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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...
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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 ans...
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 stor...
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,...
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,...
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...
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 wi...
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 endin...
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. Somew...
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 familia...
INTRODUCING: 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 Wool...
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 b...
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 hav...
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...
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 befo...
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,...
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...
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...
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 raise...
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 stat...
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, a...
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...
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 troubl...
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.
...
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 i...
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...
INTRODUCING: Chameleon
Face Plant: The Woman With 1,000 Boyfriends — What's it like to have your image used as the bait in thousands of online romance scams? This is what ha...
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 wi...
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 deca...
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 q...
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 mor...
Introducing: 13th Juror
Go inside the investigation of the murder of Liberty German and Abigail Williams—two bright, beloved girls from Delphi, Indiana—on the first episode o...
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 t...
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 the...
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,...
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...
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 shel...
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...
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 crosse...
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 dro...
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 did...