, 2022: On November 26, 2022, 41-year old Reina Morales Rojas got into a car in East Bo...
The Murders of Diane Compagna & Anne Psaradelis (New Hampshire)
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1973: On July 11, 1973, 15-year old Diane Compagna swung her beach bag over her shoul...
The Murder of Bessie Selek (Maine)
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
MAINE, 1999: On the night of April 20, 1999, 41-year old Bessie Selek was walking along Route 202 ne...
The Murder of Rita Curran Part 2 (Vermont)
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
VERMONT, 1971: Rita Curran and her family waited over 50 years for closure in her unsolved homicide,...
The Murder of Rita Curran Part 1 (Vermont)
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
VERMONT, 1971: After more than 50 years, 24-year Rita Curran's murder finally has closure. In this t...
The Suspicious Death of Denise Scott Ramsey (Maine)
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
MAINE, 2021: On Mother’s Day weekend in 2021, skeletal remains were discovered in a shed on privat...
The Murder of Angela Belisle (Vermont)
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
VERMONT, 1981: During the earliest moments of the investigation, the death of 35-year old Angela Bel...
The Murder of Ronald Rogers Part 2 (Vermont)
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
VERMONT, 1971: In a homicide investigation, determining the identity of the victim is an obvious and...
The Murder of Ronald Rogers Part 1 (Vermont)
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
VERMONT, 1971: It was 10:30 p.m. the night before the 4th of July in 1971 when a family returning to...
The Murder of Helen Jewett (New York)
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NEW YORK CITY, 1836: In the early morning hours of April 10, 1836, the madam of a New York City brot...
The Still Unsolved Murder of Darien Richardson (Maine)
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
MAINE, 2010: In January of 2023, yet another year passed without justice for Darien Richardson and h...
The Murders of Jack & Florence Bettencourt (Maine)
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LIBERTY, MAINE 1973: As the wind and rain picked up on a dark December night in Liberty, Maine, Joaq...
The Suspicious Death of Morgan Patten Part 2 (North Carolina)
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Steve and Renee Patten learned that their daughter, Morgan Patten, was killed in a car accident...
The Suspicious Death of Morgan Patten Part 1 (North Carolina)
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan Renee Patten was supposed to be spending a weekend with her fiancé celebrating their engagem...
The Murders of Sandra Valade, Pamela Mason & Rena Paquette (New Hampshire)
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since February 1964, rumors have swirled across New Hampshire about the death of Rena Paquette. It h...
The Murders of Carrie Moss & Sonya Moore (New Hampshire)
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On July 25, 1989, 14-year old Carrie Moss, wearing a one-piece swimsuit, stone-washed jeans, and a w...
The Murder of Susan Taraskiewicz (Massachusetts)
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Police first thought Susan Taraskiewicz’s murder to be a random act of violence, but soon the inve...
The Haunted Lighthouses of Seguin & Boon Island (Maine)
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As beautiful as they are, lighthouses have a dark side, too. The legend and lore surrounding the lig...
The Murder of Judith Flagg (Maine)
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
FAYETTE, 1983: When Ted Flagg returned home from work on a cold day in January 1983, he was not warm...
The Disappearances of Tina & Bethany Sinclair (New Hampshire)
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In February of 2001, the calm in small town Chesterfield, New Hampshire was disrupted by an investig...
The Murder of Tammy Dickson (Maine)
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
SOUTH PORTLAND, 1994: 22-year old Tammy Dickson was preparing for a new start in life. She was a rec...
The Disappearance of Robert "Bobby" Desmond (Maine)
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Robert "Bobby" Desmond's case is the oldest on the Maine State Police Unsolved Missing Persons case ...
UPDATED: The Murder of Leslie Spellman (Maine)
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve heard Leslie Spellman’s story on Dark Downeast before. I was initially compelled to tell ...
A Conversation with Ashley Flowers, Host of Crime Junkie
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ashley Flowers is the creator and host of the Crime Junkie podcast and founder and CEO of audiochuck...
The Cons of Mair Smith Part 2 (Maine)
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Would you know how to spot a scam in your life before it was too late?For years, Johnathan Walton di...
