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Dark Downeast

Dark Downeast

Audiochuck 274 Episodes Jul 23, 2026

Dark Downeast is a true crime podcast focusing on cases from Maine and New England. Hosted by investigative journalist Kylie Low, it covers unsolved homicides, undetermined deaths, and unexplained disappearances. The show features interviews with family members, detectives, and sources, aiming to honor victims and bring attention to unsolved cases.

Episodes

The Murder of Victoria Cushman (Rhode Island)
The Murder of Victoria Cushman (Rhode Island) Jul 23, 2026 00:41:55 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 for answers and eventually, the case seemed to have them: a suspect known to the case from day one, who investigators said had motive to end Vickie’s life. The evidence was circumstantial, but it was c
The Murder of Trish Haynes (New Hampshire)
The Murder of Trish Haynes (New Hampshire) Jul 16, 2026 00:41:58 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 pond, but for months, they said almost nothing about what they had found or how it related to the missing persons case. Behind the scenes, Trish’s family was living with a very different reality. They h
The Murder of Valerie Tieman (Maine)
The Murder of Valerie Tieman (Maine) Jul 9, 2026 00:43:28 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 Valerie had simply walked away from a life that had become too painful.  Her husband, Luc Tieman, was a wounded military veteran, a man whose service and struggles shaped how people first understood him. B
The Murder of Martha Brailsford (Massachusetts)
The Murder of Martha Brailsford (Massachusetts) Jul 2, 2026 00:36:14 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. Martha knew the water, and in Salem Willows, boats were part of the everyday landscape. There was no reason to think a simple afternoon sail would become anything else. But when Martha didn’t come home that
The Murder of Estella Brantley (Connecticut)
The Murder of Estella Brantley (Connecticut) Jun 25, 2026 00:38:25 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 evidence that would one day matter more than anyone could have known when it was first collected. But for years, Estella’s case stayed unresolved, folded into a larger city-wide pattern of deadly attacks o
The Murder of Rose Marie Moniz (Massachusetts)
The Murder of Rose Marie Moniz (Massachusetts) Jun 18, 2026 00:36:20 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 justice don’t always move at the same pace. Grief looks for truth, meaning, and someone to answer for what was taken. The justice system looks for proof, and proof has to survive questions, strategy, doubt, a
The Murder of Pamela Brown (Vermont)
The Murder of Pamela Brown (Vermont) Jun 11, 2026 00:36:35 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 disappeared. In the days that followed, investigators tried to make sense of what little they had: fragments of sightings, possible suspects, conflicting leads, and tests that seemed to narrow the field. But t
The Murder of Kathleen Flynn (Connecticut)
The Murder of Kathleen Flynn (Connecticut) Jun 4, 2026 00:46:46 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 became one of the state’s most well-known cold cases, the kind people never stopped talking about, and the kind investigators kept returning to as forensic science moved forward.  In 2019, after decad
INTRODUCING: CounterClock Season 8
INTRODUCING: CounterClock Season 8 May 28, 2026 00:04:54 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 executed and the killer escaped leaving only one survivor. In Season 8 of CounterClock, host and investigative journalist Delia D’Ambra covers the Lane Bryant Murders and goes further into the case tha
The Disappearance of Patrick Merrill (New Hampshire)
The Disappearance of Patrick Merrill (New Hampshire) May 28, 2026 00:40:13 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 on his own. But he was gone, and the man believed to be with him on the night he disappeared had a long history of run-ins with the law. What started as a missing persons investigation soon stretched a
The Suspicious Death of Phil Williams Jr. (Maine)
The Suspicious Death of Phil Williams Jr. (Maine) May 21, 2026 00:50:53 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 as she tried to rebuild her life around it. But sometimes the truth doesn’t disappear. It just waits. In 2016, a stranger showed up with questions about what really happened inside a school in rural Ma
The Murder of Carol Ann Barlow (Rhode Island)
The Murder of Carol Ann Barlow (Rhode Island) May 14, 2026 00:35:22 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 the kind that often gets explained quickly and filed away just as fast.  But sometimes, there are details that do not quite fit. They can be easy to overlook in the moment. A position that does not make

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