The Cons of Mair Smith Part 1 (Maine)
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Johnathan Walton hosted a wine and cheese night in his Los Angeles apartment in 2013, he couldn...
The Murders of Dominic Kirmil and Irvin Hilton (Massachusetts)
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He committed his first murder at 15-years old, ending the life of an innocent shopkeeper as he and h...
The Murder of Kenneth Zernicke (Maine)
04 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Zernicke Holmes left work on the night of September 24, 2015 to find her phone flooded with ...
The Death of Elmer McCurdy (Maine)
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Strung up in the corner of a roadside amusement park fun house was the figure of a man coated so man...
The Deaths of John Chakalos & Linda Carman Part 3 (Connecticut)
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
ACTIVE CASE, PART 3: In October of 2016, about a month after he was plucked from a life raft after a...
The Deaths of John Chakalos & Linda Carman Part 2 (Connecticut)
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
ACTIVE CASE, PART 2: Nathan Carman was 23-years old when his boat the Chicken Pox sank during a fish...
The Deaths of John Chakalos & Linda Carman Part 1 (Connecticut)
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
ACTIVE CASE, PART 1: When the daughter of wealthy real estate developer John Chakalos walked into he...
The Murder of Blanche Kimball (Maine)
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AUGUSTA, ME 1976: The murder of 70-year old Augusta resident Blanche Kimball remained a cold case fo...
ANNOUNCEMENT: Missing Kim
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Missing Kim, a Dark Downeast mini-documentary is out now at missingkim.com.If you have information t...
The Murder of Florence Small (New Hampshire)
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The fire horn rang out in Ossipee, New Hampshire around 10 p.m. on September 28, 1916. The blaze at ...
The Serial Killings of Albert Flick (Maine)
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Albert Flick was released from his first prison sentence for killing his wife, he restarted his...
The Disappearance of Ellen Choate (Maine)
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NEWPORT, MAINE 1975: Ellen Choate was ready to start her new job. So ready, that she hopped a train ...
The Murder of Robert McKee (Maine)
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was just before 4 a.m. on June 20, 1975 in Newport, Maine. The sky was just warming with hints of...
The Disappearance of Judith Leo-Coneys Part 2 (Vermont)
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was described as one of Vermont’s most frustrating cold cases. A dedicated mother and beloved s...
The Disappearance of Judith Leo-Coneys Part 1 (Vermont)
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
VERMONT, 1979: When the vehicle of Judith Leo-Coneys turned up at a junkyard in Roxbury, Vermont, it...
Inside the State Police Unsolved Homicide Unit (Maine)
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Semper Memento. Always Remember. Those words guide the work of the Maine State Police Unsolved Homic...
The Murder of Dorthea Burke (Maine)
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
STOCKTON SPRINGS, 1984: Nearly four decades is a long time to wait for justice. In the case of Dorth...
The Disappearance of Russell Bean (New Hampshire)
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1978: When State Police investigators started digging in March of 1988, it had been 1...
The Wrongful Conviction of Isaac Knapper (Maine)
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In April 1979, the lives of two teenagers from two very different parts of the country were inextric...
The Murder of Lila Drew (Maine)
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
MASARDIS, MAINE 1977: The impact that murder has on a family and a community is profound and far-rea...
UPDATE: The Murder of Sophie Sergie (Alaska)
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA 1993: After more than two decades of searching for answers in the unsolved homicid...
The Disappearance of Jesus De La Cruz (Massachusetts)
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS 1996: 6-year old Jesus De La Cruz was out playing with a friend on September 28,...
The Disappearance of Kitty Wardwell (Maine)
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
DEDHAM, MAINE 1983: For nearly three decades, the family of Kitty Collins Wardwell hoped that the wh...
The Suspicious Death of Shawn O'Brien (Rhode Island)
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
RHODE ISLAND, 2006: Was it a seizure or did somebody murder Shawn O'Brien? His daughter, Natalia St....
The Murder of Sophie Sergie Part 2 (Alaska)
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
26 years is a long time to wait for answers in an unsolved homicide, but in 2019 the family of 20-ye...
The Murder of Sophie Sergie, Part 1 (Alaska)
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA 1993: Sophie Sergie was a first generation college student from a small village in...
The Murder of Douglas J. Parent (Maine)
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
WALDOBORO, MAINE 1983: Who killed well-known Waldoboro figure Douglas J. Parent? And why? His case h...
The Murder of Sean Conway (Maine)
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
CORNISH, MAINE 1991: Sean Conway's family has been waiting 31 years to learn what happened to their ...
The Murder of Jason Bass & Disappearance of Adam Emery (Rhode Island)
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
RHODE ISLAND, 1990: They were sitting in their car eating clam chowder when another vehicle smashed ...
The Murder of Katherine Murphy (Maine)
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
WATERVILLE, MAINE 1971: Katherine Murphy was a freshman at Colby College, continuing her family lega...
The Murder of Michael T. Connolly (Maine)
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
PORTLAND, 1930: The early morning had been foggy and dark, and the high tide came in at 3:17 a.m. It...
The Suspicious Death of Alexie Adams (Maine)
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
ORONO, MAINE 2018: A young woman in a college town was found dead in the snow. From the first minute...
The Murder of Jack Bevins, Part 2 (Maine)
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
OGUNQUIT, 1990: When York Police Detectives found the body of John “Jack” Bevins on his bathroom...
The Murder of Jack Bevins Part 1 (Maine)
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
OGUNQUIT, 1990: This case will challenge you. It will raise questions in your mind about consequence...
The Murder of Thomas Napier (Maine)
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
SACO, 1993: Thomas Napier did not have an easy life. His childhood years were plagued with pain and ...
The Suspicious Death of William Costello (Massachusetts)
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
MASSACHUSETTS, 1933: When Captain William Costello was found unresponsive on his bathroom floor, the...
The Ghost Town Beneath Flagstaff Lake (Maine)
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On July 4, 1949, the villages of Flagstaff and Dead River came together, with current residents and ...
The Suspicious Death of Sally Maynard Moran (Maine)
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
QUESTIONABLE, 1953: Sally Maynard Moran left for a walk to the far side of Monhegan Island on the ev...
The Suspicious Death of Wanda Mitchell (Maine)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
UNDETERMINED, 1980: She was one day shy of her 15th birthday when Wanda Mitchell ran away from home....
The Suspicious Death of Marcia Moore (Washington)
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
FROM AWAY, 1979: It took over 10 years for remains found in the woods of Stacyville, Maine to finall...
The Suspicious Death of Christopher Roof, the Stacyville John Doe (Maine)
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
MAINE JOHN DOE, 2010: For years, he was known only by the name stitched into the blue and white stri...
The Disappearance of Angel Torres, Part 2 (Maine)
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine your son, imagine any person you love, just disappears. No viable leads, no physical evidenc...
The Disappearance of Angel Torres Part 1 (Maine)
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
MAINE MISSING PERSON, 1999: It's been 22 years, and Ramona and Narciso Torres are still waiting for ...
The Disappearance of Grace and Gracie Reapp (Vermont)
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
DISAPPEARANCE/HOMICIDE, 1978: Grace Reapp was a devoted mother of three children, but one June after...
The Murder of Crystal Perry (Maine)
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
BRIDGTON, MAINE: 12-year old Sarah Perry was asleep in bed when an attacker took her mother's life. ...
BONUS: The Murders of Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki (Massachusetts)
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A special conversation with Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan, authors of The Babysitter: My Summers w...
The Murders of Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki (Massachusetts)
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
CAPE COD, 1969: It was supposed to be a fun and relaxing girl's weekend in Provincetown for Patricia...
The Murder of Robert Joyal Part 2 (Maine)
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
His fresh start was cut short. Robert Joyal’s life ended in the middle of a chaotic scene. Though ...
The Murder of Robert Joyal Part 1 (Maine)
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
UNSOLVED MAINE HOMICIDE, 1998: Marc Joyal-Myers was 11-years old when he lost his big brother, 18-ye...